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Famous Loved And Lost Quotes

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

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

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - William Makepeace Thackeray

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Though lovers be lost love shall not. — Dylan Thomas

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

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart. — Robert Wagner

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. — George Crabbe

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

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on. — Barbara De Angelis

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. — Robin Williams

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. — Sigmund Freud

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

Short Loved And Lost Quotes

  • 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 might be lost. — G. K. Chesterton
  • Love, and you shall be loved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera
  • To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything. — Themis Tolis
  • To have a woman is bad; to lose her is worse. — Danish Proverbs
  • We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri
  • Grief is love turned into an eternal missing — Rosamund Lupton
  • All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. — Ovid

Top 10 Loved And Lost 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Loved And Lost Image Quotes

Loved and lost 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.

Better To Have Loved And Lost Quotes

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. — Leo Buscaglia

We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter. — Heidi Klum

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. — Laurence J. Peter

Loved and lost 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.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney. — Herb Caen

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

Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. — Otomo no Yakamochi

Loved and lost 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.

Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both. — Jon Richardson

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; '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 to have paid for it and not liked it at all. — Graham Davies

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson

I Have Loved And Lost 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

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

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

Loved and lost 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.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see. — Jack Lemon

This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her. — Susan Griffin

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

Loved and lost 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.

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

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account. — Chris Christie

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift. — Michael Milken

I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray. — Oliver Herford

I've Loved And Lost Quotes

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place. — Baz Luhrmann

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost. — Anton Chekhov

The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet. — Hulk Hogan

Loved and lost 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.

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week. — Michael Symon

Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems. — Maxine Hong Kingston

I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information. — Jarvis Cocker

Loved and lost 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.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. — David Nicholls

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. — Sam Worthington

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing. — Fran Drescher

I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want. — Kobe Bryant

I've Loved And I've Lost Quotes

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed. — Mikhail Prokhorov

I love the fact you can walk down a street in London and get lost, even though you've lived here 20 years. — Stephen Moyer

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is. — Patti Smith

Loved and lost 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.

I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. I love doing them, but sometimes you wanna completely try something different and create something unique and get lost in it a bit because it's completely far away from me. — Sam Worthington

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal. — Robert Crais

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. — Aunjanue Ellis

Loved and lost 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.

My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again — Jim Croce

I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy. — Lisa Kleypas

Lost Love 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

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

Loved and lost 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.

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

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

Loved and lost quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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

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

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

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

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

Love Is Lost Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. — Jess C Scott

Lost But Found Quotes

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. — Thomas Jefferson

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see. — John Newton

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. — Emo Philips

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. — Julia Quinn

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva. — Sylvia Day

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere. — Samuel Rutherford

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing. — Shaun Tan

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine. — Rabindranath Tagore

I once was lost, but now am found. — John Newton

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

Lost And Found Quotes

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys. — Sarah Dessen

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found. — Andy Andrews

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it. — Carole King

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing — Adrian Grenier

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received. — Ryan Reynolds

Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis. — Frederick Lenz

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found. — Claire LaZebnik

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. — Saint Augustine

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More Loved And Lost 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

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

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

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

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates

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

Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Green

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society. — Marilyn Manson

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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