George R. R. Martin
Novelist, Screenwriter
"When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."
Lost Love quotes
Lost Love
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Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love."
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"Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve."
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"If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free."
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"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never."
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"Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all."
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"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
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"The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved."
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"I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes."
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"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope"
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"Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there."
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"I just like to sing for people who have lost love."
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"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
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"You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience."
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"I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost ."
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"Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not."
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"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
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"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
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"There's no love lost between us."
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"The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time."
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