Sometimes, it’s best to just let things go.
The relationship may have been going well for some time, but all of a sudden, things start falling apart. Maybe one of you is having an affair and the other partner finds out. Maybe you’re fighting over money and custody of your children. Maybe one of you starts drinking too much and gets violent with the other person. Whatever the reason, no matter how long the relationship has lasted, it’s never easy to say goodbye.
But sometimes it’s easier than you think. No matter how hard it may seem at first, ending a relationship is something that most people can do gracefully and with dignity if they put their minds to it.
Take a look with these love fades quote that will surely hit you and makes you even sadder.
- “It is better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all.” — Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
- “The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.” — Uniek Swain
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds. It dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” — Anonymous
- “It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.” ― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It
- “We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.” — Anonymous
- “‘Why are you sad?’ ‘Because you speak to me with words, and I look at you with feelings.’” — Pierrot le Fou (movie)
- “He loved her; in some ways, he was devoted to her. But he couldn’t reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they’d drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
- “It’s funny how we feel so much, but we cannot say a word. We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard.” — Sarah McLachlan
- “That’s how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.” ― Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
- “There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.” — Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
- “Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
- “None of us knew how terribly these two fine people suffered in secret. I do not think that they ever stopped loving each other, but deep down in their nature, they did not belong to one another.” ― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
- “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’” — John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller
- “‘How do you know when it’s over?’ ‘Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.’” ― Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits
- “Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love — it can just happen somehow — and like magic, she thinks that she’s had enough and that the way the two of you have been for a really long time is no longer worth the effort.” ― Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling
- “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” — Anonymous
- “What hurts more than losing you is knowing that you’re not fighting to keep me.” — Anonymous
- “You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” — Johnny Depp
- “I’m always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way, I started to think it wasn’t Helen anymore. She hasn’t changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can’t understand why I don’t want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don’t lose love like keys?” ― Cath Crowley, The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
- “She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved — a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn’t think of it. It wasn’t in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.” ― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
- “If we must part forever, give me but one kind word to think upon and please myself with while my heart’s breaking.” — Thomas Otway, The Orphan
- “When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.” ― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
- “Walking alone is not difficult, but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone, then coming back alone is what is difficult.” ― Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
- “Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon ‘growing apart.’” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- “To meet, to know, to love, and then to part is the sad tale of many a heart.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
