Paulo Coelho Quotes

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.