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Love Quote by Jim Carrey

"A lot of good love can happen in ten years"

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A lot can hide inside that casually hopeful sentence, and that is why it lands. Jim Carrey frames love like weather: it "can happen", as if it arrives on its own schedule, not as a trophy you win by grinding hard enough. The phrasing is deliberately unromantic. "A lot" is blunt, almost comic in its vagueness, and "good love" sounds like something you order off a menu. That everyday diction is the point: Carrey strips away the grand, soulmate mythology and sells the more useful idea that tenderness is cumulative, built out of ordinary time.

The ten-year window does double work. It is long enough to imply real stakes - seasons of change, losses, reinventions - but short enough to reject the melodrama of "forever". You can hear the subtext of someone who has lived through public relationships and private resets: love is not just a lightning strike; it is a chapter, and chapters end without negating what happened inside them.

There is also an undercurrent of permission. In a culture trained to panic about timelines - dating app churn, marriage milestones, the anxiety of "wasted years" - Carrey sneaks in a counter-metric: measure love by its quality and density, not by whether it lasts indefinitely. The line invites you to treat a decade not as a countdown to commitment or failure, but as a legitimate container for joy, care, and growth. That is a surprisingly mature thought packaged as an offhand remark, which is very Carrey: the comedian's voice delivering a quietly serious worldview.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Carrey, Jim. (2026, January 17). A lot of good love can happen in ten years. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-good-love-can-happen-in-ten-years-31939/

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Carrey, Jim. "A lot of good love can happen in ten years." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-good-love-can-happen-in-ten-years-31939/.

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"A lot of good love can happen in ten years." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-good-love-can-happen-in-ten-years-31939/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jim Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Actor from Canada.

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