Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 7, 2020. It has since been updated.
Everyone remembers the one that got away, the first one who broke our heart, the one that helped us put the broken pieces back together and trust in love again. Some of us have known love as beautiful and precious, while the rest of us have experienced it as heartbreaking. Here are 22 quotes that talk about love, loss, and beyond.
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1. She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love, too, is sometimes broken. ― Robert M Drake
2. And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. ― Christopher Poindexter
3. She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way. ― Nicholas Sparks
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4. “It’s not exactly love at first sight. It is more like soul recognition.” —Lynette Simeone
5. First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. —Maya Angelou
6.Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what’s happening. It’s inevitable. An event you can’t control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. —Jackie Collins
7. Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart. ― Robert M Drake
8. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry. ― Markus Zusak
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9. Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart – when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won’t work out. It’s ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. — Rachael Taylor
10. The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we’re supposed to. —Jodi Picoult
11. One morning, about four o’clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, ‘Why am I out on the highway this time of night?’ I was miserable, and it all came to me: ‘I’m falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. I can’t fall in love with this man, but it’s just like a ring of fire. —June Carter Cash
12. You always gain by giving love. — Reese Witherspoon
13. All that you are is all that I’ll ever need. — Ed Sheeran
14. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ― Dr. Seuss
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15. As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ― John Green
16. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ― Pablo Neruda
17. The minute you love yourself, you will never want to be anyone else. —Rihanna
18. Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. ― Nicholas Sparks
19. Our souls have conversations that words could never describe. —Bridgett Devoue
20. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ― Jodi Picoult
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21. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. ― Jane Austen
22. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ― Anais Nin
