Quotes About Long Lost Love

#1. I think that the right girl can wipe away the memories of the wrong girl." Wow. Okay.
"Sure." But I don't think that. If that were true, there wouldn't be so many humans pining for their long, lost love. We didn't always
want what was right. We wanted what we couldn't have

Tarryn Fisher

#2. Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

Amy Dickinson

#3. 'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride!

Antony Starr

#4. I had successfully attended an event by myself. I had done something that was important to me, regardless of the fact that no one else wanted to go, and I had reconnected with my long lost love of fashion. I was not shunned. I did not die or spontaneously burst into flames. In fact, I was just fine.

Geva Salerno

#5. I don't know how long is too long, but I do know that your struggles don't make you weak or abnormal. They make you human.

Marcus Harrison Green

#6. I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.

Colleen Hoover

#7. No matter where you go, or however long you're there, you can always come back home to me. Whether tears or smiles cloud your eyes, you can rest upon your knees. Whether you have found yourself, or lost your sense of purpose along the way, I'll be there to take you in. I won't give you away.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#8. She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn't even tell him.

Justine Dell

#9. I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once - I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

James Baldwin

#10. Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

Lemony Snicket

#11. The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.

Alessandra Torre

#12. 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

#13. The love of one's life was never that which you wished for or hoped for or forgot or lost or mistook; it was the partner you spent your long days with ...

Kameron Hurley

#14. I almost lost you."
"No, never. I would've fought. However long it took. I'd never give up until I was free. You're my life, Jonah. My family, my love, my best friend. Nothing, not even destiny, could keep me from you."
He leans forward and brushes his lips against mine.
"Okay.

J.B. Salsbury

#15. I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. Why are you so upset? Why do you look like you've just lost your heart? Because the guy you've wanted for so long finally wants to be with you? Or because the guy you actually love thinks the worst of you?

Brynna Gabrielson

#17. My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Dolly Parton

#18. True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green.

Dante Alighieri

#19. Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.

Richard Powers

#20. A 'hello again' after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.

Jessiqua Wittman

#21. ... she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much

Justine Dell

#22. No matter how much he loved me. No matter how much I loved him in return. I would never, ever belong to another person. As long as I lived.

J.L. Berg

#23. I walked into the bathroom and stared at myself for a long time in the mirror, unable to see who was looking back at me-the girl broken and lost to a man she fell in love with or a woman who learned to survive with a broken heart. Maybe I was a little of both.

Nashoda Rose

#24. The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.

Ashley D. Wallis

#25. My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Kenny Loggins

#26. It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

Aaliyah

#27. In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost
In the long run.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#28. Hey, you're the one who can't stand me being so close to you.

Justine Dell

#29. He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

Gayle Forman

#30. Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough ... maybe something good finally happens.

Rick Remender

#31. Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind," she said with a hint
of sadness.
"You lost your mind a long time ago," he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. "That's a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind," he reaffirmed her.

Daniel J. Rice

#33. You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.

Rachel Vincent

#34. If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

Pete Doherty

#35. I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Jonathan Tropper

#36. She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing in the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect.

Kate Atkinson

#37. Have you ever met someone and felt like you've known them forever?

Michelle Madow

#38. Another flash of recognition sped through her mind. It's him, her thoughts whispered through the fog of arousal. And she wanted to know who he was. What else he could do for her. What he'd feel like inside her. What he would unleash within her.

Justine Dell

#39. I thought I lost you again. You couldn't know what those four years were like. To not know where you were, who you were with, or if you were being treated well? I wasn't sure for a long time if you were even alive. I don't ever want to go through that again. Vance ... The Elder Effect

D.L. Given

#40. Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time ... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

Claude Debussy

#41. I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.

Sara Teasdale

#42. And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.

Jean Rhys

#43. Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#44. But she bravely kept her eyes open; she was both lost and found in the soft, burning depths of his eyes.

Julie Anne Long

#45. As long as you have at least one thing anchoring you, you can't get too lost.

Meghan March

#46. Life wasn't for lamenting what you'd lost. It was for enjoying what you had, for however long you got to have it. While it was always terrible to lose those precious to you, it was far more terrible never to have had them at all.

Sabrina Jeffries

#47. What's bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I'm not comfortable with that.

Justine Dell

#48. You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

Orson F. Whitney

#49. His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.

Justine Dell

#50. A dream you once were,
A dream of all my realities,
A dream I can no long strive for
In the wake of my manly betayals

C. Elizabeth

#51. Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Aberjhani

#52. Love is short, but forgetting is long.

Pablo Neruda

#53. Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go

Justine Dell

#54. I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.

Joseph Conrad

#55. I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

Lauren Weisberger

#56. The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.

Mark Doty

#57. May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.

Rod McKuen

#58. He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love,

Victor Hugo

#59. I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!

Stephen Schwartz