176 Lost Love Quotes

Following is our list of lost love quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about sad lost love.

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Famous Lost Love Quotes

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. — Rich Mullins

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. — Michel Foucault

life without love, is no life at all - Leonardo da Vinci

life without love, is no life at all — Leonardo da Vinci

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben

Though lovers be lost love shall not. — Dylan Thomas

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. — John Lennon

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. — Ovid

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing — Rosamund Lupton

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. - Big Pun

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun

True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind. — Capital STEEZ

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now. — Buddha

Love comes again Just when I've broken down I found Love can come again You've got to believe that. — Tiesto

Short Lost Love Quotes

  • 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. — Samuel Butler
  • Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon
  • You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. — Robert Breault
  • Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs
  • The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. — W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love was like a toothache. — Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. — Washington Irving

Top 10 Lost Love Quotes

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. — St. Basil

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R. R. Martin

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. — G. K. Chesterton

There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. — Mencius

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lost Love Image Quotes

The longest journey begins with a single step. - Patanjali quote

The longest journey begins with a single step. — Patanjali

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lost love quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

Long Lost Love Quotes

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now — Edna St. Vincent Millay

A light heart lives long. — William Shakespeare

I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost! — Stephen Schwartz

Lost love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long... — Pete Doherty

May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God. — Rod McKuen

I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light. — Sara Teasdale

Lost love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. — Kenny Loggins

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. — John Henry Newman

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera

Sad Lost Love Quotes

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. — Brian Jacques

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? — Amy Tan

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. — Mitch Albom

Lost love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

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

I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay — Sara Evans

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. — Oscar Wilde

Lost love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man. — Oliver Platt

They always say the hottest love has the coldest end. — Drake

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone. — Mitch Albom

Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. — Robert Plant

Broken Heart Lost Love Quotes

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks

Lost love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. — John Mayer

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. — Stendhal

Lost love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart. — Ben Harper

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart. — LeBron James

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. — Rupert Brooke

Paradise Lost Love Quotes

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life. — John Milton

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. — John Milton

Lost love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. — John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. — John Milton

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss — John Milton

Lost love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. — Jean Klein

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else. — Madonna Ciccone

Finding Lost Love Quotes

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. — Leo Buscaglia

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. — John Owen

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. — Paulo Coelho

Lost love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost. — Avicii

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness. — Lily Collins

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao Tzu

Lost love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back. — John Bradshaw

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way. — Helene Cixous

Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost. — Leon Brown

One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. — Karen Marie Moning

My Lost Love Quotes

I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon

I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida. — Diego Rivera

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski

One love, one heart, one destiny. - Bob Marley

One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart. — Pablo Neruda

When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it. — Anthony Pettis

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. — Laird Hamilton

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure. — Jean Dubuffet

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird. — Laurens van der Post

Loved And Lost Quotes

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

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

A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections. — Paul Washer

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. — Earl A Grollman

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. — Paulo Coelho

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. — Simone de Beauvoir

God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous-not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that? — Stormie Omartian

If you love something, set it free. — Abraham Lincoln

Love Is Lost Quotes

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share. — Watchman Nee

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. — Mitch Albom

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. - Irving Berlin

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. — Steven Moffat

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. — Thornton Wilder

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. — Stephanie Perkins

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. — Pittacus Lore

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No Love Lost Quotes

No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. — Gene Hill

Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when niggas call i just don not pick up the phone. — Wiz Khalifa

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us. — Oliver Goldsmith

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. — Yip Harburg

Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about. — Dawn Abraham

This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it. — Helen Humphreys

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

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment — Jim Butcher

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that. — Brian Andreas

You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love. — Smith Wigglesworth

Losing Love Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

Learn from yesterday, live for today. — Albert Einstein

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains. — Assata Shakur

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway

You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world — Trent Shelton

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck

After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace. — Helen Steiner Rice

It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride! — Fabolous

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

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More Lost Love Quotes

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift. — Elizabeth Edwards

It'll be dangerous," Nyssa warned him. "Hardship, monsters, terrible suffering. Possibly none of you will come back alive." "Oh." Suddenly Leo didn't look so excited. Then he remembered everyone was watching. "I mean... Oh, cool! Suffering? I love suffering! Let's do this. — Rick Riordan

This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I’m old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority. — Tom Hiddleston

The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love. — Kirk Franklin

The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it. — Tertullian

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. — Abraham Lincoln

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