Past Love Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old past love quotes, past love sayings, and past love proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

I mean, aren't we all tormented by past relationships? Alex Rosa
If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go. Jourdane Erasquin
Love is gone and my heart is a bird, that has lost direction mid-flight. Laura Ramirez
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. Romain Rolland
We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love. Sigmund Freud
The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is. Tigress Luv
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. Victoria Holt
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Nicholas Sparks
It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think? Winona Ryder
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Nicholas Sparks
I wish I could turn back the clock. I'd find you sooner, and love you longer. _ Anonymous_
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. Brian L. Weiss
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. Mandy Hale
What we all really seek is true love and finding the true love of your life begins with thinking about the demise of your past relationships. James A. Murphy
If on the other hand, you've been in love and been hurt, we can all empathize with you. I think most of us have experienced those hurtful feelings before. James A. Murphy
The connections between the current relationship and an old relationship and the way in which the present is serving as a vehicle for working out old relationships remain outside conscious awareness. Robert J. Ursano
Entering in a new relationship requires beginning with a clean slate. Getting to know each other's past relationship is necessary to start a new relationship without any luggage left by the past. Spiderlove
Their former partner may just have walked out of the relationship without giving them a heads up, leaving them still in love. Hence, the nostalgic ex moved on but with traces of love still in their heart. Jeffah Iman Kauchape
When tempted to equate or allude to your past, remind elf that there is a good reason why your ex did not make it to your present. Jeffah Iman Kauchape
The pain and fear produced in past relationships hold the key to your most valuable traits. Nancy Lynn Pina
Whether you think your past relationship should be irrelevant to your current one, it isn't irrelevant. It matters, and if you really want to invest in your current relationship, you need to let the past one go. Betheny Frankel
We wish to connect once again with a soulmate whom we have either experienced a powerful bond of love with or have not been able to forgive. Christine Rakela
It is this feeling of remembrance that compels us in a desire to be together, to experience the ultimate embrace of timeless love. This universal law which follows our every action, promotes our reuniting with a past love. Christine Rakela
Love your past and forgive your hurts. For your past is 'you' and you are your 'past.' E.C. Addison Steele
Free to live, free to love, free to be happy / with your past and new love life. / Always remember, forgiveness brings healing / and makes your future look bright. E.C. Addison Steele
Nothing of life is lost; no, not even the experiences of the past you so cherish and believe lost. Angelina Kiena Mascari
The past was once the present, and the present a second ago was the future. The good thing about memories that keep your thoughts fixed to the past is the cause for the painful longing of your heart. Angelina Kiena Mascari
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Mitch Albom
You find new love not to forget the past love. But you forget the past because of that new love. Ayaka
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? Bob Marley