Losing Love Quotes

“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.
It is as if I could dip my hand down

into time and scoop up
blue and green lozenges of April heat
a year ago in another country.

I can feel that other day running underneath this one
like an old videotape”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.

Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.”
― Nenia Campbell, Touched with Sight

“You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable.”
― Richard Paul Evans, A Step of Faith

“Love lost isn’t the end; it can always be found again if you’re open to it.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Finding His Redemption

“There's only one thing worse than never having found love, and that's finding it and having it taken away from you - then you truly know what you've lost.”
― Stewart Stafford

“How wonderful it was to be loved so much by that selfless and magnificent man. And how awful, unbearable – here Carol cried even louder – to never see him again, to lose him forever!”
― Irvin Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“But to have found true love and lost it, and yet still have a sliver of hope of getting it back, was another type of torture entirely.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Ella didn’t know what to say, except the truth. “Your father and I have been married a long time. It’s difficult to remain in love after so many years.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“I watched them drive away. The Citroën was bright green and jolted slightly. The sun went on shining.”
― Olaf Olafsson, The Sacrament

“It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn’t lose them.”
― Dominic Riccitello