39 Past Love Quotes

  • To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best. – William Makepeace Thackeray

 

  • Love doesn’t erase the past, but it makes the future different. – Gary Chapman

 

  • The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over. – Nicholas Sparks

  • He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world. – Jennifer Weiner

 

  • One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. – Romain Rolland

 

  • Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. – Victoria Holt

 

  • He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. – Theodor Adorno

 

  • It’s better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week. – Laurence J Peter

 

  • You must live through the time that everything hurts. – Stephen Spender

 

  • Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. – Marilyn Monroe

 

  • If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn’t have found a reason to let you go. – Jourdane Erasquin

 

  • Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitley

 

  • Right now you can cry to your hearts content. But trust me, someday you will wake and forget about him. – Cinta Pertama

 

  • You cannot miss what you have never had. – Christopher Paolini

 

  • We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect. – Alex Rosa

 

  • Love doesn’t keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn’t bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5) – Gary Chapman

 

  • Love is gone and my heart is a bird, that has lost direction mid-flight. – Laura Ramirez

 

  • We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. – Marianne Williamson

 

  • To meet, to know, to love and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a heart. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

  • Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back. – Stephan Labossiere

 

  • A million words would not bring you back, I know because I’ve tried. Neither would a million tears, I know because I’ve cried. – Unknown

 

  • We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love. – Sigmund Freud

 

  • If two past lovers can remain friends, it’s either, they were never really in love, or they still are. – Unknown

 

  • She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can’t wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you. – Jamie Foxx

 

  • Just because you have a past with someone, doesn’t mean you should have a future with them. – Robert Tew

 

  • The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. – Nicholas Sparks

 

  • Unfortunately, we all have that one person we’d take back any second no matter how much they hurt us in the past. – Tinku Razoria

 

  • I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons. – Adrienne Rich

 

  • Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be. – Harriet Evans

 

  • The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is. – Tigress Luv

 

  • He fell on me like a wave. But like a wave he washed away, leaving no sign that he had been there. – Louise Erdich

 

  • I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future. – Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

 

  • Hearts live by being wounded. – Oscar Wilde

 

  • It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think? – Winona Ryder

 

  • As the time has passed, there are two things i’ve learned. Forget that you’re gone and to value on what I have left. – Unknown

 

  • I mean, aren’t we all tormented by past relationships?. – Alex Rosa

 

  • At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life. – Unknown

 

  • A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go. – Dave Matthews Band

 

  • I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future. – Taylor Swift

 

  • Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace. – William Shakespeare