Courtesy of Henrik Edberg at The Positivity Blog
“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Washington Irving
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”
Sienna Miller
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“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
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
Barbara De Angelis
“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.”
Gerald G. Jampolsky
“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
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Anais Nin
“I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”
Nicholas Sparks
“I don’t think, until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.”
Felicity Kendal
“I think the worst feeling in the world is knowing that someone you used to talk to everyday doesn’t care about you anymore.”
Anmol Andore
“You must be strong enough to know that love will come to you when you are ready. You must be strong enough to know when to say goodbye, and know that letting go is not weak.”
Marisa Donnelly
“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
Jonathan Harnisch
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”
Elana K. Arnold
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
Socrates
“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
“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
“To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.”
William Thackeray
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”
Leo Buscaglia
“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.”
Unknown
