177 Deep Lost Love Quotes – Sad Love Messages

Lost love can be hard to find, or to bear. But many find peace within lost love. Sometimes lost love can be enough and can fulfil you enough before getting lost, for the rest of your life. Following are some quotes about lost love, I hope you like them. These Lost Love quotes will inspire you. Lost love, when you’ve lost someone that was your world. Someone who meant everything to you. Many of us have been down the road of heartbreak. It is a typical phenomenon. Boy meets girl. The two fall in love. After a period of romance, one of them dumps the other and moves on, while the other is left nursing heartbreak.

Lost Love Quotes

1. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

2. It takes a couple of seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye.

3. 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

4. A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

5. When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. ~Agnetha Faltskog

6. Still hoping we ride off into the sunset together. – Andy Atticus

7. Love all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want. ― Louisa May Alcott

8. 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

9. Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

10. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Unknown

11. She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. – Jonathan Safran Foer

12. Time only teaches us to conceal our pain from others and we learn to grieve all by ourselves. ― Narin Grewal

13. You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. ― John Green

14. If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again. – Amelie Chance

15. I know that’s what people say– you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, you’ll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him. ― Betty Smith

16. You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. – John Green

17. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Famous Losing Love Quotes

18. I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. – Nicholas Sparks

19. I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

20. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean De La Fontaine

21. 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

22. I keep telling myself that I’m over you, but whenever I hear my cellphone chime, I cannot help but wish that it’s a message from you.

23. I believe that losing someone does not cause us pain. Loving him does. It is love that makes us cry for him. It is love that makes our hearts ache. It is love that makes us want to be with him. And it is love that brings us pain.

24. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. ― William Thackeray

25. Your memory feels like home to me. So, whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ― Ranata Suzuki

26. Love can tear you apart… it can kill you. But if you’re lucky, it can put you back together.

27. You know you love someone when the idea of losing him is enough to give you the taste of the most hurtful pain in the world. Value your loved ones.

28. The grief of losing you made me feel so lost. But ironically, it is the same grief that keeps me going on with life.

29. Sometimes we choose to be in pain, you know why? because we held ourselves countable for the loss of love. Our brains program themselves into thinking that it was our fault. And the only way to let go of this pain is by forgiving our very own selves.

30. We can never let the pain of loss consume us. Life ahead of us demands so much more than this pathetic self of us. Try to find your happiness in what you have.

31. Death is like a thief that sneaks in at night. You never know that something special has been taken away until you wake up to nothingness.

32. Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

33. I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it. ~Sam Worthington

34. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? ~Terry Pratchett

Quotes about lost love to get you trough

35. It is funny how losing someone, who was never yours can hurt you so bad. But the best part is, it does not have to hurt that much. You have the power to stop it, you just have to unleash that power.

36. I was losing you was like losing a limb. I could function, but there was always something missing.

37. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight. – Lana Del Rey

38. I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life. – Mona Simpson

39. I buried you yesterday, but memories of you will keep on haunting me tomorrow and always.

40. Though I may have lost you, you will always have a space in the most beautiful part of my damaged soul.

41. When you lose someone, you have to accept that grief and love cannot be separated. For when you reminisce the joys of your sweet love, you will be awakened by the suffering you have tried so hard to keep at bay.

42. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. – Alphonse de Lamartine

43. When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.

44. True love never dies as we see in our eyes, only when we let go that we can truly say goodbye.

45. When I lost you, I felt as if the world ended. Time stopped for me and nothing else mattered. When I looked outside the window and saw that the birds continued to fly, I realized that the world will not accompany me in my grief. And life, as usual, will go on with our without me.

46. Pain is a part of love. But that doesn’t mean it should end in pain, and it doesn’t mean that you should seize yourself from loving, just because of the idea of pain. You can find the redemption from pain. Following section is all about love, loss, pain, and redemption. I hope you like it.

47. 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

48. Our love has become nothing but a memory I keep hidden deep inside the brightest part of my soul.

Sad Quotes for lost loved ones from remembrance

49. Loving you was easy, losing you was hard, and forgetting you is impossible.

50. 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

51. 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

52. Love is the one thing that makes us the most vulnerable. People can hurt you, without even hurting you.

53. I looked at the house with such great pain. Home. It is a sweet and foreign word to me now. Without you in it, what used to be a home is now nothing but a house.

54. I wondered if death was a better alternative to enduring the rest of my days without your sweet kisses to keep me alive.

55. When you love someone, and you’ve lost that one, then nothing really matters. ― Agnetha Faltskog

56. I keep on telling myself that I’m over you but whenever I hear my cellphone chime, I cannot help but wish that it’s a message from you.

57. 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

58. Pain is never permanent. Passing time can take it away from you. All you have to do is let it go.

59. Loss of the one you love the most is like someone has ripped open your lungs.

60. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

61. Do not fear, sweet child, and let yourself love. Do not be afraid of the pain of loss, for the sweetness of love far outweighs it.

62. Loss is a part of life, and you know what? Life is not fair at all. It does not care whether it is taking something important away from us. It just takes it, and the worst thing is that, it does not even need our permission to do so.

63. When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. – Unknown

64. 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

65. 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

66. Would I have been better off if I never knew you? I do not know, and I find myself not wanting to know at all.

67. Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind.

68. To welcome great beginnings, you must accept the possible sad endings that come with it.

69. You always told me that someday I had to prepare myself for the day when you would never come back. I tried, I really did, but nothing could ever prepare me for the day it actually happened.

Healing Quotes on Lost Love

70. People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime. ― Ethel Person

71. In this world, only the people who have most, lose the most. That is why I am afraid of love. Too much love scared the hell out of me. I stay in the constant fear of losing it. And the fear of future can ruin your present.

72. Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.

73. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. – Daphne Rose Kingma

74. 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

75. You must not cry because something has ended. Instead, smile because it happened.

76. It is always hard to lose somebody that you love. The loss leaves a hole in your heart that can never be repaired, only covered up.

77. 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

78. You never truly get over losing someone. You may forgive, you may forget. But you can never stop the memories of sweetness and joy from creeping in when you least expect it to.

79. I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.

80. I never knew you could experience hell on earth until I lost the one angel that brought me heaven on earth.

81. I wondered if dying was a better alternative to enduring the rest of my days without your sweet kisses to keep me alive.

82. 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

83. Never let loss decide, it only tends to make the wrong decisions.

84. Once you accept the loss, no one can stop you from moving on.

85. It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. – John Steinbeck

86. What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

87. I just wish I could lose these feelings as fast as I lost you.

88. When I lost you, I felt as if the world had ended. Time stopped for me, and nothing else mattered. When I looked outside the window and saw that the birds continued to fly, I realized that the world would not accompany me in my grief. And life, as usual, will go on with our without me.

89. 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

Healing Quotes About Love Lost

90. If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

91. Do not worry, everything you lose, come back in another form. Love has the same rules. You once gave to someone, is not going to waste. You are going to get it back, in one form or another. Karma is keeping the track.

92. I loved you, with everything I got. I gave you everything I had. And the result was nothing but betrayal, loneliness, and pain. But that is totally fine because it made me stronger, wiser, and better. Your loss was my vaccine,and now I am immune to pain.

93. How ironic it is that only loss can show us how important something is.

94. They continued to ask me what pain felt like. I looked them in the eye and told them that real pain is having to bury your one and only child.

95. There is a comfort in the strength of love; Would overset the brain or break the heart. ― William Wordsworth

96. God is closest to those with broken hearts.

97. The hardest thing I have ever done is walk away still madly in love with you.

98. To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. – William Thackeray

99. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable. – Nicholas Sparks

100. There were only two soul-stirring moments in my life. The first was when I met you, and the second was when I lost you.

101. The great love is gone. ― Mercedes Lackey

102. 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

103. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.

104. A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.

105. Sometimes you have to allow yourself to lose something great in order for something better to come in your life.

106. Love can never die, you can only lose it. It is because even when you are not with someone you love, you still love him, you still want best for him, and you still want his happiness. You never stop loving him, and that is why love can never die.

107. 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

108. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. ― Dorothy Parker

109. I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.

110. I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke

111. You cannot truly love until you accept that with the sweetness of love comes the horror of pain.

112. I walked away, and you did not stop me. That is the story of us, of our love, and how we lost it.

113. When you left me alone, did you even think about me for one? Did you think about how lost I was? Did you think about how much pain I must be in? It would hurt me the most is your answer will be a ‘yes’. It is because if you really thought about me, and left me anyway, that was a real cruelty.

Deep Lost Love Quotes

114. 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

115. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

116. Losing someone can hard. But life will go on and time will not stop for you. Now it is your choice whether you want to live that life with pain or with ease. It is because sometimes pain is a choice.

117. You cannot see loss, you cannot hear loss. There is only one thing you can do, and that is to feel it.

118. When you lose someone, there is no one to blame. Not even yourself. It can only make a loss more painful and longer. The loss is a loss as long as you consider it a loss. But once you make peace with it and let it be in the past, everything becomes easier.

119. To fully appreciate the wonders of joy and love, you also must understand the horror of pain and loss.

120. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. ― Dylan Thomas

121. 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

122. Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source. ~Brian Celio

123. Yes, your loss was the most painful thing to experience. Now you are not with me, but I have made peace with the idea of not being with you. And it does not hurt me anymore. But the fact that I cannot stop loving you, remains the same.

124. After you left me, I was stuck wondering where I should go to start anew. A voice in the wind told me that maybe I didn’t have to start over again. Maybe I just had to go on walking through this path, and apply the lessons losing you has taught me.

125. 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

126. Sometimes I lie on our bed, eyes open, heart pounding, wondering when I will fully comprehend that you are never going to lie here beside me once more

127. If you love something let it go, If it comes back to you it’s yours, If it doesn’t, it never was, and it’s not meant to be.

128. There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy. ― Jean Anouilh

129. Love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.

130. There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. ― Ranata Suzuki

131. Its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

132. I’ve always wondered which was worse- remembering or forgetting.

133. Where there is love, there will always be hurt.

134. Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now. ~Nina Guilbeau

135. “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” ~ Emily Dickinson

136. “The more one judges, the less one loves.” ~ Honore de Balzac

137. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” Socrates

138. “Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.” ~ C. S. Lewis

139. “She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.” ~ Junot Diaz

140. “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

141. “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” Jonathan Harnisch

Love, loss, and redemption Quotes & Statuses with Images

142. “I read ‘The Great Gatsby’ in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.” ~ Tom Perrotta

143. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ~ J. K. Rowling

144. With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.” ~ William Butler Yeats , Lost love quotes for her

145. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” Daphne Rose Kingma

146. “Michael left because of the Bulls’ management, not because he’d lost his love of playing the game.” ~ Tiger Woods

147. “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

148. “There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in a way, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.” ~ Ricardo Montalban

149. “Your past does not equal your future.” Anthony Robbins

150. “When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.” Helen Rowland

151. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss

152. “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” Flavia Weedn

153. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Margaret Mitchell

154. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Jennette Lee

155. “Though lovers be lost love shall not.” ~ Dylan Thomas

156. “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” ~ Rosa Parks

157. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” ~ Nicholas Sparks

158. “It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

159. “Little drops of rain whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.” ~ Robert Plant

160. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II

161. “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.” William Shakespeare

162. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” William Wordsworth

Losing your Love Quotes and Statuses

163. “You must be strong enough to know that love will come to you when you are ready. You must be strong enough to know when to say goodbye, and know that letting go is not weak.” Marisa Donnelly

164. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” Buddha

165. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ~ Oscar Wilde

166. “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

167. “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” ~ D. H. Lawrence

168. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde

169. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

170. “There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way, I feel that I live for both of us… and I will do my best.” ~ Petra Nemcova

171. “If you are seeking solace, read these lost love quotes. You would be surprised by how soothing you will find them. Share your grief with your best friend or family member. Listen to your friends for some well-meaning advice. Washington Irving

172. “You still mean everything to me, but you’re just not worth the fight anymore. Sometimes things need to be let go of. If it’s meant to be, you’ll find each other again. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” Jean Anouilh

173. “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.” Barbra Streisand

174. “One disco, one softball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.” ~ Jasmine Guy

175. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin

176. “Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.” Bryant McGill

177. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier , Sad lost love quotes