Love Lost Sayings and Quotes

Is it better to have loved and lost than never loved at all? For some the answer might be “yes”. For others the pain of losing someone we love is unbearable. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful love lost quotes.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. Helen Rowland
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. Francoise Sagan
It's afterward you realize that the feeling of happiness you had didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. Marguerite Duras
I have always found husbands much more satisfying after marriage than during. Peggy Guggenheim
No matter how in love you are with someone, if you've lost sight of who you are and you're loving yourself a little less, it's time to walk away. Emily Sauber's Mom
Like a rose, this love too, / may reach its Bourne, / wither and die, ---only to bloom again / in another season / ---in another garden. Burt E. Pringle
A smile that has vanished / — a word gone unsaid, / has leado the emptiness, / his love life now dead. Burt E. Pringle
Through the precious days of summer / they lived without regret. / But like the radiant sun---their love has also set. / They thought every moment goden---with nothing to despair. / Now that spell has been broken / and their autumn is in the air. Burt E. Pringle
Love is lost by those too selfish to share their space! Verna Buchanan
Maybe the relationship wasn't always this bad, but it also wasn't getting any better. It was clear you were being taken for granted, that you were being used as a backup plan or a safety net by your partner. You were no longer considered a gift to him. Tatiana Jerome
I lost, I lost. / Time wasn't on my side, / I won , I won. / The battle to fight. / Loving & losing what a game. / A shot, I look. / Oh! What a shame. Sapna Sood
I loved, I bore so much pain, / All of a sudden, there was so much rain. / I loved, I tried...I let go inside. / It was such a difficult ride. / I missed, I kissed it was so hard. / I hurt, I burnt..My heart from the start. Sapna Sood
Trying and trying my babies grew up, / not so old, / and we lost trust. / In time, everything turned sour. / Was it my fault or was it the hour. Sapna Sood
You loved me, you really did. / it was different, / then you did a twist. / I felt the drifting, / I know I could / You wiggled around it, / I could see the mist. Sapna Sood
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
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
I think about you. But I don't say it anymore. Marguerite Duras
I had someone once who made every day mean something. And no... I am lost...And nothing means anything anymore. Ranata Suzuki
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. George R.R. Martin
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
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki
It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all. Ranata Suzuki
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other. Dennis Lehane
Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. Jonathan Harnisch