Sad love encouraging quotes about lost love. These quotes remind us that we are not alone in this journey, and that there is light at the end of the tunnel. They can also help us to focus on the beauty that still exists even after a relationship has ended, as well as the strength and courage it takes to rebuild our lives.
1. 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.
2. You cannot truly let go until you accept that despite the pain he caused, he brought you far greater and unimaginable joy.
3. I was losing you was like losing a limb. I could function, but there was always something missing.
4. I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it. ~Sam Worthington
5. And he’d hated himself, and hated her, too, for the ruin they’d made of each other. ~Dennis Lehane
6. No matter how tightly you hold on when something is not meant to be, you have no choice but to let go.
7. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
Lost Love Quotes
8. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. – Nicholas Sparks
9. The phantom pain of your sweet embrace continues to haunt me even when I’m asleep.
10. I knew that losing you would bring me nothing but devastation. Despite this, I took the risk and welcomed you into my life, hoping that the sweetness of our time together would make up for all the pain your loss would someday bring.
11. 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
12. When I lost you, I felt as if the world ended. Time stopped for me and nothing else mattered. When I looked outside the window and saw that the birds continued to fly, I realized that the world will not accompany me in my grief. And life, as usual, will go on with our without me.
13. I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me. ― Richard Simmons
14. One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your heart.
15. 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.
16. 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
17. Trying to forget someone is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
18. 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
19. Do not worry, everything you lose, come back in another form. Love has the same rules. You once gave to someone, is not going to waste. You are going to get it back, in one form or another. Karma is keeping the track.
20. Incidents of the past – a lost love, a missed opportunity – shape us and make us what we are. ― Rana Daggubati
Losing your Love Quotes and Statuses
21. 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
22. 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
23. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
24. There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. ― Jean Anouilh
25. 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.
26. When you love someone more than you love yourself, then, and only then you can say that losing him was your biggest loss ever.
27. Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. – Otomo No Yakamochi
28. Where should all my love go when you are no longer here to receive it?
29. Sometimes the person you really need is the one you didn’t think you wanted.
30. Loss and love go way back. They have a very long and old relationship. Movies, novels, dramas and almost everything accepts it and interprets it. We have some quotes about loss and love, I hope you enjoy them.
31. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. – William Thackeray
32. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. – Daphne Rose Kingma
33. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. – G. K. Chesterton
34. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost. ― Dante Alighieri
35. 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
Quotes About Lost Love
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. Where there is love, there will always be hurt.
40. You’ve always acted like you were staying for good, so I didn’t know how to live without you anymore when you left.
41. Loss was never demanded, but always required. So is love.
42. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne
43. The grief of losing you made me feel so lost. But ironically, it is the same grief that keeps me going on with life.
44. You love to hate the one who loves the one you hate to love.
45. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ~Kahlil Gibran
46. I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think I don’t have her. To feel that I’ve lost her. To hear the immense night, more immense without her. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. ― Pablo Neruda
47. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara De Angelis
48. 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
49. It is true that sometimes losing one person can make the whole world dull. It can make your whole life seem useless and painful. Pain and the feeling of emptiness can haunt you. But you feel all that because you let yourself feel that.
50. Pain is like a ghost. You can feel it, and it lingers on you, or try to. But you can get rid of it. You will be amazed how a single belief can change you and your situation.
51. No one can describe the feeling of losing your soulmate. It is a part of you has gone, and you cannot function properly without him.
52. Loss of the one you love the most is like someone has ripped open your lungs.
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53. If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again. ― Amelie Chance
54. Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ― Otomo No Yakamochi
55. Feeling the pain and emptiness because of losing someone is all up to you. I am not saying that stop grieving, it is the part of the loss, and by no means, I am saying that stopped loving because you cannot. Learn the art of moving on.
56. It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. – John Steinbeck
57. I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. Rupert Brooke
58. Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. ― Jonathan Harnisch
59. It would be best if you did not cry because something has ended. Instead, smile because it happened.
60. 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. I love you, T. ― Nicholas Sparks
61. It takes a couple of seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye.
62. When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. ~Agnetha Faltskog
63. Yes, your loss was the most painful thing to experience. Now you are not with me, but I have made peace with the idea of not being with you. And it does not hurt me anymore. But the fact that I cannot stop loving you, remains the same.
64. You must not cry because something has ended. Instead, smile because it happened.
65. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
66. The grief of losing someone is like the air. No matter how hard you try to keep yourself from breathing, it would be best if you accepted that you could not go on without it.
67. I was faced with the hardest decision I will ever make in my life, to let go and move on.
68. Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were. – Unknown
69. 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
Profound Lost Love Quotes
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. 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
72. Though I may have lost you, you will always have a space in the most beautiful part of my damaged soul.
73. Sometimes, the only reason why you won’t let go of what’s making you sad is because it was the only thing that made you happy.
74. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
75. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. ~Henry Ward Beecher
76. The hardest thing I have ever done is walk away still madly in love with you.
77. I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
78. The hottest love has the coldest end. ― Socrates
79. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. ― Nicholas Sparks
80. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. ― Daphne Rose Kingma
81. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ― Barbara De Angelis
82. I walked away, and you did not stop me. That is the story of us, of our love, and how we lost it.
83. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. ― William Thackeray
84. Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
85. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
86. I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
87. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
88. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
89. Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.
90. Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
91. Our love has become nothing but a memory I keep hidden deep inside the brightest part of my soul.
92. I wondered if dying was a better alternative to enduring the rest of my days without your sweet kisses to keep me alive.
93. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. ― Dorothy Parker
94. If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again. – Amelie Chance
95. I just like to sing for people who have lost love. ― Mac Miller
96. I hate you…and then I love you…it’s like I want to throw you off a cliff….then rush to the bottom to catch you.
97. Pain is a part of love. But that doesn’t mean it should end in pain, and it doesn’t mean that you should seize yourself from loving, just because of the idea of pain. You can find the redemption from pain. Following section is all about love, loss, pain, and redemption. I hope you like it.
98. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ― Washington Irving
Famous Losing Love Quotes
99. Does loss get easier with time? It doesn’t. It just takes longer to remember but when you do, the stabbing pain will be the same as the first time you felt it.
100. Love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.
101. You never know how special something is until you lose it.
102. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
103. I try to live my life even without you it. I go to our favourite spots, our favourite places, trying to live on. Instead, I find myself living in the memories that haunt me, always and forever.
104. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ― Kahlil Gibran
105. You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. – John Green
106. I’ve always wondered what losing a limb would feel like. I stopped wondering the moment you left me for good.
107. Yes, it is true that you will never forget him, you will not stop loving him or thinking about him. But eventually, you will let someone else in. You will open your heart for someone else. And you know what the person you lost will also live there, but their presence will not have any impact on you anymore.
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. I wondered if death was a better alternative to enduring the rest of my days without your sweet kisses to keep me alive.
110. 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
111. Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. – Unknown
112. How do you go on knowing that the one thing that keeps your heart beating is forever lost to you?
113. Love is the one thing that makes us the most vulnerable. People can hurt you, without even hurting you.
114. If you can’t get somebody off your mind, they are probably supposed to be there.
115. Love can never die, you can only lose it. It is because even when you are not with someone you love, you still love him, you still want best for him, and you still want his happiness. You never stop loving him, and that is why love can never die.
116. Pain is never permanent. Passing time can take it away from you. All you have to do is let it go.
117. Love doesn’t make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
118. 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
Quotes about lost love to get you trough
119. 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
120. You still mean everything to me, but you’re just not worth the fight anymore.
121. And maybe this will end tomorrow or 2 weeks or 4 months or maybe even 2 years from now but no matter when it ends I’ll never regret any of it
122. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ― Richard Wilbur
123. Do not feel bitter when you lose someone. It will be painful, yes. But the pain of losing that person will only remind you of how much you’ve loved, and how much of it was real.
124. Memories are the best souvenirs.
125. 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
126. As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.
127. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. ― Henry Ward Beecher
128. I’m not like a car you can fix up. I’m never gonna run right Bella. – Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
129. Losing you was like losing a limb. I could function, but there was always something missing.
130. 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. ― The Beatles
131. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Unknown
132. You cannot see loss, you cannot hear loss. There is only one thing you can do, and that is to feel it.
133. 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
134. Sometimes things need to be let go of. If it’s meant to be, you’ll find each other again.
135. There were only two soul-stirring moments in my life. The first was when I met you, and the second was when I lost you.
136. 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.
137. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. ― Algernon Charles Swinburne
138. 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
139. 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
140. When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.
141. Do not feel bitter when you lose someone. It will be painful, yes. But the pain of losing that person will only remind you of how much you’ve loved and how much of it was real.
Sad Quotes for lost loved ones
142. Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
143. 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.
144. I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me. ~Richard Simmons
145. I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke
146. 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 each and every day, reminding you of the everlasting sweetness of love.
147. You cannot truly love until you accept that with the sweetness of love comes the horror of pain.
148. 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
149. I never knew you could experience hell on earth until I lost the one angel that brought me heaven on earth.
150. Life teaches us so many lessons. Life is the only real teacher. The most important lesson it teaches us is a loss. The loss is an only loss when you lose something you love. Losing something you never had any attachment with, is not a loss. Maybe that is why love and loss have such a deep connection.
151. Sometimes you have to allow yourself to lose something extraordinary for something better to come in your life.
152. 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
153. Does loss get easier with time? It doesn’t. It just takes longer to remember, but when you do, the stabbing pain will be the same as the first time you felt it.
154. God is closest to those with broken hearts.
155. I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. ― Nicholas Sparks
156. 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, Message in a Bottle
157. 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
158. Unrequited love can never kill you. It only causes the pain. Pain that can fly away on the wings of time.
159. I keep on 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.
160. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
161. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton
162. I believe that losing someone does not cause us pain. Loving him does. It is love that makes us cry for him. It is love that makes our hearts ache. It is love that makes us want to be with him. And it is love that brings us pain.
163. When you remember how hard it is to change yourself, you begin to understand what little chance we have of changing others.
Deep Lost Love Quotes
164. They continued to ask me what pain felt like. I looked them in the eye and told them that real pain is having to bury your one and only child.
165. When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. – George R.R. Martin
166. You were the light in my life- the sun, the star, the everlasting luminance. Now all I’m left with is darkness, the specks of light here and there to remind me of what I once had but lost.
167. Does love truly come to everyone? Or may I die alone, having never been loved or given the chance to love?
168. I just wish I could lose these feelings as fast as I lost you.
169. No one wants to lose love. But was it ever in our power to choose what we get to keep and what we do not? It hits you when you least expect it.
170. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
171. What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life’s blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead. ― Alice McDermott
172. 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
173. What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
174. I buried you yesterday, but memories of you will keep on haunting me tomorrow and always.
175. 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
176. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ― Mignon McLaughlin
Healing Quotes About Love Lost
177. 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.
178. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. – Dylan Thomas
179. Time only teaches us to conceal our pain from others and we learn to grieve all by ourselves. ― Narin Grewal
180. 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.
181. There were only two soul-stirring moments in my life. First was when I met you, and second was when I lost you.
182. 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
183. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
184. Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
185. I’m afraid we’ll be one of the ones who miss each other their entire life.
186. What should I do without you? I simply cannot imagine.
187. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean De La Fontaine
188. There is nothing more painful than saying goodbye to something that’s brought so much joy and beauty to your life. However, some goodbyes are just inevitable.
189. Love can tear you apart… it can kill you. But if you’re lucky, it can put you back together.
190. To welcome great beginnings, you must accept the possible sad endings that come with it.
191. 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
192. 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
193. When I lost you, I felt as if the world had ended. Time stopped for me, and nothing else mattered. When I looked outside the window and saw that the birds continued to fly, I realized that the world would not accompany me in my grief. And life, as usual, will go on with our without me.
194. Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.
195. I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
196. And he’d hated himself, and hated her, too, for the ruin they’d made of each other. ― Dennis Lehane
Healing Quotes on Lost Love
197. You always told me that someday I had to prepare myself for when you would never come back. I tried, I did, but nothing could ever prepare me for the day it happened.
198. 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. Maybe I just had to go on walking through this path, and apply the lessons losing you has taught me.
199. I lost my self, while trying not to lose you.
200. It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. ― Laurence J. Peter
201. God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.
202. 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.
203. The great love is gone. – Mercedes Lackey
204. The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
205. How can I lose something that I never had?
206. The grief of losing someone is like the air. No matter how hard you try to keep yourself from breathing, you must accept that you cannot go on without it.
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207. I knew that losing you would bring me nothing but devastation. Despite this, I took the risk and welcomed you in my life, hoping that the sweetness of our time together would make up for all the pain your loss would someday bring.
208. I buried you yesterday, but memories of you will keep on haunting me tomorrow and forevermore.
209. 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
210. Loving you was easy, losing you was hard, and forgetting you is impossible.
211. “Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.” Margaret Mitchell
212. “So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.” ~ John Milton
213. “There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in a way, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.” ~ Ricardo Montalban
214. “There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” Unknown
215. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” Washington Irving
Encouraging Quotes About Lost Love
216. “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” ~ Richard Wilbur
217. “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
218. “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ~ Rumi
219. “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.” William Shakespeare
220. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, / Men were deceivers ever, / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never.” Otomo No Yakamochi
221. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
222. “Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien
223. “If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he because it was I.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
224. “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
225. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier , Sad lost love quotes
226. “One disco, one softball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.” ~ Jasmine Guy
227. “It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
228. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
229. “There is a comfort in the strength of love; / Would overset the brain, or break the heart.” Anais Nin
230. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton , Lost love quotes broken
Best Lost Love Quotes & Sayings
231. “Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.” Bryant McGill
232. “It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.” ~ James W. Hall
233. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
234. “We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
235. “She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.” ~ Junot Diaz
236. With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.” ~ William Butler Yeats , Lost love quotes for her
237. “Little drops of rain whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.” ~ Robert Plant
238. “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
239. “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
240. “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.” ~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
241. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss
242. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ~ Washington Irving
243. “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” Flavia Weedn
244. “Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” Jonathan Safran Foer
245. “You must be strong enough to know that love will come to you when you are ready. You must be strong enough to know when to say goodbye, and know that letting go is not weak.” Marisa Donnelly
246. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Kahlil Gibran
Loss and Love Messages for Her or Him
247. “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
248. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
249. “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.” Barbra Streisand
250. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” Socrates
251. “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
252. “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” Jonathan Harnisch
253. “There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” ~ Jean Anouilh
254. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” Sienna Miller
255. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” ~ Hermann Hesse
256. “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” Richard Wilbur
257. “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.” Jean Anouilh “There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” Clive Barker
258. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” Teresa Medeiros
259. “You still mean everything to me, but you’re just not worth the fight anymore. Sometimes things need to be let go of. If it’s meant to be, you’ll find each other again. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” Jean Anouilh
260. “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
261. “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
Quotes About Moving on From Lost Love
262. “There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” Zayn Malik
263. “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
264. “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
265. “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
266. “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” ~ Rosa Parks
267. “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
268. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” Hermann Hesse
269. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
270. “The more one judges, the less one loves.” ~ Honore de Balzac
271. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” Buddha
272. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
273. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” ~ Julia Roberts
Sad Quotes for lost loved ones from remembrance
274. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ~ Erich Fromm
275. “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” Bob Newhart
276. “I dreamed that I stood in a valley and amid sighs,
277. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand.” ~ Dorothy Parker
278. “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