#loss

The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love ↗

— Hilary Stanton Zunin

#love

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#love #love-and-loss #love

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero. Es tan corto el amor y es tan largo el olvido. Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos, mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido. Aunque éste sea el último dolor que ella me causa, y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#hispanic #loss #love #spanish #love

Scarlett: I only know that I love you! Rhett: That's your misfortune. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#loss #love #sadness #love

The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you? ↗

— Jaffe Cohen

#seventies #love

You never quite realize how much you love and need him until the very moment you realize he's slipping away... ↗

— Alice

#love #love

When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of such a love is the pain of its loss. I can only feel such pain today because until yesterday I knew that love. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#love #love

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completely surprised. 'And for him. Because he's lost you now.' This last part undid me. Despite her cruel criticism of me over the years, from where she sat, I was anyone and everyone's prize. ↗

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

#loss #worth #love

I would do almost anything for him to kiss me; his possessive lips and eager tongue invading my mouth, even the thought sent tingles up my numb spine and lifeless body ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#loss #loss-of-love #love