Do you agree with Tennyson's "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"? Why (not)?

I do agree with that, because the feeling of loving someone is great, or so I've heard. It can't be replaced. If you've never really loved, you won't know what it's like to have someone who's perfect for you- to have someone who loves you, too. Loving and losing is a sad thing, but that means that it might be time to love again.

Yes, it is better ti have loved at least once. That emotion is so powerful and can be a positive or negative force in someone's life. To be able to understand those feelings in a fellow human being, to be able to understand what provides the inspiration for so many novels, poems and songs etc. is a priceless experience even if it is a painful one.

Yes, I agree. One of the reasons is concerned with the experience of love and lost due to any fate, ignorance or misunderstanding since it was a puppy love in my early twenties. I was embittered and then learned to recover from such kind of love, I didn't know nor care anymore if she loved me or not since we later met each other twice some 20 and 30 years ago with mere few words out of politeness like we were two strangers out of each other's world; we knew, I think, fully well we needed to tread along our individual path that shall never meet again. Goodbye and good luck.

Yes I agree - because even if your life ends up without love, at least you have it to look back on. Look at Miss Havisham in Great Expections or Emily in A Rose for Emily. Im not saying you should keep a corpse in your bedroom, but love is sweet to remember. Pax - C.

Absolutely.

I can't imagine my life without the love I've felt. I would be left with an empty existence. The losses I've had were only a temporary emptiness.

Yes. Although lost love hurts greatly, it is best to experience love and lose it than never to have the experience.

I agree. At least if you've loved, you have experienced love. Even if it is now gone, you once had it. But to have never loved? It's like you don't know what you are missing.

yes i agree

its better to have something to look back in life and remember it fondly than to have nothing at all.

even if u lose ur love remember than u will have a motive to gain it back and if u fail, the satisfaction of attempt.

TW K

I disagree. The pain of a loss is sharper than the pain of regret.