A Quote by Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

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Romantic Better Lost Loved Loved And Lost Never Than

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Samuel Butler
British - Poet
December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost...so it was never lost.

Yasmin Mogahed

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Charles Spurgeon

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

LeBron James

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

Emily Giffin

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

Ernie J Zelinski

The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is pleasure the same as happiness? Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved, or not to be able to love?

Anthony Standen

Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both.

Jon Richardson

Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

Igor Sikorsky

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.