Losing love is always hard. If you are looking for a lost love quote to help explain how you feel, you have come to the right place. We have gathered all the best long lost love quotes that are moving, short, or inspiring.
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Short Love Lost Quotes for Instagram
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” ― Jean Anouilh
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand.” ― Dorothy Parker
“No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.” ― Lana Del Rey
“The great love is gone.” ― Mercedes Lackey
“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” ― Barbara De Angelis
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” ― Socrates
“Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Liveit fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.” – Maxime Lagace
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” ― Jean de La Fontaine
“When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters.” ― Agnetha Faltskog
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” ― Sienna Miller
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” ― Richard Wilbur
“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it.” ― Sam Worthington
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
“To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.” ― William Thackeray
“Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.” ― Brian Celio
“All I know is, being away from you……makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much” – Samantha Towle
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Love of my Life Quotes, Love You More Quotes, Funny Love Quotes and Couple Love Quotes.
Lost Love Quotes to Help You Move On
“Then I said goodnight and tucked you away inside a place called Nostalgia, where you’ll always remain unspoiled, somewhere between my lungs that used to breathe ocean air and my belly that fluttered with hope.” ― Victoria Erickson
“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.” ― Harold Loukes
“I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.” ― Richard Simmons
“I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.” ― The Wonder Years
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Your memory feels like home to me. So, whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.” ― Ranata Suzuki
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” ― Hermann Hesse
“Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee.” ― Algernon Charles Swinburne
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ― Mignon McLaughlin
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” ― J.S.B. Morse
“Peace can only be achieved by letting go of the past and accepting what is.” – Abhishek Kumar
“Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don’t believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn’t work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.” ― Bipasha Basu
“I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“The pain of missing you is a beautiful reminder of the joy of loving you.” — Dean Jackson
“I miss you a little. A little too much, a little too often, and a little bit more every day.” —John Michael Montgomery
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think I don’t have her. To feel that I’ve lost her. To hear the immense night, more immense without her. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.” ― Pablo Neruda
“I have loved and I have lost and I’m starting to believe; it’s okay. Sometimes what we “think” is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly “meant” for us. And if I have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; I am content in knowing the greatest love I will ever experience, hasn’t even begun yet.” ― Nikki Rowe
“I keep myself busy with the things I do. But in every moment when I pause, I still think of you.”– Mitch Cuento
“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.” ― Nan Goldin
“I think the worst feeling in the world is knowing that someone you used to talk to everyday doesn’t care about you anymore.” ― Anmol Andore
“I can go days without talking to you, months without seeing you, but not a second goes by that I’m not thinking about you.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
“Between a million yesterdays and a million tomorrows, there’s only one today. And I would never let it pass without telling you I’m thinking of you.” – Mitch Cuento
“So, here I am, all by myself, thinking of you – no one else. There’s a feeling inside and as hard as I try, it just won’t go away.” – Angel Hema
“And if ever I’m alone you’ll say. I’ll be thinking about you.” — Calvin Harris
“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” – A.A. Milne
“I have learned how to make time pass, but I never stop thinking of you.” – Abbas Kazerooni
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not.” ― Dylan Thomas
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.” – Euripides
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along.”– Rumi
“Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.” – Farooq A. Shiekh
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
“I just like to sing for people who have lost love.” ― Mac Miller
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” ― John Green
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine
“I think I’d miss you even if we never met.” — The Wedding Date
“I miss you like the sun misses the flowers, like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world which your absence has banished me to.” – William in “A Knight’s Tale”
“Sometimes I miss you so much, it hurts. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart with the strength of the entire world.”― Colleen Hoover
“I miss you every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of every day.” — Shanece
“Missing you comes in waves, and tonight I’m drowning.” – Chris Young
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” – Franz Kafka
“I miss you in ways that not even words can understand.” — Gemma Troy
“But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly.” — Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
“Think I’ll miss you forever. Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.” —Lana Del Rey
“Half of me is missing … and the other half is missing you.” – Ranata Suzuki
“I only miss you when I’m breathing.” — Jason Derulo
“Oh my dear! I think about you always and miss you forever.” – Debasish Mridha
“When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So, go back and fight to keep it.” ― Ian McEwan
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ― Washington Irving
“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.” ― Stendhal
“I don’t think, until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.” ― Felicity Kendal
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker
“There can’t be a perfect replacement for those we lost, whom we love so much. But there’s always a kind replacement, strong and caring enough to take us through those lonely moments.” ― Terry Mark
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” ― Samuel Butler
“Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.” ― Faraaz Kazi
Quotes About Losing Love
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone. You just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” ― Alyson Noel
“I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.” – Rupert Brooke
“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” ― Jonathan Harnisch
“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” ― George R.R. Martin
“Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision, a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.” ― Teresa Medeiros
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straightway was lost.” ― Dante Alighieri
“Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest.” – Edin Dzeko
“Time only teaches us to conceal our pain from others and we learn to grieve all by ourselves.” ― Narin Grewal
“There is a comfort in the strength of love; Would overset the brain or break the heart.” ― William Wordsworth
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.” ― Jennette Lee
“You want her, you need her, you had her, you lost her.”
“I went to sleep last night thinking about you, I woke up this morning still thinking about you. When I’m down, I whisper your name to myself and smile. I still love you, don’t doubt it.” – Terry Mark
“His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.” ― Rainbow Rowell
“Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.” – John Green
“There’s solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”― Jim Crace
“I’m still missing you. Well I guess that I have, I guess that I have never really had you.”― Tegan Quin
“You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.” – Ranata Suzuki
“So, here I am, all by myself, thinking of you – no one else. There’s a feeling inside and as hard as I try, it just won’t go away.” – Angel Hema
“I am thinking of you, In my sleepless solitude tonight. If it’s wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right. ‘Cause I’m drowned in you, And I won’t pull through, without you by my side.” – Mariah Carey
“You will always be the answer when somebody asks me what I’m thinking about.” – Lisa Brooks
“Late at night when all the world is sleeping, I stay up and think of you. And I wish on a star that somewhere you are thinking of me too.” – Selena Quintanilla Perez
I Lost You Quotes
“I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.” ― Plato
“A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals.” ― C. Elizabeth
“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” ― Ranata Suzuki
“I just wish I could lose these feelings as fast as I lost you.”
“If this is my heartache, then let it be mine to endure. Permit me to feel it in its entirety. Don’t tell me how much of you I am allowed to love.” ― Lang Leav
“Just because we don’t talk doesn’t mean I don’t think about you. I’m just trying to distance myself because I know I can’t have you.” ― Wiz Khalifa
“Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.” ― Otomo No Yakamochi
“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.” ― Toni Morrison
“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?” ― Shannon L. Alder
“All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear, anger, love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually, it falls apart.” ― Kirsten Miller
“If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again.” ― Amelie Chance
“From the day you walked into my life, you’re all I think about. You’re the reason I breathe. You are the stars in my sky. I wouldn’t want this any other way. You’re the love of my life.” – Kemis Khan
“But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” – Calla Quinn
“Long after I have given up, my heart still searches for you without my permission.”– Rudy Francisco
“I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are memories and secrets.”― Alyse M. Gardner
“Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful “I miss you.”― Richelle E. Goodrich
“You never really stop missing someone —you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.” —Alyson Noel
“I don’t know where you are, but I miss you. I don’t know what you’re doing, but I’m thinking of you.” – London Mond
“I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment you left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million.”― J.A. Huss
“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.” – Tegan Quin
“Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” ― Hermann Hesse
“Who knows how long I’ve loved you, you know I love you still. Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will.” ― The Beatles
“It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.” ― Laurence J. Peter
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” ― Daphne Rose Kingma
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Maraboli
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