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Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Catullus1 quote
It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love. — Catullus · 54 BCMatthew Arnold1 quote
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. — Matthew Arnold · 1852Noah1 quote
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. — Noah · 2004Oscar Wilde1 quote
There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Otto Harbach1 quote
When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes. — Otto Harbach · 1933Pablo Neruda1 quote
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. — Pablo Neruda · 1924Patti Smith1 quote
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. — Patti Smith · 2010The Beatles1 quote
Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday. — The Beatles · 1965W.B. Yeats1 quote
Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1928W.H. Auden1 quote
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. — W.H. Auden · 1936William Shakespeare1 quote
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 · 1616