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Deep Lost Love Quotes and Sayings can be used to talk about the feelings, sadness, and loneliness that come from losing someone you love. Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous love-lost quotes and love-lost sayings. Lost Love Quotes can be a source of comfort for those who are mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with an unexpected breakup.

Sad Love Messages

1. Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. – Barbra Streisand

2. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ― Barbara De Angelis

3. Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life. ― Jennette Lee

4. A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn’t make sense.

5. You still mean everything to me, but you’re just not worth the fight anymore.

6. If this is my heartache, then let it be mine to endure. Permit me to feel it in its entirety. Don’t tell me how much of you I am allowed to love. ― Lang Leav

7. No one can describe the feeling of losing your soulmate. It is a part of you that has gone, and you cannot function properly without him.

8. You love to hate the one who loves the one you hate to love.

9. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ― Alfred Lord Tennyson

10. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, / Men were deceivers ever, / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never. – William Shakespeare

11. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

12. Losing you left a bitter taste in my mouth. But whenever I try to wash the taste away, the lingering sweetness of our time together keeps me from doing it. I would endure every bitter taste if only to taste bits and pieces of the sweetness that once overwhelmed me.

13. Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.

14. 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

15. I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. – Frank Zappa

Best Lost Love Quotes & Sayings

16. Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. ― Jonathan Harnisch

17. Losing your love is never one’s choice, but accepting the loss and moving on is.

18. 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

19. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. ― Algernon Charles Swinburne

20. I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life. ― Plato

21. Do not blame love for the pain. Love is such a beautiful thing. Blame the person who turned love into pain for you. That person is to be held responsible, not loved.

22. My student once asked me what the saddest word in the world was. I looked her in the eye and told her the most painful word ever said to me, Goodbye.

23. Love doesn’t make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

24. When you left, you took a chunk of my ever-bleeding heart with you.

25. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. ― Toni Morrison

26. I looked at the house with such great pain. Home. It is a sweet and foreign word to me now. Without you in it, what used to be a home is now nothing but a house.

27. 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

28. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

29. When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.

30. I woke up from that beautiful dream and found myself living in a reality far worse than my scariest nightmares.

31. All that remains to us when love and glory are over when adventures and passions have faded into the past, is but a deeper and ever-deepening sense of the infinite; and if we have not that within us, then are we destitute indeed. ― Maurice Maeterlinck

32. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ― Washington Irving

33. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Encouraging Quotes About Lost Love

34. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

35. Does loss get easier with time? It doesn’t. It just takes longer to remember but when you do, the stabbing pain will be the same as the first time you felt it.

36. 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. ~C. Elizabeth

37. This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. – Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

38. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ― Jean de La Fontaine

39. As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.

40. The great love is gone. – Mercedes Lackey

41. I knew that losing you would bring me nothing but devastation. Despite this, I took the risk and welcomed you into my life, hoping that the sweetness of our time together would make up for all the pain your loss would someday bring.

42. The phantom pain of your sweet embrace continues to haunt me even when I’m asleep.

43. No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

44. no greater joy can ever compare to love as no greater pain can ever compare to loss.

45. She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, and appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. ― Jonathan Safran Foer

46. Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. ― Kahlil Gibran

47. I just wish I could lose these feelings as fast as I lost you.

48. The grief of losing someone is like the air. No matter how hard you try to keep yourself from breathing, you must accept that you cannot go on without it.

49. This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. I love you, T. ― Nicholas Sparks

50. I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love from people who care for me. ~Richard Simmons

51. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. ― Daphne Rose Kingma

52. My student once asked me what the saddest word in the world was. I looked her in the eye and told her the most painful word that was ever said to me, Goodbye.

53. Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake up and reach for hands that are not there.

54. I lost myself while trying not to lose you.

Losing your Love Quotes and Statuses

55. Do not feel bitter when you lose someone. It will be painful, yes. But the pain of losing that person will only remind you of how much you’ve loved, and how much of it was real.

56. Sometimes the person you need is the one you didn’t think you wanted.

57. You always told me that someday I had to prepare myself for when you would never come back. I tried, I did, but nothing could ever prepare me for the day it happened.

58. We came alone, and we will go alone. Alone is all we have. Understand it, and embrace it.

59. There’s nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you’ve hung it so carefully.

60. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

61. I’m afraid we’ll be one of the ones who miss each other their entire life.

62. Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

63. The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most.

64. Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision, a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain. ― Teresa Medeiros

65. There were only two soul-stirring moments in my life. First was when I met you, and second was when I lost you.

66. And maybe this will end tomorrow or 2 weeks or 4 months or maybe even 2 years from now but no matter when it ends I’ll never regret any of it

67. You cannot truly love until you accept that with the sweetness of love comes the horror of pain.

68. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ~Anais Nin

69. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

70. Losing you was like losing a limb. I could function, but there was always something missing.

71. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ― Mignon McLaughlin

72. The hottest love has the coldest end. ― Socrates

73. My love, you left me here in the dark, to taste the pain of loss. But guess what? I found my way through that darkness, I found a light in that darkness. Now I know the taste of pain, but I am immune to it, it cannot hurt me anymore, and all credit goes to you. Thank you for making me stronger, my love.

74. Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

75. I just like to sing for people who have lost love. ― Mac Miller

76. 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

77. Does loss get easier with time? It doesn’t. It just takes longer to remember, but when you do, the stabbing pain will be the same as the first time you felt it.

78. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ― Samuel Butler

Deep Lost Love Quotes

79. And he’d hated himself, and hated her, too, for the ruin they’d made of each other. ― Dennis Lehane

80. Trying to forget someone is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

81. 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

82. I try to live my life even without you. I go to our favorite spots, our favorite places, trying to live on. Instead, I find myself living in the memories that haunt me, always and forever.

83. Memories are the best souvenirs.

84. 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. – C. Elizabeth

85. I woke up from that beautiful dream and found myself living in reality far worse than my scariest nightmares.

86. Does love truly come to everyone? Or may I die alone, having never been loved or given the chance to love?

87. I never knew you could experience hell on earth until I lost the one angel that brought me heaven on earth.

88. Losing you was never a part of the plan. We were supposed to be together, forever. But I lost you anyway because things do not go always according to plan. I accept this loss, and I am moving on, but I will never stop loving you. Maybe someone will replace you, but you will always be the one I love the most.

89. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. ― Alphonse de Lamartine

90. 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

91. Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

92. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, is the next best. ~William Thackeray

93. Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. ― Brian Celio

94. Sometimes, some things are meant to end. It is necessary to start new things in your life. The same rules apply to love. When love disappears from a relationship, there is no reason to keep it. Just because it existed once, is not a good reason to drag a relationship.

95. You cannot truly let go until you accept that despite the pain he caused, he brought you far greater and unimaginable joy.

96. Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? ― Audrey Niffenegger

97. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. ~William Shakespeare

98. Love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.

Healing Quotes About Love Lost

99. The hardest thing I have ever done is walk away still madly in love with you.

100. Love is timeless; love is immortal. Even if you lose someone to something as permanent as death, the love you once had will never fade away. It will caress you every day, reminding you of the everlasting sweetness of honey.

101. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. – Mignon McLaughlin

102. There can’t be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there’s always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments. ― Terry Mark

103. I will never truly get over your loss, but there is nothing left to do but move on and make way for a bright and new day.

104. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. ― Nicholas Sparks

105. I’ve always wondered what losing a limb would feel like. I stopped wondering the moment you left me for good.

106. You never truly get over losing someone. You may forgive, you may forget. But you can never stop the memories of sweetness and joy from creeping in when you least expect them to.

107. What should I do without you? I simply cannot imagine.

108. There is love of course. And then there’s life, it’s the enemy. – Jean Anouilh

109. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

110. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” Socrates

111. “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

112. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” ~ Erich Fromm

113. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

114. “When we go back into the past and rake up all the troubles we’ve had, we end up reeling and staggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.” Pam W. Vredevelt

115. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, / Men were deceivers ever, / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never.” Otomo No Yakamochi

116. “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

117. “Pain is never permanent.” ~ Teresa of Avila

Healing Quotes on Lost Love

118. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” Teresa Medeiros

119. “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

120. “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.” Nicholas Sparks

121. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” Washington Irving

122. “When raindrops hit the tin roof it’s crazy. That’s a metaphor, did I lose you, baby?” ~ Drake

123. “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

124. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” ~ Julia Roberts

125. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” ~ H. L. Mencken

126. “Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.” Anonymous

127. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

128. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” Sienna Miller

129. “Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

130. “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

131. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton, Lost Love quotes broken

132. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss

133. “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

134. “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on.” Bob Newhart

135. “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.” G. K. Chesterton