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Love and lost quotes
Our parting was like a stalemate. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still; that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished. ― Ranata Suzuki
It is the touch of a lover’s arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine. ― D.S. Mixell
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
I don’t know where you are, but I miss you. I don’t know what you’re doing, but I’m thinking of you. — London Mond
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. — Khalil Gibran
If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go. — Sarah Dessen
You can love someone so much. But, you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green
You can love someone so much. But, you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green
Who knows how long I’ve loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will. — lost love quotes by The Beatles
It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. — Laurence J. Peter
Lost loved one quotes
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. — lost love quotes by James O’Barr
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. — lost love quotes by Helen Keller
I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you’ve met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you’re suffocating. The same emotion hasn’t changed at all in a thousand years. — Haruki Murakami
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. — Earl A Grollman
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — lost love quotes by William Wordsworth
Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. — Jonathan Harnisch
I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him. — lost love quotes by Ranata Suzuki
And with the morn those angel faces smile which I have loved long since and lost awhile. — John Henry Newman
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
Quotes about lost loved ones
I’ve lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed. — Garth Brooks
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime; as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed; even one of those years would have been a precious gift. — Michael Milken
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I’d been afraid for a long time, I’d been afraid for a long time. There’s fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. — Jean Rhys
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
When a lost loved one appears before you, it’s your brain that fights it, not your heart. — Mitch Albom
You can love someone so much. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran
And I always clung too hard to hope. Not because there was any, but because I had trouble letting go. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn
If strength is love, then we weren’t strong enough, But if strength is letting love go, we were. — Joe Bolton
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R.R. Martin
Quotes about lost love
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. — Dylan Thomas
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
Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. — lost love quotes by Ranata Suzuki
There are so many people to fall in love with but I chose to fall for you. That was the biggest mistake of my life, but I know that like all difficult things come to an end, even this will and you will return back someday. — Ava Benson
It’s the end of something I did not want to end
Beginning of hard times to come
But something that was not meant to be is done
And this is the start of what was. ― Mike Skinner
Once there are no more obstacles to overcome,
no sudden closeness to achieve,
the eyes open the windows to deception and lies,
when two intimate hearts become strangers again,
that’s how the love dies. — Tatjana Ostojic
You were something or someone I loved. But I am a traveler and I love no one but the empty road. ― lost love quotes by Dorothea Lasky
You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone. gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. — Wonder Years
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — David Grayson
Loss loved one quotes and sayings
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
I am thinking of you, In my sleepless solitude tonight. If it’s wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right. Cause I’m drowned in you, And I won’t pull through, without you by my side. — Mariah Carey
You will always be the answer when somebody asks me what I’m thinking about. — Lisa Brooks
Late at night when all the world is sleeping, I stay up and think of you. And I wish on a star that somewhere you are thinking of me too. — Selena Quintanilla Perez
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision—a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain. — Teresa Medeiros
There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. — lost love quotes by Jean Anouilh
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. — Kahlil Gibran
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry Pratchett
There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. — Kate DiCamillo
Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. — Ernest Hemingway
Sadness quotes when lost loved one
The sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you. Some people might find that strange. But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them. — Ranata Suzuki
No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight. — Lana Del Rey
If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart. — Ranata Suzuki
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost. — Nan Goldin
I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now, I am lost, and nothing means anything anymore. — Ranata Suzuki
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. — Seneca the Younger
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Desiree. It’s like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past. — Craig Clevenger
The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore. I’ve been evicted. — Ranata Suzuki
And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go. — Joe Bolton
Lost love quotes for her
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
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
Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you. — Lisa Kleypas
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
Loneliness isn’t gray. It is the color of the sky when it bleeds crimson rays in the horizon while there you are standing on the edge somewhere in this boulevard of broken promises, waiting, and waiting for a love that already left. — Verliza Gajeles
The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the list went on, and on, and on like some pounding surf that threatened to drown him. — Vince Flynn
And sometimes memories hurt because I knew they could never be anything more. — Priya Prithiviraj
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. — Kahlil Gibran
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — lost love quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it. — Sam Worthington
Lost love quotes and sayings
Dry your eyes mate, I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts, but you’ve got to walk away now, it’s over. — Mike Skinner
Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night – building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever. — lost love quotes by Laura Chouette
It’s been so lonely without you here.
Like a bird, without a song.
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling.
So tell me baby, where did I go wrong? — Prince
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces. — Joseph Conrad
I can go days without talking to you, months without seeing you, but not a second goes by that I’m not thinking about you. — Anurag Prakash Ray
So, here I am, all by myself, thinking of you – no one else. There’s a feeling inside and as hard as I try, it just won’t go away. — Angel Hema
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along. — Rumi
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
Your memory feels like home to me. So, whenever my mind wanders, it always finds the way back to you. — Ranata Suzuki
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lost love quotes for him
Love can play destructive games; one day overwhelming you with joy and euphoria and the next, destroying your life. — R.J. Intindola
But the sense that it was his last chance, that he loved her and had lost her, that she would think him a fool whatever he should say, suddenly gave him a lash and added a deep vibration to his low voice. — Henry James
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
To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. — William Thackeray
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. — The Wonder Years
This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. — Nicholas Sparks
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
The hottest love has the coldest end. — Socrates
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. — Nicholas Sparks
I keep myself busy with the things I do. But in every moment when I pause, I still think of you. — Mitch Cuento
Sad losing love quotes
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
I have learned how to make time pass, but I never stop thinking of you. — Abbas Kazerooni
Though lovers be lost, love shall not. — Dylan Thomas
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? — lost love quotes by Jeff Melvoin
All I know is, being away from you, makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much. — Samantha Towle
Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death. — Farooq A. Shiekh
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
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. — lost love quotes by Plato
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
Sometimes I miss you so much, it hurts. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart with the strength of the entire world. — Colleen Hoover
Short losing love quotes
His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him. — Rainbow Rowell
Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. — Brian Celio
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. — Henry Ward Beecher
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — lost love quotes by Dr. Seuss
Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse
When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. — Agnetha Faltskog
Maybe it’s time to let him go. Find someone who truly appreciates you. That person is out there. — Summer Felix
I think I’d miss you even if we never met. — lost love quotes by The Wedding Date
Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee. — John Green
No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight. — Lana Del Rey
I miss you a little. A little too much, a little too often, and a little bit more every day. — John Michael Montgomery
Sometimes you just need to run away just to see who will come after you. — lost love quotes by Lisa Brooks
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. — Samuel Butler
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. — Hermann Hesse
Losing the love of your life quotes
Then I said goodnight and tucked you away inside a place called Nostalgia, where you’ll always remain unspoiled, somewhere between my lungs that used to breathe ocean air and my belly that fluttered with hope. — Victoria Erickson
I miss you like the sun misses the flowers, like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world which your absence has banished me to. — William
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
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
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
Just because we don’t talk doesn’t mean I don’t think about you. I’m just trying to distance myself because I know I can’t have you. — Wiz Khalifa
Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you. — Tegan Quin
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
But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it. — Calla Quinn
Long after I have given up, my heart still searches for you without my permission. — Rudy Francisco
Grief quotes on lost love
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision, a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain. — Teresa Medeiros
I made sure to do everything correctly and ensured to make you happy in every way I could. But one thing I did not make sure of was that you would leave me. That is something I was not prepared for. — Leah Jones
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
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. — Rupert Brooke
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
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
Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will. — Mandy Hale
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. — Otomo Yakamochi
I went to sleep last night thinking about you, I woke up this morning still thinking about you. When I’m down, I whisper your name to myself and smile. I still love you, don’t doubt it. — Terry Mark
I only miss you when I’m breathing. — Jason Derulo
Losing someone you love quotes
There can’t be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there’s always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments. — Terry Mark
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
To meet, to know, to love and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
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
But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. — Lemony Snicket
I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment you left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million. — J.A. Huss
I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it? — Faraaz Kazi
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want. — Louisa May Alcott
I’m still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you. — Tegan Quin
More losing love sayings and quotes
All that remains to us when love and glory are over, when adventures and passions have faded into the past, is but a deeper and ever-deepening sense of the infinite; and if we have not that within us, then are we destitute indeed. — Maurice Maeterlinck
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg
Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse
I’ve lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed. — Garth Brooks
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
When a lost loved one appears before you, it’s your brain that fights it, not your heart. — Mitch Albom
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again. — Paulo Coelho
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
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. — Richard Wilbur
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. — Mignon McLaughlin
Final thought
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