Love Quote by Richard Lewis

Love, here, is treated less like a grand moral force and more like a limited-time offer with terrible customer service. Richard Lewis compresses the supposed peak human emotion into "two and a half days", a punchline that works because it sabotages the sentimental script while still admitting the high is real. He’s not saying love is fake; he’s saying the part we call love, in the romantic-comedy sense, is chemically and narratively unsustainable.

The specificity is the engine. Not "a few days", not "a week" - two and a half. That half-day is where Lewis lives: the comedown, the first hint of irritability, the moment your brain stops projecting a perfect person onto a normal one. The line smuggles in a whole worldview about attachment: infatuation is vivid, clarifying, almost religious; intimacy is where the bills arrive. By putting a stopwatch on ecstasy, he turns romance into observational comedy's favorite subject: disappointment that arrives right on schedule.

Context matters because Lewis's persona is anxious, self-interrogating, allergic to delusion. His comedy often treats happiness as something that briefly visits before the mind resumes its regular programming of worry and skepticism. "Glorious" is doing double duty - it’s sincere, and it’s a setup for the inevitable drop. The intent isn’t to sneer at love but to puncture the cultural expectation that it should stay euphoric. If you laugh, it’s partly recognition, partly relief: someone finally said the quiet part about the honeymoon phase out loud, with a calendar reminder attached.