Love And Loss @ MindSay 
Words cannot express the grief one feels when one loses love. Then again, wise words can heal wounds and help us reflect on the tragedy. If you have undergone a personal loss -- the loss of love or of a loved one -- you will find this list of lost love quotes very relevant:
From Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem In Memoriam:27, 1850:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Margaret Mitchell- "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."
Washington Irving-Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Anonymous-Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Helen Keller-The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Melai-Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them. Henry Ward Beecher- Anonymous- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
~Henry David Thoreau
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than treason
To go with the drift of things
To yield with a grace to reason
And bow and accept at the end
Of a love or a season.
~ Robert Frost
Unknown-How can I forget you when you're always on my mind? How can I not want you when you're all I want inside? How can I let you go when I can't see us apart? How can I not love you when you control my heart? Believe in the power of tears to heal the wounds and wash the pain away. Love will come again. In real love you want the other person's good. The wind is tossing the lilacs, Beneath the apple blossoms There can be no great love without great pain. Noelle P.-The worst thing is holding on to someone who doesn't want to be held on to. If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it Being strong sometimes means being able to let go. A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind. Letting go of someone dear to you is hard, Watching you walk out of my life hasn't made me Amanda-I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had. And finally the greatest, when Scarlett O' Hara Butler realizes too late that she does love Rhett and not Ashley!! Scarlett: What are you doing?
Kezia-Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.
In romantic love
you want the other person.
~Margaret Anderson~
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.
I go a wintry way, For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May.
~Sara Teasdale
~Anonymous
but holding on to someone
who doesn't even feel
the same is much harder.
Giving up doesn't mean you are weak!
It only means that
you are strong enough to let go!
bitter or cynical about love, but rather,
it has shown me that if I wanted so badly to be with the wrong person,
how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.
Rhett Butler: I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true.
Scarlett: Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!
Rhett Butler: Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last.
Scarlett: This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did.
Rhett Butler: I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?
Scarlett: I... I never really loved Ashley.
Rhett Butler: You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London.
Scarlett: I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty.
Rhett Butler: And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.
Scarlett: I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me.
Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett Butler: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
Rhett Butler: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett Butler: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune.
[Rhett turns to walk down the stairs]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett!
[Scarlett watches Rhett walk to the door]
Scarlett: Rhett!
[runs down the stairs after Rhett]
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett!
[catches him as he's walking out the front door]
Scarlett: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
[Rhett walks off into the fog]
It's been a week and a day since I kissed my Chi. Best damn kisses I've ever had. One of the worst choices I've ever made. Not really. Just the price is too high. This post will be short. I might carry it along for awhile before I stop posting about it.
It was just a kiss.
It was so much more.
So, until I hear otherwise form Chi, I'll do the cop-out cards and letters routine.
I'll keep ya posted.
I kissed a girl the other day. The feel of her tounge against mine was undiscribable. I said girl. She is in her 30's. I in my 40's. Yes I'm an old fart. She made me feel things that I haven't felt in 10 years. That was Thursday. Today she cant seem to stay in the same room with me.
You see, I'm married. 22 years. This woman wasn't my wife.
I just need to put some words down as I dont think I'll ever get to tell her. See, we've been friends for a long time. She's been divoriced twice. She has three kids, but only one lives with her. Her daughter has started calling me "uncle".
I flew down to see my folks, had a free ticket cause I got bumped on a flight. My wife stayed home. She was the one who pushed me to come see my folks. Her Mom died not too long ago and she wanted me to spend time with my Dad as he is up there in age.
We, Chi (after Chiana of Farscape fame) kinda grew up together. I was older but we were pals. I joind the navy and got married. Later, so did she. My marriage has been good, mostly. My wife doesn't want me to be me. She doesn't like my family, or comics, or movies, or computer, or anything I like. Everything seems to be a test. I always seem to fail.
While I was over sea's Chi and I would talk now and again. We haven't seen each other for a long time. Her first husband turned out to be a bum. Her second was worse. They came up to see use once. She was expecting her daughter. When my uncle died, I flew down to his funeral and drove my family home. I saw Chi again. We talked. We were both glad to see eachother. I took her and her daughter to the movies. We held hands. My suggestion. I was just so glad to see her.
This Thursday, she talked to me about her life. She said that I was her "ideal" in a husband. She'd been looking for another me for years and couldn't find me. I dont really know why she would want the hassle of me. I told her that I was falling in love with her. We talked the whole day and into the night. Then I had to lean in and kiss her. Taste her breath. Touch her tounge with mine. I asked her to tell me to stop if I overstep myself. She said she would. We kissed a few more times. She made me feel like me. She said that I made her feel special.
Friday, she wasn't feeling well and wanted to sleep. Saturday, she felt better but seemed uncomfortable around me. I'll see her one more time before I go back to my life.
I feel that I've botched a good thing by stealing a kiss. I'm lost and dont know what to do. How do I turn back time and make things like they were before I leaned in and tasted her lips. I'll have to ride out tomorrow and see where we stand. Where I stand. Have I truely lost her? Was she really just that ill?
I know I'm an ass. I know that I shouldn't have kissed her in the first place. What's done is done. I want to ask her "Where do we go from here?"
Things being as they are, we could never marry. Even if I got divoriced. We're more than friends and never lovers. I doesn't change how I feel. I just dont know how she feels Maybe tomorrow.
I wont be able to get back to this until after I'm home. Back in my life. She, still in hers.
I'm in love with someone I never thought I would be. And, someone I shouldn't be.
I'm lost. And I did it too myself.