Paulo Coelho Quotes

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest.

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

Smiles come best from those who weep.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked with loss. Loving words got turned to fierce, sharp, whip-cracks of anger that lefft permanent marks. At the least, it disappointed you. At most, it damaged you.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.