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12 quotes

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Topic·Lost love✕clear

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.

Carmina · 54 BC

★ 1.3

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore because I know that what we had was real.

The Notebook · 2004

★ 2.0

Song · Great American songbook

When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes · 1933

★ 3.5

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

1936

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

We headed home holding hands. For a moment I dropped back to watch him walk. His sailor's gait always touched me. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart.

2010

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona · 1616

★ 3.7

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost?

1928

★ 3.7

Novel · Magazine

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 3.8

Love poem · Poem

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

1924

★ 3.9

Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd? Who renders vain their deep desire? A God, a God their severance rul'd! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

1852

★ 5.2

Yesterday, All my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Yesterday · 1965

★ 5.5

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

1850

★ 7.0