These Lost Love quotes will inspire you. Lost love, when you’ve lost someone that was your world. Someone who meant everything to you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging lost love quotes, lost love sayings, and lost love proverbs.
Best Lost Love Quotes
- “The more one judges, the less one loves.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “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
- “There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.” ~ Ben Harper
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” ~ Anais Nin
- “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
- “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.” ~ Margaret Atwood
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “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
- “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
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“Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
- “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” ~ Hermann Hesse
- “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
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“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.” ~ Junot Diaz
- “Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” ~ Ray Stannard Baker
- “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton , Lost love quotes broken
- “Little drops of rain whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.” ~ Robert Plant
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“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
- “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
- “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
- “For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier , Sad lost love quotes
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “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
- “I dreamed that I stood in a valley and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.” ~ William Butler Yeats , Lost love quotes for her - “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
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“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ~ Washington Irving
- “Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” ~ Jean Anouilh
- “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
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“So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.” ~ John Milton
- “When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
- “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.” ~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
- “Love is like quicksilver in the hand.” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.” ~ Dorothy Parker
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“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “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
- “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
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“Michael left because of the Bulls’ management, not because he’d lost his love of playing the game.” ~ Tiger Woods
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “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
- “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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“I just like to sing for people who have lost love.” ~ Mac Miller
- “We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “We loved with a love that was more than love.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “One disco, one softball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.” ~ Jasmine Guy
- “Though lovers be lost love shall not.” ~ Dylan Thomas
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “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
- “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “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
- “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
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
- “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
- “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Pain is never permanent.” ~ Teresa of Avila
- “When raindrops hit the tin roof it’s crazy. That’s a metaphor, did I lose you, baby?” ~ Drake
