Lost love is a universal theme that resonates deeply within the human heart, echoing the pain, nostalgia, and sometimes the wisdom gained through the experience of losing someone we once cherished. It is a poignant reminder of love’s fragility and the enduring impact it leaves on our lives, shaping our emotions and memories in profound ways. The following quotes delve into the myriad emotions and reflections that lost love invokes, capturing the essence of its bittersweet nature.
These quotes serve as windows into the soul, revealing the inner turmoil and acceptance that often accompanies the journey of letting go. They reflect the universal truth that love, in all its forms, is a powerful force that can bring immense joy and, at times, profound sorrow. As you read through these reflections, you may find echoes of your own experiences, a shared human condition that binds us all in the complexity of love and loss.
“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
Incidents of the past – a lost love, a missed opportunity – shape us and make us what we are. Rana Daggubati
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken
I think we’ve all been kind of… everyone’s been hurt, everyone’s felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you’re pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit. Mark Ruffalo
I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it. Sam Worthington
If India hadn’t become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn’t have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it’s a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively. Karan Mahajan
The silver screen offers much in the way of over-the-top rom-coms, long lost love, saddening love stories and heart warming optimism that can spark feelings in anyone. Hilary Farr
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Kahlil Gibran
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” Shannon L. Alder
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” Sienna Miller
“I have loved and I have lost and I’m starting to believe; it’s okay. Sometimes what we ‘think’ is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly ‘meant’ for us. And if I have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; I am content in knowing the greatest love I will ever experience, hasn’t even begun yet.” Nikki Rowe
“I’m not like a car you can fix up. I’m never gonna run right” Bella” ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
“You can’t just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“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
Though lovers be lost, love shall not. Dylan Thomas
“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
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” – J. K. Rowling
“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.” Bryant McGill
“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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, Little Women
“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
“I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.” ― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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
Love educates us about art. Art consoles us from lost love. Our great loves are a condition of our future love. Celine Sciamma
“To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.” William Thackeray
“No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” Buddha
“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, The Eternal Ones
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” – Leo Buscaglia
“A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.” – Margaret Atwood
“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, Enduring Love
I just like to sing for people who have lost love. Mac Miller
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. Tom Perrotta
“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 is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” Washington Irving
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. ‘Lolita’ is that book for me. Nabokov’s love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. Marisha Pessl
“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.” ― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.” – Ben Harper
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” ― Dylan Thomas
“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” ― George R.R. Martin
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” – Anais Nin
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time. Jasmine Guy
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“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, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow. Sam Elliott
“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
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” ― John Green
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
“No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.” ― Lana Del Rey
