Sonnet 116

The speaker makes some really powerful statements in this sonnet, especially in the couplet. The entire sonnet is basically the speaker stating that no  matter how much time passes, even when beauty fades, true love still remains. And when people who love each other spend time apart, their love does not fade, but will last until the end of the world as we know it. The couplet then states that if all of things that he said about love in the sonnet are not true and can be proven wrong, then no person has ever experienced love, even if they believe they have.