romantic suffering Quotes

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

What a plague love is!

... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

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

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.