Pain of Love Quotes

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Despair is part of love.

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

There's a sadness about love, a melancholy and a sadness about beauty. It's just part of the human experience of living on this planet.

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.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

Every love story is a potential grief story.

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.