Better To Have Loved Quotes

#1. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.

Ben Marcus

#2. It is better to have loved an lossed than to never have loved at all

William Shakespeare

#3. They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what.

Mark Goddard

#4. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#5. She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

Emily Giffin

#6. It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.

Joey Green

#7. Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.

Bart Yates

#8. It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it" UNKNOWN

Bill Westbrook

#9. Whoever said it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all was a moron.

Kim Askew

#10. 'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.
Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.

Nenia Campbell

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Was it really? Better to have trusted and been deceived? Better to have shared your soul with another human being, only to find that honor meant nothing to him?

Kathryn Johnson

#14. "better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Harlan Coben

#15. 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

#16. What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost...

Priya Basil

#17. Whoever said it was better to have loved and lost was completely full of shit.

Paula Stokes

#18. And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks.

Mira Jacob

#19. Finding dominant strategies is considerably easier than finding the Holy Grail. (...) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. In other words, love is a dominant strategy.

Avinash K. Dixit

#20. Whoever said it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved was full of crap.

Rachel Vincent

#21. Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Big Pun

#22. Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Ava Gardner

#23. I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

William Jackson

#24. All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

Melinda Gates

#25. Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.

Kim Gordon

#26. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

William Congreve

#27. When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

Patricia McBride

#28. Better to have rarely loved and hardly lost, than ever to have loved at all. Better to be safe than sorry, better to stay out of the kitchen if you don't want to get burned

Charlotte Stein

#29. It's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.
Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not.

Marina And The Diamonds

#30. Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

Walt Whitman

#31. Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.

Phil Ochs

#32. The old dictum was backward. It should be "Better not to
have loved at all, than to love and have lost." I had done the
right thing, I reassured myself. So why did it feel like I had
made the biggest mistake of my life?

Amy Plum

#33. I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better ... I have wanted the impossible ...

Rachilde

#34. Do you not think we would be wiser to cherish each moment we have as God's gift? I would say 'tis better to love and be loved, if only for a day, than to have not loved at all.

Jody Hedlund

#35. Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

William Congreve

#36. Rest. Let the letting
go. It is better to heal
than not to have loved at all.

Jerrold Yam

#37. ... my fingers slowly threading through his hair as he explained in great detail how he planned on showing me when I got better just how much he loved me, so much detail I was sure my face was as red as a tomato, but boy did I have something to look forward to.

J. Lynn

#38. I should have known better than to trust a man who loved power ballads.

Jodi Picoult

#39. I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Giacomo Casanova

#40. There lies the image of our past and of our future," cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. "Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?" "I

Arthur Conan Doyle

#41. Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

George Crabbe

#42. I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

Lauryn Hill

#43. She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Charles Dickens

#44. Oh mysterious world ... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Paul Gauguin

#45. To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

Arthur Symons

#46. I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

Lee Tamahori

#47. It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

Salman Khan

#48. I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you."
-from "To You

Walt Whitman

#49. One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Andy Murray

#50. Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

Jason Reitman

#51. Better not to have loved at all, than to love and have lost.

Amy Plum

#52. No, Mother, it is better as it is, and I'm glad Amy has learned to love him. But you are right in one thing. I am lonely, and perhaps if Teddy had tried again, I might have said 'Yes,' not because I love him any more, but because I care more to be loved than when he went away.

Louisa May Alcott

#53. And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#54. The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Marge Piercy

#55. Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

Louisa May Alcott

#56. Don't you have something better to do right now, like chase after that polar bear dude or find that toilet paper your kind are so fond of?" She loved how his lips turned into a grin. "Only the softest for my sweet cheeks.

Eve Langlais

#57. The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.

Eddy Cue

#58. I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

Hugh Laurie