25 Best Quotes About Impossible Love

Love is meant to be free and move mountains. That's probably why impossible love is one of the saddest, most painful and most moving things. Who hasn't felt a twinge of sadness when reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or watching the movie? What does it mean to love someone you can't be with? What have famous writers, artists and philosophers said about impossible and forbidden love? What are the famous sayings about difficult and complicated relationships?

We have made a list of the 25 best sayings and most beautiful quotes about impossible love, but also the saddest and most moving ones!

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

It's love that enslaves us... It is the play within the play, the stage on which the tragic drama of our human lives unfold.

Justin Cronin

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paulo Coelho

Sadness is a wall between two gardens

Khalil Gibran

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Paulo Coelho

It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.

Ella Harper

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.

Susan Polis Schutz

Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the...BURN!

Syed Arshad

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.

Anais Nin

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

If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed

Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Nicholas Sparks

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Henny Youngman

Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.

Lykke Li

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

W.S. Merwin

And in the end, I said you would love me. We're in the end and there's only one of us here.

Dominic Riccitello

I'll love you even when I can't, I'll love you even when I shouldn't.

Colleen Hoover

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Stephen King

A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.

Unknown

The heart was made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.

Faraaz Kazi