~ Love Quotes ~
UNREQUITED LOVE, SEPARATION AND LOSS
'Love's Shadow,' by Anthony Frederick Sandys (detail)
"Lovers may break our hearts, but only love can truly heal it."
-"Les Vierges"

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Ben Franklin

"Not loving is but a long dying."
-Wu Ti

"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."
-Madame De Staël

"Some people will die for love, some will die because they lost it."
-"cRuCiFiCa" 

"In solitude, What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?"
-John Milton ("Paradise Lost")

"Love is great when you find someone to give it to."
-Chris Myrick

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

"When a young man complains that a young woman has no heart, it is a pretty sure sign that she has his."
-Source Unknown

"Alas!  The love of women!  It is known to be a lovely and fearful thing."
-George Gordon, Lord Byron

"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."
-Harold Loukes

"We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love." 
-Freud 

"Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has it's rainbow."
-James Matthew Barrie

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
-"Charlie Brown"

"Love is like pizza, when it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, It's still pretty good."
-Source Unknown 

"Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are."
-John Dryden

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin 

"To love and win is the best thing.  To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau

"To continue loving someone when there is no promise of that love thriving- that is romance." 
-Anonymous

"Faults are thick when love is thin."
-Jo Petty

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

"Distance is a dagger in the heart of two lovers." 
-Beth

"The wretched part of Love is that we can't love frivolously if we mean it."
-Anonymous 

“Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
-James Matthew Barrie

"Perhaps a great love is never returned..." 
-Dag Hammarskjold 

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