The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
Kaleel Jamison
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
St. Augustine
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
La Bruyére
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Crowley
One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons.
Loving again is learning them.
Sandra McKendry
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin