Lost Love Quotes can be a source of comfort for those who are mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with an unexpected break-up. In these quotes, we find solace, inspiration, and a reminder that even in our most vulnerable moments, we are capable of resilience and growth. Let these words be a guiding light, helping you navigate the turbulent waters of love and healing, and may you find the strength to move forward with hope, wisdom, and a heart open to new possibilities.
Quotes About Lost Love
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. You must not cry because something has ended. Instead, smile because it happened.
4. I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it. ― Sam Worthington
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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.
10. 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
11. You cannot see loss, you cannot hear loss. There is only one thing you can do, and that is to feel it.
12. 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
Profound Lost Love Quotes
13. A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn’t make sense.
14. The great love is gone. ― Mercedes Lackey
15. I was faced with the hardest decision I will ever make in my life, to let go and move on.
16. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. ― Dylan Thomas
17. We came alone, and we will go alone. Alone is all we have. Understand it, and embrace it.
18. 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.
19. 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
20. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. – Dylan Thomas
21. 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
22. Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. – Hermann Hesse
23. It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
24. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. ― William Thackeray
25. 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.
26. Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. ― Hermann Hesse
27. 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
28. Sometimes you have to allow yourself to lose something great in order for something better to come in your life.
29. 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.
30. I woke up from that beautiful dream and found myself living in a reality far worse than my scariest nightmares.
Famous Losing Love Quotes
31. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. – Algernon Charles Swinburne
32. When you left, you took a chunk of my ever bleeding heart with you.
33. 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.
34. 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
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. I walked away, and you did not stop me. That is the story of us, of our love, and how we lost it.
38. Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your heart.
42. 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
43. 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.
44. 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
45. You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. ― John Green
46. 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.
47. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
48. I never knew you could experience hell on earth until I lost the one angel that brought me heaven on earth.
49. I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. – Frank Zappa
50. Losing your love is never one’s choice, but accepting the loss and moving on is.
51. I’ve always wondered what losing a limb would feel like. I stopped wondering the moment you left me for good.
52. 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
53. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. ― Henry Ward Beecher
54. There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. ― Ranata Suzuki
Healing Quotes on Lost Love
55. 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.
56. Our love has become nothing but a memory I keep hidden deep inside the brightest part of my soul.
57. 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
58. Time only teaches us to conceal our pain from others and we learn to grieve all by ourselves. ― Narin Grewal
59. 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.
60. 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.
61. 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
62. 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
63. What should I do without you? I simply cannot imagine.
64. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost. ― Dante Alighieri
65. Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
66. The hottest love has the coldest end. – Socrates
67. 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.
68. Still hoping we ride off into the sunset together. – Andy Atticus
69. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne
70. You never know how special something is until you lose it.
71. When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. ― Agnetha Faltskog
72. I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke
73. 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
74. 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
75. 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.
76. 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
Healing Quotes About Love Lost
77. 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.
78. 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
79. Loss of the one you love the most is like someone has ripped open your lungs.
80. I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
81. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ― Mignon McLaughlin
82. 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
83. Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.
84. 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.
85. 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.
86. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? ~Terry Pratchett
87. When you love a person, losing them only make you love them even more.
88. 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
89. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
90. When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. ~Agnetha Faltskog
91. 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
92. 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.
93. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton
94. 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.
95. I buried you yesterday, but memories of you will keep on haunting me tomorrow and always.
96. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Unknown
Deep Lost Love Quotes
97. 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.
98. 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.
99. 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.
100. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
101. 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
102. When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. – George R.R. Martin
103. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean De La Fontaine
104. Love is the one thing that makes us the most vulnerable. People can hurt you, without even hurting you.
105. You cannot truly love until you accept that with the sweetness of love comes the horror of pain.
106. I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
107. 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.