Is it better to have loved & lost, rather than not to have loved at all?

Answer 1

this is one of the few occasions where I don't agree with mr. Shakespeare.

Had you never loved, you wouldn't know what you'd be missing.

Answer 2

Its a debatable question. You see, some would say you don't miss what you've never had but life is all about experiencing and risk taking. I think personally its better to love and loose than not love at all. At least you can say then you've felt something magical. no offence to those who haven't loved yet. everyone has a time at some point and even if you don't, there are still just as pleasurable things in the world - if you know what i mean. lol.

Answer 3

Definately. Every relationship I've had helped make me who I am. I took something away from them that made me a better person and helped me not to make the same mistakes the next time. I also learned along the way want I want and do not want in love. I will always have good memories of the time I spent loving someone even if that love was not meant to last forever. If I were to have met my soul mate before I had a chance to learn the things I've learned and vise versa, we might not have the relationship we have. We are who we are because of the experiences we've had.

Answer 4

When you are single and if you see a couple and they look like they are in love, they tell you that they are in love, you believe them to be in love, and what if you have never been in love how could you know that it is the truth? If it isn't love at least you had the joy of believing in love and sharing a dream with another. So I say yes it is better to have loved and lost.

Answer 5

Yes, love is a worthy purpose, for a worthy person. But just love in general? No. The wrong person is worse than no person.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. --Einstein

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are built for. --John Shedd

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. -- Confucius

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Ghandi

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Thoreau

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Ben Franklin

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." -- Katharine Hepburn

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty! William Shakespeare

Answer 6

Throughout our lives we appear to have much more opportunity to show love, rather than to receive it from others. In my life, I have gained great peace and strength from showing love to those less fortunate. If we love for the sake of, allowing someone to feel loved, then, how can we lose? If we focus on losing love, than we ourselves are not able to express love. Yes, it is better to have loved and lost because realistically, when you show love to anyone there can only be gain.

Answer 7

A few years ago, before I had ever loved, I agreed with this statement after seeing the joys and heartache of others. Having the highs and lows are beter then having nothing at all.

However now years later, after experiancing love and a few major heartaches, I still agree, because atleast you have the good memories and the heart will always heal....

Answer 8

It is better to have loved and lost than not having loved at all; for having loved, even when losing what one was loving, an individual still has won by experiencing love itself. If one never loved at all, one is deprived of the most sublime yet immediate form of bliss available to man and womankind during our ember of time in eternity.

Answer 9

Love is a skill. U have to practice it to learn it. just like driving or using the net.

So the main aim in loving is to improve your skill of loving, if u do not get the person u loved no matter, u r still left with "Love" itself. And that is great because "God is Love" and u can do with a little bit of "God" in your heart (the place where Love lives and grows)

Answer 10

Nope, not at all.
No one likes to lose anything. Just look at how upset some people become after misplacing the remote.

I would rather not experience love and not feel a heartbreak or know "what I'm missing" then to have that feeling and then lose it.

Answer 11

Personally, I think life's more exciting with some emotion. Happy, sad...it all makes life colorful. I'd rather have bitter-sweet memories of love than go through life not knowing that happiness like that can exist.