Words cannot express the grief one feels when one loses love. Then again, wise words can heal wounds and help us reflect on the tragedy. If you have undergone a personal loss -- the loss of love or of a loved one -- you will find this list of lost love quotes very relevant:

From Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Margaret Mitchell- "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."

Washington Irving-Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Anonymous-Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Helen Keller-The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Melai-Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.   Henry Ward Beecher- What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.     Anonymous- You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.   There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~Henry David Thoreau

Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than treason
To go with the drift of things
To yield with a grace to reason
And bow and accept at the end
Of a love or a season.

~ Robert Frost

Unknown-How can I forget you when you're always on my mind? How can I not want you when you're all I want inside? How can I let you go when I can't see us apart? How can I not love you when you control my heart?      Kezia-Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.     Believe in the power of tears to heal the wounds and wash the pain away. Love will come again. In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. ~Margaret Anderson~     The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But for me the spring is done. Beneath the apple blossoms I go a wintry way, For love that smiled in April Is false to me in May. ~Sara Teasdale   There can be no great love without great pain. ~Anonymous   Noelle P.-The worst thing is holding on to someone who doesn't want to be held on to.     If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it   Being strong sometimes means being able to let go.   A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.   Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened     You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind.     Letting go of someone dear to you is hard, but holding on to someone who doesn't even feel the same is much harder. Giving up doesn't mean you are weak! It only means that you are strong enough to let go!       Watching you walk out of my life hasn't made me bitter or cynical about love, but rather, it has shown me that if I wanted so badly to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.        Amanda-I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had.     And finally the greatest, when Scarlett O' Hara Butler realizes too late that she does love Rhett and not Ashley!!   Scarlett: What are you doing? Rhett Butler: I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true. Scarlett: Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling! Rhett Butler: Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last. Scarlett: This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did. Rhett Butler: I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes? Scarlett: I... I never really loved Ashley. Rhett Butler: You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London. Scarlett: I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty. Rhett Butler: And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't. Scarlett: I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me. Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything. Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything. Rhett Butler: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief. Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going? Rhett Butler: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong. Scarlett: Please, please take me with you! Rhett Butler: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about? Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you. Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune. [Rhett turns to walk down the stairs] Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! [Scarlett watches Rhett walk to the door] Scarlett: Rhett! [runs down the stairs after Rhett] Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett! [catches him as he's walking out the front door] Scarlett: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do? Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. [Rhett walks off into the fog]