Quotes about love-lost

Mary E. Pearson - The Beauty of Darkness

Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.We had found it.But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.

Ellen Hopkins - Burned

I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

Raquel Cepeda - Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Yesenia Barkley -

I love a man who tickles me awake with reality, and kisses me goodnight with fictionBraids my hair with simplicity to compliment my contradiction And calms the waging wars inside with a simple boyish lookFor he is as much a mystery as he is an open book When I am at my worst, I am beautiful by his sideHe draws me in yet keeps me free, the moon to my tideHe relishes my quirks and antics just as much I love to keep him franticAnd if I ever fall, he doesn’t catch me right awayBecause he knows I’ll

Nikki Rowe -

i have loved and i have lost and im starting to believe; its ok. 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, hasnt even begun yet.

Nikki Rowe -

Someone asked me the other day if I missed my ex? I didn't understand the question, because what's there to miss.. He lost someone who could have loved him forever, but I lost someone who never did... So the only thing I miss, was the part of me I changed ; in order, for him to love more. How was I so blinded back then... I don't miss him, I missed me.

Andrea Hurst - Always with You

To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.

Andrea Hurst - Always with You

Like a white knight in a station wagon, he drove out of her life.

R. W. Patterson - Dark Night of the Soul: In the darkest of moments...a sacrifice to end a life...a rescue to save a soul.

She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the past…edit out the monsters hell-bent on taking the lives of everyone she loved.

Angela Richardson - Pieces of Truth

You are not going to be the girl I’m going to marry are you? You are going to be the girl that got away.

Rick Remender - Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

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.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...

Judith Krantz - Scruples

Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you and keep you from suffering? Valentine turned her eyes away from him, unable to face the empty answer in his face but not wanting to stop saying what she had thought for so long. "I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most-emptiness. A person full of life is never mysterious, on the contrary.

Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie

Ovid - The Erotic Poems

I got nervous at bulls and eagles,Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f

R. W. Patterson -

Laney, why do I believe you transcend the ordinary? Why do I look at you, and expect to see a façade fall away, revealing something much more than even the extraordinary? Tell me."Elaine flushed, her knees wobbling. “I…don’t…know. But thank you—for the kind words. I’m flattered.” She closed her eyes wanting to hide. He was too close…too beautiful…too fervid.And she was too vulnerable, too exposed.“Look at me.”She hesitantly met his unwavering gaze.“No more hiding in your shadows,” he whispered,

C. Elizabeth -

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you.

Jodi Lynn Anderson - Tiger Lily

A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime...I tried to talk sense into my hard little heart. But it had landed on Peter, a creature two hundred times my size and barely aware of me, and there was no p

Clint Catalyst - Cottonmouth Kisses

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

Yesenia Barkley -

I see your face, your smile and poetry comes flooding out of a heart that can't love you anymore...

Zack Love - Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

...And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, "It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia" City Solipsism: A Short Story

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...

LeAnne Mechelle - Write like no one is reading 2

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

greg c warner -

Closed eyescan't sacrifice a third timei may never knowA dreamer's dreammy stars are onlymade of goldCame into this life holding onWas it a dream Or life lived beforeAlien genetics Formed on the 7thToo late So i was turned awayToo lateBut i seen those gatesIt’s just latelyi’ve forgot the wayWhat am i saying?somewhere out there is a starCovered in goldlaugh, its okayit's just best i wait this time can't sacrifice a third timehow will i knowfeverish devils place their bets the abyss or the flameBu

Cedric Nye - Jango's Anthem

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.

R. W. Patterson -

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.

Jenim Dibie -

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.

Karen Quan - Write like no one is reading 2

You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Karen Quan - Write like no one is reading 2

You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.

Tanzy Sayadi - Write like no one is reading 2

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...

R. W. Patterson -

What we share between us is powerful. It consumes and burns brightly, love. When we—if we—consummate this relationship, I want us to be thinking clearly. Most importantly, I want you to be strong. Healthy. I want you to be whole. I wish that for you—in every second of your life—whether you choose to stay or go—that you be you again…that your heart…and your body heal. You’ve survived much, Laney. Let us not forget your journey leading to this place in time.

R. W. Patterson -

I need to say something. Take it anyway you like,” Ian stated, his eyes boring into hers with a fervor that left her holding her breath.Elaine started to shake her head. “Look, we just met…you don’t need to say…”His deep, cultured voice interrupted her. “Everything you are, Laney, resides in your eyes. I need to see you—all of you. Don’t take that from me while I’m still here. Please.”Tears welled. “You don’t even know me,” she whispered. “How can you say that?”“Because I think I do know you—I j

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Venice behind him to return to France, a last mosquito proves that Italy and summer are still not too remote. But, as a rule, with this particular period of his life from which he was emerging, when he made an effort, if not to remain in it, at least to obtain a clear view of it while he still could, he discovered that already it was too late; he would have liked to glimpse, as though it were a land

William Ernest Henley - A Selection of Poems

Out of the starless night that covers me, (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!) Black as the cloud of some tremendous spell, The susurration of the sighing sea Sounds like the sobbing whisper of two souls That tremble in a passion of farewell.To the desires that trebled life in me, (O melancholy of the wind that rolls!) The dreams that seemed the future to foretell, The hopes that mounted herward like the sea, To all the sweet things sent on happy souls, I cannot choose but bid a mute farewell

Anna Godbersen - Envy

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.

H.P. Lovecraft -

The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool reposeTo mellowing landscape, and to calming sea.And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light,The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines;Freed form the noonday glare, the favour’d sightIncreasing grace in earth and sky divines.But ere the purest radiance crowns the green,Or fairest lustre fills th’ expectant grove,The twilight thickens, and the fleeting sceneLeaves but a hallow’d memory

M. Ali -

I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

All love is bittersweet. Love is inexplicable; it is part poetry and part masochism. Part of love is the loss of self-control because one must openly surrender their sense of an exclusive self to the manic powers of love. The personal act of surrender to a lover leaves one vulnerable to entanglement in a maze of emotions. When we fall in love, our lover’s happiness and well-being assumes the primary role in our mind, they become copilots of our souls. When we are in love for the first time, we f

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

No one can claim they are mature until they experience the hallucinogenic ramifications of being in love, and undertaken an urgent personal assessment and soul-searching discernment that is mandated after experiencing the bitterness of losing in the love game.

R. W. Patterson - Dark Night of the Soul: In the darkest of moments...a sacrifice to end a life...a rescue to save a soul.

Somehow everything always came down to time, she realized with perfect lucidity. There was either too much or too little. It either passed too quickly or too slowly. It didn’t belong to anyone—it was simply a gift, bestowed by God, and yet eternally taken for granted. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing Time could be tamed—reigned in—and tethered, synchronized with human needs and wants. But that wasn’t the case, was it?

Kamand Kojouri -

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

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