Top 100 Love Is Losing Quotes
#1. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.
Skye Warren
#2. Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.
Lana Del Rey
#3. The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.
Richard Rohr
#4. I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.
Andrew Murray
#5. Though I guess if you love someone, the thought of losing their approval is probably twice as terrifying.
Riley Redgate
#6. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.
Anna Quindlen
#7. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.
Andrew Peterson
#8. But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.
Benedict Freedman
#9. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
Lena Headey
#10. Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret
Is this fragile love
A way
To say
Good-bye
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. Losing love is like a window in your heart ...
Paul Simon
#12. What is it?
Nothing. I had a bad dream.
What did you dream about?
Nothing.
Are you okay?
No.
He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.
I was crying. But you didnt wake up.
I'm sorry. I was just so tired.
I meant in the dream.
Cormac McCarthy
#13. Because of love, of course. The more you love something, the harder it is to lose.
Ava Dellaira
#14. Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
Emile M. Cioran
#15. Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.
Cassandra Clare
#16. I don't want to be just comfortable, Mom. I want a love that makes me everything but comfortable. If it doesn't drive me mad, if it doesn't break my heart at the thought of losing it, if it doesn't push me to new places and force me to grow - what kind of love is it, really?
Kandi Steiner
#17. Loving someone doesn't suck. Losing the person you love is what sucks.
Kathryn Perez
#18. Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.
Jerry Hall
#19. Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.
Ellen Pompeo
#20. How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
Sonia Johnson
#22. The worst thing in life is not losing the one you love, it's losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#23. I love you, Brooke. The only thing that frightens me more than the idea of losing you is never having you at all.
Harper Dallas
#24. It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
David Brooks
#25. If she is to love life and freedom and be brave then she must learn to let go. To see beauty without clinging to it, to feel pain without holding it hostage, and to feel love without worry of losing it.
G.G. Renee Hill
#26. Moving on should be a required high school class
because Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.
Taylor Rhodes
#27. What I remember most is the searing sensation of looking into her eyes for the first time,eyes that would hunt me for the rest of my life
Jonathan Hull
#28. Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.
J.M. Coetzee
#29. Losing love is lonely. Losing it because of something you did is deathly.
Karina Halle
#30. Echo:"The thing about love is you always end up losing it."
Cora: "Oh but what you miss if you wont take the chance.
Linda Lael Miller
#31. If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#32. ...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.
Love Professor - to Jennifer
Jennifer Cox
#33. Time is a place where most of the relationships get lost. And, the ugliest part is that there are no lost and found boxes. There is no hope that you might get it back.
Himanshu Chhabra
#34. He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.
Michael Ondaatje
#35. Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.
James Marsden
#36. Yes, I'm satisfied, but the problem is you're not, and never will be. You're insecure, afraid of losing everything you've achieved; you don't know how to quit once you're ahead. You'll end up destroying yourself. You're killing our marriage and my love.
Paulo Coelho
#37. Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.
Cassandra Clare
#38. Love is not a game, ladies. Treat it like one, and you're bound to lose. Everyone talks about the rewards of finding that one person. Nobody warns you about the pain of losing him.
Lauren Layne
#39. Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
Franz Kafka
#40. Honey, if he doesn't get you and treat you like a queen, move on! Your king is out there! Life is way too short to be losing precious time over a loser. Love yourself and know you deserve a healthy and happy relationship.
Jamie Beckman
#41. Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
Amy Winehouse
#42. Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#43. My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.
Mollie King
#44. When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill
#45. Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
C.S. Lewis
#46. There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#47. Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
Aretha Franklin
#48. Blessed is the woman who has never had anything to love. She can never know the heartbreak that comes with losing it.
Kenn Bivins
#49. 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
#50. And writers say, as the most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Even so by love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Losing his verdure even in the prime,
And all the fair effects of future hopes.
William Shakespeare
#51. Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.
Ira N. Barin
#52. My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
Melanie Klein
#53. Do you love her?"
"Yeah."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Because relationships end."
"What?"
"If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship is real. It lasts, and it's safe."
"Loving someone, being loved ... it's worth the pain of losing them.
Rachel Harris
#54. Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.
Carl Froch
#55. I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar
#56. Luna, the thought of losing you is like losing my heart. You have me completely, and if you died because I wasn't there to protect you, it would kill me. I know you're strong, I know you're different, but that doesn't change my natural instincts. I still have to protect you.
Justine Winter
#57. You see, with you, the thing that scares me isn't the thought of losing you. What scares me is not having you in my life in the first place.
Melissa Collins
#58. And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.
Seth King
#59. Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?"
"You're fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You're just losing horribly.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
Atul Purohit
#61. Love is worth the pain, but I ate losing people. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd rather be miserable with you than be miserable without you.
Jay Bell
#62. The fear of losing each other is always stronger than the pain we cause.
Krista Ritchie
#63. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn
Cassandra Clare
#64. It is far easier for us to accept the death of someone we love than to cope with the idea of losing him and discovering that he is able to carry on with his life, in all its intricacies, despite our absence.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
#65. He's losing weight," I say. "He doesn't sleep anymore." It occurs to me that this is how cults weaken the will of initiates.
Robert says, "It sounds to me like he's in love," and adds that the world's most coveted state is characterized by unrelieved insecurity and almost constant pain.
Melissa Bank
#66. How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.
Fulton J. Sheen
#67. No one can claim they are mature until they experience the hallucinogenic ramifications of being in love, and undertaken an urgent personal assessment and soul-searching discernment that is mandated after experiencing the bitterness of losing in the love game.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#68. If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
Martin Jacques
#69. No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
George Sand
#70. The pain of losing people you love is the price of the ticket for getting to know them at all.
Jill McCorkle
#71. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
Roger Kahn
#72. I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.
Jennie Finch
#73. Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.
Franklin Veaux
#74. Sometimes it is the sharp contrasts in life, the bitter and the sweet; things not working out as planned, relationships falling apart, losing your loved ones - these are the things that shake you and make you appreciate life, see the good in it and love anew the people around you.
Amy Passantino
#75. I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.
Daniel Sharman
#76. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.
Cora Reilly
#77. To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back - no hope to ever make my heart complete without him
J.C. Reed
#78. Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.
Sue Merrell
#79. I think the level of casualties is secondary ... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war ... What we hate is not casualties but losing.
Michael A. Ledeen
#80. Freedom ... is about how you can survive after things are taken from you. It is about the prospect of losing what you love and the effort it takes to continue.
Indira Ganesan
#81. Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.
Jerry Lewis
#82. I know that love is giving yourself to someone else. Giving yourself to someone without losing yourself
Tiffany Reisz
#83. When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that's all the magic there is to it.
Nadege Richards
#84. Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love
S.E. Sever
#85. Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
Daley Thompson
#86. What is gentlest in love is love's violence.
Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal.
Love makes you suffer, as love makes you whole.
Love steals your everything and makes you rich.
Love is both meaningless and poetry.
Captured by love, by love you are set free.
Marilyn Nelson
#87. My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
Bonnie Tyler
#88. This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.
Suzanne Finnamore
#89. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.
J. Jack Halberstam
#90. True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!
J.P. Vaswani
#91. And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.'
Paul Simon
#92. If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
Paulo Coelho
#93. Love is An invited deal for losing peace
Seema Gupta
#94. I chose you not because I want you, but because I love you ...
I preferred to be with you not because I have to, but because I can't live without you ...
I'm scared of losing you not because I need you, but because my everything is you ...
NerD_Seyer
#95. I used to think the worst feeling in the world is losing someone you love. But I was wrong the worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you've lost yourself.
L.J.Smith
#96. Love is full of risks. Losing the person you love is one of them, and you have to be willing to take it.
Ashley Drew
#97. Yeah, and I honestly don't hold it against you anymore. Ben's an amazing guy, and I bet losing someone like that hurt pretty damn bad. You both paid for what happened, which is a shame, because love shouldn't have a price.
Jay Bell
#98. The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.
Tom Robbins
#99. And it wasn't that I didn't love Rob anymore; it was more like every day since I came home from California I felt like I was losing myself more and and more. And the relationship you have with yourself is the one that you really can't afford to lose.
Jenna Beaugh
#100. Everyone says that loves hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuse these things with love but reality, love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.
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