Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

I was adored once too.

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.

I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.