61 Heart-Wrenching Love Quotes

Love has an unparalleled ability to touch the deepest corners of our hearts, bringing both immense joy and profound sorrow. For those times when you're searching for words that capture the complexity and intensity of love, we've curated a selection of the most heart-wrenching love quotes. These quotes beautifully express the pain, yearning, and bittersweet moments that often accompany loving someone deeply. Prepare to be moved as you explore these powerful reflections on love.

1. “And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.” - John Connolly

2. “I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you.""I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too."His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me.” - Tessa Dare

3. “Love hurts when it changes us.” - Toba Beta

4. “She wanted to write to him. Tell him she was glad he was back, that he was alive, that he was home and safe. But words to him no longer fit right in her her mouth.Words which belonged in his ownership were no longer hers to give. Silence was the only acceptable state her heart would grant. He would never know what he missed, because she refused to be heard in his presence. All the words he could have had, all the phrases he might have danced with. The smiles which would have been imprinted upon his heart, would never be. And his lips would never be able to reply to the words she could not say.” - Jamie Weise

5. “Are you coming back to campus or you sticking around here with the prick?” - Holly Hood

6. “Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning?” - Holly Hood

7. “Frankie scanned her eyes. I don’t ask for things. I take them.” - Holly Hood

8. “Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me.Delaney nodded. That doesn’t mean you want to be found. Come on. One drink.” - Holly Hood

9. “Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.” - Luanne Rice

10. “If you love something, let it go…” - Karen Shreck

11. “If you love something, let it go...” - Karen Schreck

12. “Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you” - Cecily von Ziegesar

13. “I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.” - Ann Brashares

14. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” - Alysha Speer

15. “في القلب كانت جذوره أعمق من أن تقتلع .. إلا إذا اقتلع القلب نفسه” - يوسف السباعي

16. “Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.” - Kathryn Vance-Perez

17. “I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.” - Katie Crouch

18. “For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.” - Miranda July

19. “The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.” - Melissa Andrea

20. “Blazing? Droplets of thoughts can soothe it all. Don't feel depleted. Bask in the residue. That remains!” - Deeba Salim Irfan

21. “A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!” - Deeba Salim Irfan

22. “...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...” - John Geddes

23. “I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.” - Sylvia Plath

24. “Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets....He Is A Liability” - Mo Stegall From The Hand of Delilah

25. “Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat” - Sonya Watson

26. “The sky cries for those filled with sadness” - Sonya Watson

27. “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 syphon the life you had given so as to feed your selfish desires” - Sonya Watson

28. “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow” - Sonya Watson

29. “All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.” - Philip Pullman

30. “Sometimes Love can mean and addiction for hurt.” - Ira N. Barin

31. “You will be burning alive, when the ones who meant the world to you leaves for no reasons..... In fact, its not their absence which is hurting, but its the memories of their presence which is tearing your heart apart.....” - gayathri purushothaman

32. “Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.” - Catherynne M. Valente

33. “Besides, I'm looking for a man who doesn't have quite the mileage and the wear and tear on him as you do!” - L W Gouett

34. “E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazionipossano essere rivissute efatte nuove.Ma perfavorese ti senti in quel modonon chiamarenon scriverenon arrivare...” - Charles Bukowski

35. “Cerca di ricordare il momento in cui tutte le stupide innocenti cose che hai pensato della vita e dell'amore, tutte le cose che pensavi importassero, tutte le cose che pensavi fossero vere... cerca di ricordare quando si sono trasformate in bugie. -Kyle” - Chad Kultgen

36. “guido per le strade,ad un passo dal pianto,vergognandomi del mio sentimentalismoe del mio possibile amore.” - Charles Bukowski

37. “Come gli manca uno sguardo così. Se non lo conosci vivacchi e non ti manca. Ma se una stronza ti ha posato addosso quelle ali lì, ti ha fatto sentire l'eroe di una sceneggiatura temeraria, rimani tutta la vita un mendicante che va in giro a cercare quelle palpebre che si aprono solo per guardarti e si chiudono per imprigionarti.” - Margaret Mazzantini

38. “Dove sono le notti passate con così tante stelle e così tanta luna accese contemporaneamente in un cielo senza luna e senza stelle? Dimmi dove e quando ho iniziato a perderti dove e quando hai iniziato a perdermi dove e quando se non in questo letto di spine in una casa che non so e che non oso ascoltare mentre respira col mio respiro dove e quando potro dormire di nuovo senza incontrarti ancora e ancora e ancora. Dove e quando potrò smettere di ucciderti per ricominciare a vivere?” - Giorgio Faletti

39. “Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl, hurt and buffeted by a cruel and hopeless fate. If he had never experienced what it was like to be at the mercy of fate himself, he would not have noticed, but now he could see it with unbearable, heartrending clarity.” - Nahoko Uehashi

40. “If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.” - Brian MacLearn

41. “Think of that person you knew when you were a kid, who you always thought you could have loved completely and forever.Well, you could have. It’s the truth, and it’s the saddest and simplest thing. There isn’t just one person for each of us in the world. There aren’t many, but there are always a few people we could have made it with, that maybe we still want to make it with, that press themselves so close to our hearts they leave scars, and then slip through our fingers and disappear from our lives. And it doesn’t make a difference if you’re thirteen or ninety- eight because some things you feel are real, no matter when.” - Abigail Tarttelin

42. “Give them time to think things over.” - AceQwetyu

43. “i said i hate to see u..and i turned back...to hide my tears” - Surya Parthi

44. “...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...” - John Geddes

45. “I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating.Where have you gone?Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven.I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.” - Lisa Kleypas

46. “A new beginning is better than an old ending” - Bathsheba Dailey

47. “Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza.” - Jose Emilio Pacheco

48. “I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.” - Tammara Webber

49. “bueno, hay una chica, llevo enamorado de ella desde que tengo uso de razón, pero estoy bastante seguro de que ella no sabia nada de mi hasta la cosecha.” - Suzanne Collins

50. “But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.” - A.G. Howard

51. “I can't love you unless I give you up.” - Edith Wharton

52. “Do you know what that’s like?” Asher choked out, forcing himself to keep his feelings in check. “To be with someone who shines so brightly he’s all you can see? That’s how I feel when I’m with your brother. To me he’s… everything.” - Cardeno C.

53. “And when I looked outside the window, something inside of me churned, swallowing hard I looked up and saw blue. I squeezed my eyes shut, holding back the tears and emotions that were swelling inside of me. And then I realized, the only time that I could feel anything at all, was when I could feel him.” - Everance Caiser

54. “You want me,Andy. I can feel it. Yes I want you, I admitted.In a way you'll never want me.” - Ginger Voight

55. “Love, simple word with brimming of blood.” - Passionate Dreamer

56. “And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.” - Cassandra Clare

57. “It's such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there's too much of it around. There's too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that's what heavens is-- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.” - Gregory David Roberts

58. “I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass"You told them?" I asked Trenton, my voice broken. Trenton nodded.I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.” - Jamie McGuire

59. “It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.” - Virginia Woolf

60. “I’d had a really bad day and you hurt me.”His hand at my jaw tensed and he kept whispering when he said, “I’ll probably do it again, Red,because I’m a man and any man can be a dick. But I won’t do it like that, not again. I know you got softunder that attitude and I’ll have a mind to that.” - Kristen Ashley

61. “It’s one way or another, Summer. For me, it’s black and white. You’re either in the friend zone or the lover zone. And with you…Gosh, Summer, you’re in my danger zone. My rip-my-heart-out and change-me-forever zone. I have to tread lightly with you. Because if I don’t, I may never be able to find my way back.” - Kailin Gow