Love's End Quotes

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

A love that dies has never lived.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.