Sad Romantic Quotes

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland

The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare

When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson

True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous

Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous

You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch

Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy

It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II

Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita

We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong

There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous

The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill

Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit.
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage,
a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie