Love Loss Quotes

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into
something better, something more beautiful.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real,
and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again."
"Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, you are instead learning in the breakup. You have learned that he has a desperate desire for intimacy
and then a desperate desire for the cave.
He will get lonely there eventually and come back."
"To me?"
He doesn't pause. "To someone new."
"And I'll have to watch another girl?"
"You will have to, but you will also know
what lies ahead for that poor girl.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“Of course he freaked me out.
Of course it's nothing to do with me.
But none of that matters.
He loved me and now he doesn't.
I was everything to him and now I am nothing.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone.
And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him.
The shame is overwhelming.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes,
I think he knew what he would do,
what he would have to do,
and he was mourning us.
He was mourning us the whole time.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Crush is only an illusion of love, u creates in your mind..”
― BHARAT SHARMA

“It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.”
― D.R. Hedge, The Geri Rogue

“My kicking and screaming is only to give you time to reconsider; You ought to know my silence is the sharpest arrow in my quiver!!!!!!!!!!”
― Renee' A. Lee

“My heart still full of her, Traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I thought to myself that a women unknown Had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes And I let the chilly statue pass Looking at the skies. Alfredde Musset”
― Fari Amini, A General Theory of Love

“I didn’t appreciate at that age the different way women loved, using their bodies and their heart and their spirit and their soul. I didn’t appreciate that they felt part of someone when they were in love with them. I promised myself I would never tell a woman I loved them unless I simply couldn’t bear not to. I told myself that relationships were not a game, no matter much everyone wants you to join in.”
― Guy Mankowski

“Who knew?
A fragile thing
Could fall in love
So easily
But be left
With nothing”
― Jennifer West, Jennifer Bares All

“It felt like an escape
But no matter how I felt
You were caught
Under another spell”
― Jennifer West, Jennifer Bares All

“You stole my heart
You whispered promise
You gave me hope
You left me
You shattered me”
― Jennifer West, Jennifer Bares All

“Looking up
At an empty black sky
Wishing beyond wishing
You were still by my side”
― Jennifer West, Jennifer Bares All

“I wrote this story because I needed to, when, so many years after losing my sister, I found myself daily, hourly sometimes, being touched by life in some way that brought up her "missing-ness." Like an invisible shard in my heart, it doesn't show when you look at me, but there it sits, in the center of my chest, a shard now turned to crystal that casts its light and color over my life. Inside that crystal, Kathy is still with me. I know I am not alone in this experience.”
― Maureen Callahan Smith

“It is better to know how love feels, how to give yourself to someone, how to form intimacy and create memories, than to travel through a cold life alone.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening