I have never been in love and I often wonder just once how it feels to have an emotional connection with someone. To look into someones eyes and know how love feels. Other than the love of God and my parents. Just to know that someone who didn't have to love me truly did. So yes it better to know your are loved than to not know what that feels like even once.

 The man who wrote the famous quote said it had a 10 year depression after lossing his love, go figure. Those who say such things to make them selfs feel better and more justic in there pain much as proverbs do. But when truth be told i love destories you and its makes heron seam like an easy drug to give up. Those who say you remember the good times have never been in loved and never lost. Every time you think of a good time the bad are there to haunt you and if you don't feel that horrible feeling each time your not in love with them. + your assuming that there was good times and they out way the bad times. Love is a horrible feeling which leaves its mark for ever and it just gets muffelled out. Avoid it at all costs, you have been warned!

 In my opinion, that's a false statement. I would rather live without something, than live knowing that I had that something but lost it...

It would be easier to bear throughout my life. If you don't experience love at all, you won't have that pain that comes with heartbreak.

 To pose a counter quote ... "ignorance is bliss".

Having known and lost, I'd rather have bliss, thank you very much.

Ask Adam and Eve if knowing is better.

 All Depends on the way it all happens let me give you an example

say someone from another country USA you've known for years comes to visit you in the uk, they are here for 6 months you fall madly in love with each other and then on the day he/she has to go home you know your going to have to spend hours feeling like dying walking back to the airport to watch the person you loved and cherished walk away and disappear probably never to see again ....

But take another situation say you meet someone in the same country get married fall deep in love and break up you know that person is still going to be around and most the time 90% you've split because you've fell out of love or decided to be with someone else, so no doubt love gets transferred.

In the 2nd instance i am all for it, but in the first instance i would rather die every time than have that happen to me again.

 For every relationship u have, it makes u grow and learn. To have loved someone, it makes you the luckiest person ever. Because once you loved, many great things will follow. It's just the way you look at it to depend whether if it's good or bad. The person you loved will feel the love from you and might love you back. That's when you're very blessed! Even if you've lost, you wouldn't have any regrets because you know deep inside, you've tried your very best to make this relationship work. To never even loved at all, i find that person is a total "loser". He/She has missed something that is so unique on Earth. Something that money can never buy. Have fun loving =)

 I'm so happy for my experiences...I wouldn't be who I am today without loving and losing!

 Whoever against this quote...you all should watch "the leap years".. You will understand this love quotes

 I have loved...and deeply. I have met a soulmate on more than one occasion and had to "set it free" as it's also sagely advised to do.

So, why am I against the notion that it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all: We feel nothing deeper, more personally or with such acuity, than love.

Suppose you had a lottery ticket in your pocket but hadn't yet checked to see if it had won, how would you feel? Then suppose that ticket was a huge winner and you knew it and you somehow lost it (that's a pretty fair hypothesis, since you have less control over losing love than you do a lottery ticket), how would you feel? Now, compare the two.

I know for some this will ring hollow, but substitute financial windfall for your personal favorite.

Is it better to have known that you won it all (dollars, rupies, yen, or whatever it is you most cherish), and lost it?

I don't think so.

 How would you know if to have love and lost it, is better that never had it at all, if you never had love to start with.

 Well is better to have never loved at all then have loved and lost.

 Different circumstances, different view.

To have loved is great, but then to have never been loved back by the person you thought loved you just as much, is devastating! Then having to live with that person in your life is sooo hard. Much more than that it CAN ruin lives. To loose that love after many years is unbearable and i would never wish the pain and torment on anyone. I personally would never have loved than go through the agony.