Love Hurts Quotes and Sayings
Our collection of love hurts quotes, and sayings provides some perspective on the challenges of relationships.
The pain that love can deliver can be the most difficult thing to bear. This pain has inspired some of the greatest literature and driven the hearts of men and women to share their pain.
They say when a broken heart cries, the heavens cry with it. Nothing can soothe a heart that is hurt by love. When you are hurt, there is unsung contentment in reading to the words of other broken hearts.
Here are some love hurts quotes to reflect on.
Quotes About Love Hurts
1.) So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
2.) Why is it that we don’t always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends?
Unknown
3.) Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you
Cecily von Ziegesar
4.) Memories are coming back. Pain! I tried so hard to erase it. The time I am spending without you, from you, makes me remember you even more.
Unknown
5.) With all the smiles you brought me, I never thought that you could cause me so many tears.
Unknown
Best Love Hurts Quotes
6.) Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Clive Staples Lewis
7.) The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Carroll Bryant
8.) You hurt me more than I deserve, how can you be so cruel? I love you more than you deserve, why am I such a fool?
Unknown
9.) A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T.E. Kalem
10.) Broken hearts die slowly.
Langston Hughes
11.) If love is so important to have that one doesn’t want to lose it, why is it when we find true love we often don’t notice it?
Unknown
12.) Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete.
Anmol Rawat
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Good Love Hurts Quotes
13.) The pain of having a broken heart is not so much as to kill you, yet not so little as to let you live.
Unknown
14.) What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain?
Amanda Grace
15.) It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
Unknown
16.) When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
17.) The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it was you who would later siphon the life you had given so as to feed your selfish desires
Sonya Watson
18.) One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on, and we fight to let go.
Unknown
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Short Love Hurt Quotes
19.) God is closest to those with broken hearts.
Jewish Saying
20.) Where there is love, there is pain.
Spanish Proverb
21.) It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Unknown
22.) Our breakup was due to religious differences. He thought he was God. I didn’t. Unknown
23.) Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
Alysha Speer
24.) Fear lies. Save love.
Arif Naseem
25.) Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
Gabriel García Márquez
26.) Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare’s The Master of Love Hurts Quotes
27.) It hurts if someone tells you they don’t want you, but it hurts more if they don’t tell you.
Unknown
Broken Heart Sayings
28.) God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.
Unknown
29.) Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart
My silent heart, lie still and break.
Christina Rossetti
30.) The courses of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
31.) The sky cries for those filled with sadness
Sonya Watson
32.) I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
Ann Brashares
33.) I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurt, and fail.
Erma Bombeck
34.) The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
William Somerset Maugham
Hurt Love Sayings
35.) I’ve been hurt but I’ll continue to love, for that gives me the courage to go on with my life.
Unknown
36.) If you have it (love), you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.
Sir James M. Barrie
37.) Of all pains, the greatest pain,
Is to love, and to love in vain.
George Granville
38.) Love is blind, and love can be foolish—our hearts don’t always love the right people at the right time. Sometimes, we hurt the ones who love us the most, and sometimes, we love the ones who don’t deserve our love at all.
Unknown
39.) When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut; it will heal, but there will always be a scar.
Unknown
40.) Have you ever been hurt, and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?
Rosa Parks
41.) Without love, our life is … a ship without a rudder … like a body without a soul.
Sholem Aleichem
42.) If you love something, let it go.
Karen Shreck
Brokenhearted
43.) To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside of your control.
Alexandra Adornetto
44.) I self-destruct every relationship so that I don’t get hurt, but in truth, I just hurt myself worse in the long run.
Unknown
45.) Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Lamartine
46.) It’s not love’s going hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
47.) Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat.
Sonya Watson
48.) At what point of time do you realize something you have been working for so long and so hard is no longer worth fighting for? After the fight I realized it.
Unknown
Tip: Love Hurts quotes might help someone who is going through a difficult time in a relationship. Knowing what to say and when to say it is an art. At first, it might help just to listen.
Love Quotes For Her
49.) What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Richard Wilbur
50.) Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.
Anmol Rawat
51.) I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Rupert Brooke
52.) The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.
Sonya Watson
53.) I miss you in waves, and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life, and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.
Denice Envall
54.) I loved you then I love you now, I love you still, always have always will.
Unknown
55.) When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead, keep your head up high and gaze into heaven, for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.
Unknown
Waiting is the Hardest Part
56.) The man is quickened so with grief,
He wanders god-like or like a thief
Inside and out, below, above,
With relief seeking lost love.
Robert Graves
57.) Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.
Luanne Rice
58.) You did love me, I whispered. Just not the same way I loved you.
Jess Rothenberg – (some of these Love Hurts quotes get right to the core of the sadness)
59.) I fight for what I want, and that’s you. But sometimes I ask myself if you’re worth it, and my heart says yes, you are. But I don’t want to fight a war if I’m going to lose.
Unknown
60.) I hate the day because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
Edmund Spenser
61.) Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.
Aman Jassal
62.) One day, you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you…then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go
Drake
Inspiring Love Hurts Quotes
63.) Maybe it’s a good idea to write something about you in my book… At least then, there will be a place where we will meet every day… and be together forever!
Anamika Mishra
64.) Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts.
Toba Beta
65.) Love stinks, yeah, yeah.
J. Geils Band
66.) Don’t fall in love. Falling off a bridge hurts less.
Unknown
67.) The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you… And knowing you have absolutely no chance with them.
Unknown
68.) With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence – o’er and o’er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless wore my heart away!
Thomas Moore
69.) He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed and rebuilt. And he loved it.
Jess Michaels
70.) Our love was like a game to you… when you got bored, you quit.
Unknown
71.) Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
72.) Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.
Unknown
73.) Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
Unknown
Positive Love Hurts Quotes
74.) Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.
Faraaz Kazi
75.) I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.
Nicholas Sparks
76.) Among my stillness was a pounding heart.
Shannon A. Thompson
77.) Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
78.) Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.
Stephen R. Covey
79.) Sometimes, even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt.
Jennifer Brown
80.) You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.
Leila Sales
81.) Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Irish Headstone
Sad Love Hurts Quotes
82.) When they grow out of love and walk away, they leave you in a mess. Like pulling out threads from the middle of the fabric.
Unknown
83.) The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me.
Sierra Simone
84.) It is painful to realize that after keeping someone as your priority for so long, you were just on the bottom list of her options.
Unknown
85.) There is no greater pain in realizing that you are hurting someone you love under unavoidable circumstances.
Unknown
86.) We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.
Unknown
87.) I believed that you love me, but you broke my heart, And now my soul is bleeding with tears of anguish.
Unknown
Deep Love Hurts Quotes
88.) The least and weakest man can do some hurt.
Cambodian Proverb
89.) Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone’s feeling more than you intended it to.
Justin Beiber
90.) To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindest thing.
Unknown
91.) I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
John Green
91.) Don’t hurt my feelings anymore. I left you my roses, and you gave me your thorns.
Godwin Delali Adadzie
92.) There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.
Laurell K. Hamilton
93.) That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk
94.) Everybody can see a laughing face, but nobody can see a broken heart.
Unknown
Love Hurts Sayings
95.) Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.
Coco J. Ginger
96.) But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more until my heart is strangled and broken.
G. Howard
97.) The end of love looks like the beginning of war.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
98.) Either give me your hand or end it now and put us both out of our misery.
Judith McNaught
99.) When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
Shannon L. Alder
100.) It hurts the most when the person who made you feel so special yesterday makes you feel so unwanted today.
Unknown
101.) The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
Unknown
Regret
102.) I loved her, and I still do. But I let her go, and that’s the biggest regret of my life.
Jane Austen
103.) I was haunted by a painful desire for her, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.
Anoir Ou-Chad
104.) You put me through so much hell, and I was blind enough to call it love.
Unknown
105.) We fell into a well-called love, and only you were able to get out.
Unknown
The moment you start loving someone, you also put your heart at risk of getting hurt. There are no guarantees in love, and you can never be sure where it will lead.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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