Better To Have Loved And Lost Than Never To Have Loved At All
Meaning
It has its literal meaning and states the important of love.
Origin
In 1850 Alfred Lord Tennyson used it in a poem In Memoriam:27
I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.