Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

A love that dies has never lived.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

It's hard to fall in love with somebody, and then break up and not have feelings for that same person.

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.

He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start ‘figuring him out,’ please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.