Sometimes looking for love is a way to find ourselves. These quotes about lost love returning reminds us that second chances can happen in life.
“A broken heart can be as lethal as a bullet to the brain.”
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next.”
“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.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“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.”
“He clutched the watch hard in his fist, determined to destroy it, to prove that it couldn’t be real. That she hadn’t come here because of him, for him.”
“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”
“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.”
“I just like to sing for people who have lost love.”
“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.”
“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper.”
“I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole.”
“I would have followed you to hell and back… if only you’d lead me back.”
“If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.”
“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”
“I’ve lost love. I’ve tried to reclaim a lost love and didn’t know how to do it.”
“Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship.”
“Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.”
“Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.”
“Sometimes your very existence seems nothing, sometimes its your shadow I yearn for or a glimpse of it.”
“Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.”
“The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.”
“The pain started years ago, but I’d lived with it for so long at that point that I’d accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return.”
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
“What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life’s blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.”
“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.”
“When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.”
“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“You taught me how to live with you, now tell me how to live without you.”
“Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it… my world had been so dark, void of sound and then I heard you sing again—and it exploded.”
We do not always win at life. Losing can prove to be equally rewarding to our life.
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