100+ Lost Love Quotes for Moving On in Life

Moving on in life can be hard sometimes. But holding on to memories of the past can damage your future. Letting go of things and people who were once a great deal to us is hard. But to heal, we must learn to let go of toxic relationships.

Relationships, life circumstances, or anything that no longer serves you well should be left in the past. Heal from heartbreaks and losses and move on. Staying with someone or in something that has no future will only be an injustice for you and your well-being. Bad relationships can have a great impact on your mental health. Living in the past can cause problems like depression and anxiety. You will only find true contentment if you live in the present. The first step can be reading lost love quotes to help find a new outlook on your life.

So, with these lost love quotes, maybe you can find some degree of solace.

100+ Lost Love Quotes To Help You Move On

Dig into these quotes on lost love relationships from the best writers, entrepreneurs, and more:

1. Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

2. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. - Robert Morely

3. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear prey. - Lord Byron

4. Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always. - Maryam Hasnaa

5. Sometimes it takes a relationship to end to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. - Mandy Hale

6. When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. - Albert Einstein

7. Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always. - Maryam Hasnaa

8. Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

9. If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest. - Deb Caletti

10. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

11. How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you. - Rupi Kaur

12. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

13. We loved with a love that was more than love. - Edgar Allen Poe

14. Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye. - Beyonce Knowles

15. If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. - Dr Maya Angelou

16. I fell in love with you because there was mischief in your eyes. - Michka Assayas

17. Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing. - Torquato Tasso

18. If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. - Charles Bukowski

19. Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever – only, nothing is eternal. - Audre Lorde

20. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. - Shannon L. Alder

21. Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. - Loretta Young

22. Seek to be whole, not perfect. - Oprah

23. Give in to love, or live in fear. - Rent

24. I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go. - Jeffrey McDaniel

25. Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves. -Romans

26. The right mental attitude will guide you towards feeling a sense of love that you deserve to experience. - Anonymous

27. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything. - Katharine Hepburn,

28. If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me. - Rumi

29. Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and embrace our growth. - Tony Schwartz

30. Some love stories aren’t epic novels. Some are stories, but that doesn’t make them any less filled with love. - Carrie Bradshaw

31. Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. - Shannon L. Alder

32. Don’t fall in love; rise with it. - Amit Abraham

33. When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself. - Paulo Coelho.

34. We can do no great things; only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

35. The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. - Steve Maraboli.

36. To fall in love is very easy, staying in love is a challenge, letting go is the hardest part, and moving on is a damn suicide. - Nishan Panwar

37. The world has slowed so you can rediscover yourself. - Unknown.

38. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. - Justin Timberlake

39. Change has to come for life to struggle forward. - Helen Hollick.

40. The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did. - FaraazKazi

41. Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

42. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H.Jackson Brown

43. Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. - Roy T. Bennett

44. Moving on is easy but what you leave behind is what makes it hard. - Unknown

45. The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. - Steve Maraboli

46. Love is not something you feel, it is something you do. - David Wilkerson

47. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. - 1 Peter 4:8

48. I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me. - Brigitte Nicole

49. Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. - Ginni Rometty.

50. I wish I could make everyone understand how important this statement is: go where you are wanted. - S. McNutt

51. We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love. - Shemar Moore

52. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life; it goes on. - Robert Frost

53. The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

54. Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout out loud ‘I am lucky to be what I am.’ - Dr Seuss

55. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

56. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. - Guy Finley

57. The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. - Swati Sharma

58. Holding on is believing that there’s the past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. - Unknown

59. You are not your failed relationship mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are. - Lisa Lieberman-Wang

60. 3 things to keep private: your love life. Your income. Your next move. - Unknown

61. When the world is at your back, and your heart is at your feet…the best way to go on is to just “be”. – Jennifer Varnadore

62. You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are. - Lisa Lieberman-Wang

63. Smile and keep moving. Everything will be fine. - Unknown

64. I’m doing it for me. - Unknown

65. Life tried to crush her but only succeeded in creating a diamond. - John Mark Green

66. Unconditional self-love is all that really matters in life. It’s where real life begins. - Anonymous

67. You can’t start a new chapter if you keep re-reading the last one. - Unknown

68. Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life. - Angela C. Santomero

69. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Unknown

70. It’s never too late to be who you might have been. – George Eliot

71. You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.

72. Another sunrise, another new beginning. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

73. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

74. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

75. Flowers need time to bloom. So do you. - Unknown

76. There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C.S. Lewis

77. I will never apologize for being me, but I will apologize for the times that I am not. - Michael Carini

78. Let it hurt, let it bleed, let it heal, and let it go. - Unknown

79. Self-love, self-respect, self-worth… there is a reason they all start with ‘self’. You can’t find them in anyone else. - Dr Anne Brown

80. I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. - Fridtjof Nansen

81. It is what it is. Accept it and move on. - Unknown

82. You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on. - Sue Fitzmaurice

83. I don’t fit into any stereotypes and I like myself that way. - C. Joybell

84. You gotta stop watering dead plants. - Unknown

85. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. - Raymond Lindquist

86. No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me. - Michelle D’Avella

87. Doubt me, hate me, you’re the inspiration I need.- Unknown

88. It hurts to let go of him, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on. - Unknown

89. I’ve been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long / I’m moving on. - Rascal Flatts

90. This is my life… my story… my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make. - Steve Maraboli

91. If I cut you off, chances are you gave me the scissors. - Unknown

92. Give a cheer to your future because you are done with the past. - Unknown

93. Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served. - Tene Edwards

94. One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul. - Brigitte Nicole

95. When people act like they don’t care, believe them. - Unknown

96. Sometimes letting go of fake people will open new doors for you. - Unknown

97. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. - Steve Maraboli

98. Their opinions are not your oxygen. - Curtis Tyrone Jones

99. All relationships are a reflection of your relationship with yourself. - Deepak Chopra

100. Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. - Dr Seuss

Did any of these quotes about love and loss provide any solace? If not, take a moment to breathe deeply and embark on a new journey of self-acceptance, prioritizing yourself above others.

Remember, by harnessing the power of these quotes and mastering the art of letting go of people who have hurt you, you will feel a deep sense of calmness inside you.

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