Sad Lost Love Quotes
These Sad Lost Love Quotes may not bring back your love, but they can give you some respite. Having a broken heart can be the saddest thing.
You lose interest in most things, and your heart finds it hard to understand everything. Perhaps you feel lost, not knowing that things will improve with time because time is a great healer.
You will know that others feel like you, too – that others have gone through pain just like you. These insights might relieve you if you’re forlorn, dejected, miserable, or unhappy about your love life.
Feel free to share these quotations with a friend or loved one going through difficult times.
Quotes About Lost Love
- You can love someone so much. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
John Green - I should know enough about a loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone—you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Alyson Noel - Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran - Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Unknown
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Heartbroken
- 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 - It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton - When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
George R.R. Martin - The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates - Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean De La Fontaine - Still hoping we ride off into the sunset together.
Andy Atticus
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Losing Someone
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 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 - Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.
Nicholas Sparks - Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine - 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 - 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.
Unknown
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Downhearted and Dejected
- I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Frank Zappa - Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Otomo No Yakamochi - There is no love without suffering.
Arielle Dombasle - No one compares to you, but there’s no you except in my dreams tonight.
Lana Del Rey - I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.
Mona Simpson
For the Forlorn
- The great love is gone.
Mercedes Lackey - In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin - 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 - For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Being Lost Without You
- It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
John Steinbeck - I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Rupert Brooke - … And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.
Pablo Neruda - A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for in the wake of many betrayals.
Unknown - It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
Charlotte Featherstone - In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri - I’m not like a car you can fix up. I’m never gonna run right, Bella.
Stephenie Meyer, New Moon - Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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