72 Quotes About Love-lost

I didn’t appreciate at that age the different way women loved, using their bodies and their heart and their spirit and their soul. I didn’t appreciate that they felt part of someone when they were in love with them. I promised myself I would never tell a woman I loved them unless I simply couldn’t bear not to. I told myself that relationships were not a game, no matter much everyone wants you to join in.

The good parts of our relationship felt like a rat walking around and gnawing at the inside of my stomach.

I still belonged to you long after you belonged to someone else.

...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me...

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

Somehow everything always came down to time, she realized with perfect lucidity. There was either too much or too little. It either passed too quickly or too slowly. It didn’t belong to anyone—it was simply a gift, bestowed by God, and yet eternally taken for granted. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing Time could be tamed—reigned in—and tethered, synchronized with human needs and wants. But that wasn’t the case, was it?

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

You are not going to be the girl I’m going to marry are you? You are going to be the girl that got away.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.