Alfred, Lord Tennyson's quote meaning?

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While we're on it, is Alfred the last name or was he really a Lord or that's his last name or what? (If I want to write it like Browning, Robert, how should I do it with his name?)

Anyway, this person once wrote In Memoriam and there's the lines: "It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" or something like that. I think I agree, but I don't really know why, so what are your opinions on why it's true?

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When you love and you lose, it feels bad, but atleast you feel.

When you never love at all you don't feel, you don't experience.

What if you could make a choice and never feel any pain again -- but you would also never feel pleasure again. Would you take that offer?

Tennyson was saying that no matter how bad his heart would be broken he'd always take a chance on love because he'd rather experience love for a second, and then deal with the pain that comes when you lose it, than go through life knowing neither the pleasure of love nor the sorrow of losing it.