Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington