Dear Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too.

— Sorin Cerin

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

— Mason Cooley

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that…

— Marcel Proust

I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me,…

— Anonymous

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

— Judy Tatelbaum

“It is a bittersweet joy, but real nonetheless—the way our lost loves are forever in our hearts and minds. They are, in fact, constant…

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the…

— Edgar Allan Poe