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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Sep 29, 2025
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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 witherings, of tarnishings.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.
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.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
The heart was made to be broken.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.