“There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark.”— Markus Peterson Related Quotes “She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.”— William Dean Howells “Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, whether through parting or the passage of time, reminding us that we are emotional beings”— Graeme Simsion “Love left to languish will bear poisonous fruit.”— Sarah Winter