Lost Love Quotes are words of wisdom, hope, and inspiration that can help us through the difficult times of heartbreak. These quotes have been shared by people from all walks of life who have experienced the pain and sorrow of lost love. Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging lost love quotes, lost love sayings, and lost love proverbs.
Lost Love Quotes
1. They continued to ask me what pain felt like. I looked them in the eye and told them that true pain is having to bury your one and only child.
2. I know that’s what people say– you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, you’ll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him. ― Betty Smith
3. Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. ― Brian Celio
4. I woke up from that beautiful dream and found myself living in a reality far worse than my scariest nightmares.
5. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. ― Alphonse de Lamartine
6. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. – Algernon Charles Swinburne
7. I thought I loved him, but he had to break my heart for me to know what true love really is.
8. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
9. I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life. – Mona Simpson
10. Trying to forget someone is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
11. I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. – Nicholas Sparks
12. Losing you was never a part of the plan. We were supposed to be together, forever. But I lost you anyway because things do not go always according to the plan. I accept this loss, and I am moving on, but I will never stop loving you. Maybe someone will replace you, but you will always be the one I loved the most.
13. I just wish I could lose these feelings as fast as I lost you.
14. There’s this place in me where your fingertips still rest… your kisses still linger and your whispers softly echo… It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
15. I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life. ― Plato
16. I was faced with the hardest decision I will ever make in my life, to let go and move on.
17. Love is the most beautiful and pure thing a person can have. And losing such a pure thing can be a tragedy. But it is the way it is. Everything you have is temporary, nothing is going to be with you forever. The sooner you accept that, the better it is for you.
18. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
19. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been. – John Greenleaf Whittier
20. I looked at the house with such great pain. Home. It is a sweet and foreign word to me now. Without you in it, what used to be a home is now nothing but a house.
21. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. ― Hermann Hesse
Loss and Love Messages for Her or Him
22. Sometimes things need to be let go of. If it’s meant to be, you’ll find each other again.
23. I have loved and I have lost and I’m starting to believe; it’s okay. Sometimes what we “think” is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly “meant” for us. And if I have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; I am content in knowing the greatest love I will ever experience, hasn’t even begun yet. ― Nikki Rowe
24. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? ~Terry Pratchett
25. We can never let the pain of loss consume us. Life ahead of us demands so much more than this pathetic self of us. Try to find your happiness in what you have.
26. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, / Men were deceivers ever, / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never. – William Shakespeare
27. Sometimes, some things are meant to end. It is necessary to start the new things in your life. Same rules apply to love. When love disappears from a relationship, there is no reason to keep it. Just because it existed once, is not a good reason to drag a relationship.
28. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. – J.S.B. Morse
29. Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. – Faraaz Kazi
30. I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it. ― Sam Worthington
31. I woke up from that beautiful dream and found myself living in reality far worse than my scariest nightmares.
32. Love is timeless and everlasting. However, no matter how immortal the feeling may be, there are just some things that aren’t meant to be. And sometimes, you have no choice but to move on and let go.
33. When you lose someone, there is no one to blame. Not even yourself. It can only make a loss more painful and longer. The loss is a loss as long as you consider it a loss. But once you make peace with it and let it be in the past, everything becomes easier.
34. Would I have been better off if I never knew you? I do not know, and I find myself not wanting to know at all.
Quotes About Lost Love
35. I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ― The Wonder Years
36. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. ― Edgar Allen Poe
37. It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. – Charlotte Featherstone
38. One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your heart.
39. There is no love without suffering. – Arielle Dombasle
40. The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most.
41. In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ― Stendhal
42. When you left me alone, did you even think about me for one? Did you think about how lost I was? Did you think about how much pain I must be in? It would hurt me the most is your answer will be a ‘yes’. It is because if you really thought about me, and left me anyway, that was a real cruelty.
43. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
44. It hurts the most when you can actually feel your heartbreaking.
45. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
46. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ― Jean de La Fontaine
47. Your memory feels like home to me. So, whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ― Ranata Suzuki
48. When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. – Unknown
49. I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone. You just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. ― Alyson Noel
Famous Losing Love Quotes
50. Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
51. I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. – Frank Zappa
52. The pain started years ago, but I’d lived with it for so long at that point that I’d accepted it as an inevitable part of me. – Ashley D. Wallis
53. Death is like a thief that sneaks in at night. You never know that something special has been taken away until you wake up to nothingness.
54. I wish I had the guts to walk away and forget about what we had. But, I can’t because I know you won’t come after me, and I guess that’s what hurts the most.
55. Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
56. Do not fear, sweet child, and let yourself, love. Do not be afraid of the pain of loss, for the sweetness of love far outweighs it.
57. Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don’t believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn’t work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship. ~Bipasha Basu
58. I think the worst feeling in the world is knowing that someone you used to talk to everyday doesn’t care about you anymore. ― Anmol Andore
59. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. – Steve Maraboli
60. Sometimes we choose to be in pain, you know why? because we held ourselves countable for the loss of love. Our brains program themselves into thinking that it was our fault. And the only way to let go of this pain is by forgiving our very own selves.
61. There is no greater joy that can ever compare to love as there is no greater pain that can ever compare to loss.
62. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
63. Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind.
64. The pain of losing you, no matter how much it breaks my heart, reminds me that once upon a time, I loved you with everything I had.
65. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Sad Quotes for lost loved ones from remembrance
66. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. ~William Shakespeare
67. My love, you left me here in the dark, to taste the pain of loss. But guess what? I found my way through that darkness, I found a light in that darkness. Now I know the taste of pain, but I am immune to it, it cannot hurt me anymore, and all credits goes to you. Thank you for making me stronger, my love.
68. Losing your love can be tragic. Bearing that kind of loss can be hard, but it happens more than we can imagine. Love is not always meant to be found. This section contains the quotes, messages, and sayings about losing your love.
69. It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
70. Love is timeless; love is immortal. Even if you lose someone to something as permanent as death, the love you once had will never fade away. It will caress you every day, reminding you of the everlasting sweetness of honey.
71. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ― Samuel Butler
72. The hottest love has the coldest end. – Socrates
73. You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. ~John Green
74. The worst feeling in the world is when you know that you both love each other but still can’t be together.
75. I’ve always wondered what losing a limb would feel like. I stopped wondering the moment you left me for good.
76. Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life. ― Jennette Lee
77. How do you go on knowing that the one thing that keeps your heart beating is forever lost to you?
78. A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals. – C. Elizabeth
79. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken-and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. – Margaret Mitchell
80. Losing your love is never one’s choice, but accepting the loss and moving on is.
81. You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. ― John Green
82. I try to live my life even without you with it. I go to our favorite spots, our favorite places, trying to live on. Instead, I find myself living in the memories that haunt me, always and forever.
Deep Lost Love Quotes
83. Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.
84. Sometimes you have to allow yourself to lose something great in order for something better to come in your life.
85. I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.
86. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
87. When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. ― Agnetha Faltskog
88. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. ― Steve Maraboli
89. You know you love someone when the idea of losing him is enough to give you the taste of the most hurtful pain in the world. Value your loved ones.
90. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving
91. In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ~Stendhal
92. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. – Mignon McLaughlin
93. I will never truly get over your loss, but there is nothing left to do but move on and make way for a bright and new day.
94. I should know enough about a loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone – you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. – Alyson Noel
95. My student once asked me what the saddest word in the world was. I looked her in the eye and told her the most painful word ever said to me, Goodbye.
96. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – Anais Nin
97. Its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
98. Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. ― Hermann Hesse
99. After you left me, I was stuck wondering where I should go to start anew. A voice in the wind told me that maybe I didn’t have to start over again. Perhaps I just had to walk through this path and apply the lessons losing you has taught me.
100. When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. ― George R.R. Martin
101. Never let loss decide, it only tends to make the wrong decisions.
102. Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don’t deserve me. They’re right, you don’t deserve me, but I deserve you.
103. If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
Love, loss, and redemption Quotes & Statuses with Images
104. When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it? – Shannon L. Alder
105. In this world, only the people who have most, lose the most. That is why I am afraid of love. Too much love scared the hell out of me. I stay in the constant fear of losing it. And the fear of future can ruin your present.
106. A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
107. Sometimes I lie on our bed, eyes open, heart pounding, wondering when I will fully comprehend that you are never going to lie here beside me once more
108. Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. – Barbra Streisand
109. No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.
110. A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals. ~C. Elizabeth
111. Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? ― Audrey Niffenegger
112. Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
113. You cannot truly let go until you accept that despite the pain he caused, he brought you far greater and unimaginable joy.
114. Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.
115. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Kahlil Gibran
116. Once you accept the loss, no one can stop you from moving on.
117. We came alone, and we will go alone. Alone is all we have. Understand it, and embrace it.
118. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight. ― Lana Del Rey
119. It is always hard to lose somebody that you love. The loss leaves a hole in your heart that can never be repaired, only covered up.
120. My student once asked me what the saddest word in the world was. I looked her in the eye and told her the most painful word that was ever said to me, Goodbye.
121. Still hoping we ride off into the sunset together. – Andy Atticus
122. If this is my heartache, then let it be mine to endure. Permit me to feel it in its entirety. Don’t tell me how much of you I am allowed to love. ― Lang Leav
123. Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. ~Brian Celio
Encouraging Quotes About Lost Love
124. Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.
125. Love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.
126. Loss is a part of life, and you know what? Life is not fair at all. It does not care whether it is taking something important away from us. It just takes it, and the worst thing is that, it does not even need our permission to do so.
127. When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth. – Sienna Miller
128. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ― Margaret Mitchell
129. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight. – Lana Del Rey
130. Losing you left a bitter taste in my mouth. But whenever I try to wash the taste away, the lingering sweetness of our time together keeps me from doing it. I would endure every bitter taste if only to taste bits and pieces of the sweetness that once overwhelmed me.
131. To fully appreciate the wonders of joy and love, you have to also appreciate the horror of pain and loss.
132. It’s so hard to go back to the places that was once ours. When I look at them, it seems like nothing has changed. But deep in my heart, I know the truth. With you can from my life, everything has and forever will be changed.
133. The phantom pain of your sweet embrace continues to haunt me even when I’m asleep.
134. Though I may have lost you, you will always have a space in the most beautiful part of my damaged soul.
135. The greatest weakness of most humans Is their hesitancy to tell others, How much they love them While they’re alive.
136. There is a comfort in the strength of love; Would overset the brain or break the heart. ― William Wordsworth
137. A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals. ― C. Elizabeth
138. I don’t think, until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up. ~Felicity Kendal
139. People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime. ― Ethel Person
140. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. ― J.S.B. Morse
141. To fully appreciate the wonders of joy and love, you also must understand the horror of pain and loss.
142. She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Quotes About Moving on From Lost Love
143. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
144. There is a comfort in the strength of love; / Would overset the brain, or break the heart. – William Wordsworth
145. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ― Clive Barker
146. They say, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ If that is true, then I guess mine go deeper than pain. There are no words to choose from losing you. I guess I found out too late, and now all I feel is a heartbreak that only hurts when I breathe.
147. When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So, go back and fight to keep it. ― Ian McEwan
148. Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
149. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. ― Dylan Thomas
150. It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. ― Charlotte Featherstone
151. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ~Washington Irving
152. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ― Dr. Seuss
153. True love never dies as we see in our eyes, only when we let go that we can truly say goodbye.
154. When you left, you took a chunk of my ever bleeding heart with you.
155. A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn’t make sense.
156. The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all. ― Alessandra Torre
157. What should I do without you? I cannot imagine.
158. You always told me that someday I had to prepare myself for the day when you would never come back. I tried, I really did, but nothing could ever prepare me for the day it actually happened.
159. A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.
160. Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now. ~Nina Guilbeau
161. It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ~Laurence J. Peter
162. It is funny how losing someone, who was never yours can hurt you so bad. But the best part is, it does not have to hurt that much. You have the power to stop it, you just have to unleash that power.
163. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
164. The process of losing someone does not happen all at once. It comes in bits and pieces, creeping up on you slowly but surely. It’s only when the gaping hole of loss overwhelms you that you fully comprehend the devastating permanence of losing someone to the hands of death.
165. You never truly get over losing someone. You may forgive, you may forget. But you can never stop the memories of sweetness and joy from creeping in when you least expect it to.
166. It’s so hard to go back to the places that were once ours. When I look at them, it seems like nothing has changed. But deep in my heart, I know the truth. With you can from my life, everything has and forever will be changed.
167. When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth. ― Sienna Miller
168. When you lose someone, you have to accept that grief and love cannot be separated. For when you reminisce the joys of your sweet love, you will be awakened by the suffering you have tried so hard to keep at bay.
169. To welcome great beginnings, you must welcome the possible sad endings that come with it.
170. Do not blame love for the pain. Love is such a beautiful thing. Blame the person who turned love into pain for you. That person is to be held responsible, not love.
171. When you lose someone you love, you can’t stop loving him. The feeling only grows stronger.
172. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. ~William Thackeray
173. You are here with me, sitting right in front of me. But I am afraid that I might lose you. It is because all the heart touching love stories have tragic ends. And they lived happily ever after does not exist in real life.
174. There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. ― Ranata Suzuki
Quotes About Lost Love
175. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. – Toni Morrison
176. Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. ~Ernest Hemingway
177. You cannot see loss; you cannot hear loss. There is only one thing you can do, and that is to feel it.
178. No greater joy can ever compare to love, as no greater pain can ever compare to loss.
179. I’m almost over you; that’s what I keep telling myself to make me sleep better at night.
180. The hardest thing I have ever done is walk away still madly in love with you.
181. The pain of losing you, no matter how much it breaks my heart, reminds me that I loved you with everything I had once upon a time.
182. I’m almost over you, that’s what I keep telling myself to make me sleep better at night.
183. I’ve always wondered which was worse- remembering or forgetting.
184. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
185. If you love something let it go, If it comes back to you it’s yours, If it doesn’t, it never was, and it’s not meant to be.
186. Sometimes I lie on our bed, eyes open, heart pounding, wondering when I will fully comprehend that you are never going to lie here beside me once more.
187. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ― Anais Nin
188. The great love is gone. ― Mercedes Lackey
189. I keep telling myself that I’m over you, but whenever I hear my cellphone chime, I cannot help but wish that it’s a message from you.
190. Losing someone can hard. But life will go on and time will not stop for you. Now it is your choice whether you want to live that life with pain or with ease. It is because sometimes pain is a choice.
191. There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. – Jean Anouilh
192. When you love a person, losing them only make you love them even more.
193. It is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all.
194. When you lose someone, you have to accept that grief and love cannot be separated. For when you reminisce the joys of your sweet love, you will be awakened by the grief you have tried so hard to keep at bay.
195. In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. – Dante Alighieri
196. There’s nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you’ve hung it so careful.
197. When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.
198. I cried so hard when I lost my cat, the pain of losing her spearing a hole through my heart. My father hugged me tight and whispered in my ear, Do not cry, my child. For when you lose something great, something better will take its place.
199. I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. – Rupert Brooke
200. How ironic it is that only loss can show us how important something is.
201. You’ve always acted like you were staying for good so when you left, I didn’t know how to live without you anymore.
202. Never let the person you love walk away. Try, try till there is a hope. And when that hope goes away, then, there is no point in trying anyway.
203. All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear, anger, love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually, it falls apart. ― Kirsten Miller
204. Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. – Hermann Hesse
Sad Quotes for lost loved ones
205. Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now, I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now, I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now, all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now. ― Nina Guilbeau
206. I loved you, with everything I got. I gave you everything I had. And the result was nothing but betrayal, loneliness, and pain. But that is totally fine because it made me stronger, wiser, and better. Your loss was my vaccine,and now I am immune to pain.
207. Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. ― Kahlil Gibran
208. It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
209. The grief of losing you made me feel so lost. But ironically, it is the same grief that keeps me going on with life.
210. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
211. If it is real, it will never be over. – Unknown
212. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. – Alphonse de Lamartine
213. “There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.” ~ Ben Harper
214. “Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” ~ Ray Stannard Baker
215. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Margaret Mitchell
216. “When its gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. you’ll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.” ~ Ian Mcewan
217. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” Daphne Rose Kingma
218. “Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.” Kahlil Gibran
219. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” ~ Anais Nin
220. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” ~ Margaret Mitchell
221. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” Barbara De Angelis
222. “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
223. “Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” Elana K. Arnold
224. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” William Wordsworth
225. “People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.” Ethel Person
226. “If you are seeking solace, read these lost love quotes. You would be surprised by how soothing you will find them. Share your grief with your best friend or family member. Listen to your friends for some well-meaning advice. Washington Irving
227. “I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.” Nicholas Sparks
228. “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson
229. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
230. “Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.” Toni Morrison
231. “Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.” Anonymous
232. “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
233. “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?” ~ Jodi Picoult
234. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” ~ H. L. Mencken
235. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Jennette Lee
236. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie
237. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” Nicholas Sparks
238. “When we go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we’ve had, we end up reeling and staggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.” Pam W. Vredevelt
239. “A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.” ~ Margaret Atwood
240. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.” ~ Dorothy Parker
241. “Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
242. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
243. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Love, loss, and redemption Quotes
244. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
245. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ~ J. K. Rowling
246. “I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.” ~ Tom Perrotta
247. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” Socrates
248. “Your past does not equal your future.” Anthony Robbins
249. For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
250. “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
251. “When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.” Helen Rowland
252. “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want.” Louisa May Alcott
253. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ~ Oscar Wilde
254. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
255. “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
256. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” G. K. Chesterton
257. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
258. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” Shannon L. Alder
259. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell
260. “Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
261. “Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.” ~ C. S. Lewis
262. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” Hermann Hesse
263. “Michael left because of the Bulls’ management, not because he’d lost his love of playing the game.” ~ Tiger Woods
264. “When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.” Gerald G. Jampolsky
265. “Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
266. “An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.” Harold Loukes
267. And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
268. “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” Samuel Butler
269. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss
270. “Pain is never permanent.” ~ Teresa of Avila
271. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” Thich Nhat Hanh
272. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo
273. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” Faraaz Kazi
274. “There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way, I feel that I live for both of us… and I will do my best.” ~ Petra Nemcova
275. “I just like to sing for people who have lost love.” ~ Mac Miller
276. “Though lovers be lost love shall not.” ~ Dylan Thomas
277. “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” Leo Buscaglia
278. “When raindrops hit the tin roof it’s crazy. That’s a metaphor, did I lose you, baby?” ~ Drake
279. “To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.” William Thackeray
280. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” Gilbert K. Chesterton