Lost Love Quotes

• The more one judges, the less one loves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Inspiring, Positivity

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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  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, Romantic, Positivity

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

  Richard Wilbur

  Break Up, I Miss You, Broken Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

  Ben Harper

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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  A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Broken Heart, Divorce, Survival

  Quoted in Time, 19 Mar. 1973

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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

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• 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

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, youll 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

  Love, Happiness, Fall

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Love, Hunger, Twisted

  James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• 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

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Love, Girlfriend, Loss

  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". Book by Junot Diaz, words within the cover, www.theguardian.com. 2007.

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• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

  David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Little drops of rain
  Whisper of the pain
  Tears of love
  Lost in the days gone by.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Pain, Rain

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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

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• 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

  Love, Life, Dream

  The History of Pendennis ch. 6 (1848 - 1850)

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• 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

  Love, Life, Breakup

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

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