Top 100 Love Loss Quotes
#1. I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.
Taraji P. Henson
#2. How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?
Jeanette Winterson
#4. Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery
Pete Wentz
#5. The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#6. My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
#7. Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.
Matthew Hussey
#8. Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
Tristan Wilds
#9. This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.
Ann Aguirre
#10. One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?
Dada Bhagwan
#11. This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.
Brenda Perlin
#12. You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
Dee Remy
#13. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.
David Anthony Durham
#14. May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.
Herculine Barbin
#15. William's mother, dead these six years. He spoke of her with love, but without grief. Six years, and whatever the loss, happiness steals back.
Mary Stewart
#16. It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
Eric Morgenstern
#18. I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that.
Kate McGahan
#19. Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out.
Nick Hornby
#20. There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive and make it through living still.
Sandi Morgan Denkers
#21. Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
Eric Gamalinda
#22. I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much.
Ida Lokas
#23. Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.
Leah Hager Cohen
#24. In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love
Euripides
#25. I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames.
Jenim Dibie
#26. What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.
Azar Nafisi
#28. For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?
Elaine White
#29. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
Jodi Picoult
#30. I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I'll miss my best friend or your child, who was every inch a son to me.
Fiona McIntosh
#31. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.
Matt Damon
#32. To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be, it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
William Shakespeare
#33. Loss is a part of life, that doesn't make it easy ... that makes it inevitable ...
Marcus Harrison Green
#34. I don't know how long it's been since I've been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.
I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I'm not here anymore.
Jessica Verdi
#35. It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#36. Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.
Louise Doughty
#37. As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light - it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#38. Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you'd like.
Lynsay Sands
#39. When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#40. You don't fall in love with the person responsible for your greatest loss. And God help you if you do.
Elizabeth Finn
#41. What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.
Justin Cronin
#42. If I were today on my deathbed, I would name my love of the color blue and making love with you as two of the sweetest sensations I knew on this earth.
Maggie Nelson
#43. It has been utterly exhausting to love you.
Tan Redding
#44. Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.
Faraaz Kazi
#45. Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#46. You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.
Non Pratt
#47. Are you in love with him?'
She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.
'Are you in love with me?'
She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.
Tan Redding
#48. On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
Esther Perel
#49. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.
Brandon M. Herbert
#50. One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that I should remember her with that star because it would always be there-that it was her with me.
Rebecah McManus
#51. Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.
Stephanie Beatriz
#52. I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
Taylor Swift
#53. But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!
George Arnold
#54. You never can lose anything without gaining something. So forget the fear of loss and concentrate on the beauty of gain.
Debasish Mridha
#55. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.
Jenim Dibie
#56. Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
Robin Williams
#58. You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.
Karen Quan
#59. With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.
Melissa Hill
#60. Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
Sally Mann
#61. My parents had never been showy or romantic; it was only after the loss of my father that I began to understand how truly in love they had been, in their quiet way.
Anonymous
#62. Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.
Claudia Gray
#63. Learning to live again wholeheartedly includes letting love flow freely in and out of your heart.
Elizabeth Berrien
#64. We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.
Haruki Murakami
#65. I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.
Francesca Lia Block
#66. A person can't possibly live without the one person that gave them life.
Trina Etmanskie
#67. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
Pam Houston
#68. Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.
Wendy Walker
#69. Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.
Mari Mancusi
#70. His absence is so big it's like he's there.
Patrick Ness
#71. The loss of her parents was an echo now. She hadn't stopped missing them and figured she never would. It was just that it was no longer a pain she ran from, but a lesson in how love morphs with loss and what you remember of those you loved.
J.H. Croix
#72. During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.
Miriam Toews
#73. You have filled every fibre of my soul and the spaces in between
Zahraa Arif
#74. There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace ...
Barbara Woodall
#75. Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#76. When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#77. You can't learn anything from losing someone you love. Any lesson you learn from that isn't a lesson. It's a compromise with life. A lie you tell yourself.
Sonali Dev
#78. Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#79. For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is to encourage the books to leave.
Lindsey Drager
#80. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.
Alvaro De Campos
#81. I Cannot Remember You
... engulfed in liquid amnesia
I cannot fight the tide
Muse
#82. This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
Sylvia Brownrigg
#83. ... the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.
Betty Smith
#84. The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more we love. It comes full circle. Life is the school, love is the lesson. We cannot lose.
Kate McGahan
#85. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.
Tess Thompson
#86. I didn't want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.
Brenda Perlin
#88. Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Laozi
#89. If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Margaret Weis
#90. If I love one lover,...I have loved many more.
Edna Stewart
#91. But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
Dennis Lehane
#92. Because some things in life just hurt so much that you need to feel physical pain to start to heal from it.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
#93. The kiss grew into so much more than anything that had come before, unfettered by a time that strived to contain passion, born from perceived loss and glorious gain.
Susan Catalano
#94. I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,
C.S. Pacat
#95. To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it's a risk that's worth taking.
Deirdre Martin
#96. Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.
Joseph G. Peterson
#97. To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought ... ?
Roland Barthes
#98. Goodbye," she told him, running her hand across his broad back one last time. "I love you. And I'll never, ever stop missing you.
Kate Lattey
#99. Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it.
Nicola Yoon
#100. He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.
Michael Cunningham
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