94 Love Hurts Quotes

Love, in all its glory, has the profound power to elevate and inspire, but it also possesses a darker, more painful side. We've all experienced those moments when love hurts—when it leaves us questioning the very foundation of our emotions. To capture this poignant aspect of love, we've gathered a curated collection of the top 94 Love Hurts Quotes. These quotes delve into the heartache, struggles, and sometimes bittersweet beauty of love's more challenging moments. Whether you're seeking solace, understanding, or simply a reflection of your own experiences, these quotes are here to offer comfort and insight. Dive in and explore the raw, honest emotions that make up the other side of love's coin.

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. “To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.” - Alexandra Adornetto

3. “Love hurts, if rejected or betrayed.If not at all, then love is all around.” - Toba Beta

4. “Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts.” - Toba Beta

5. “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

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

7. “The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma is so intense that the mind finds it hard to cope with the loss. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” - Federico Chini

8. “She loves him with a love that sees no flaws, find no fault, knows no bounds...Oh God, please don't let her hurt too badly and, please, never, never let me love like that.” - Jennifer Wilde

9. “Weißt du, die Leute lügen, wenn sie sagen, nichts sei so stark wie die Liebe. Das ist eine der größten und gemeinsten Lügen überhaupt. Liebe ist nicht stark. Sie ist so verletzlich wie nur irgendwas. Und wenn wir nicht achtgeben, dann zerbricht sie wie Glas.""Aber du liebst ihn noch immer. Sogar heute noch.""Und, hilft mir das weiter? Macht mich das stärker?" Sie schüttelte den Kopf. "Es tut nur weh, das ist alles. Es tut furchtbar weh, jeden Tag und jede Nacht. Es ist auch nicht wahr, dass die Zeit alle Wunden heilt. Sie macht es schlimmer. Die Zeit macht es immer nur noch schlimmer.” - Kai Meyer

10. “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

11. “What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.” - Amanda Grace

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

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

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

15. “If you want to get rid of Rose then fine, I’ll take care of it. But I don’t think that is going to solve your problem. You’ll still be here. And you are your problem.” - Holly Hood

16. “Sam studied his brother. At one time he thought Frankie had a good head on his shoulders. Sure, he had a temper. And he was conceited. But he always used common sense. But now he wasn’t so sure if that were true. He had brought him his lifeless fiancé. Like a dog dragging in a dead rabbit looking for praise.” - Holly Hood

17. “Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart” - Cassandra Clare

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

19. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

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

21. “I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it with all my heart, though you may discount the heart of an old nanny like me. For real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.” - Anne Elisabeth Stengl

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

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

24. “I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” - Coco J. Ginger

25. “The more I love the person, the more rejection I recieved.” - OhMJ

26. “To sing is to express, to love is to hurt” - OhMJ

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

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

29. “I honestly don't think you do, at least not completely. Look, you will always hold a special place in my heart, but I can’t keep competing for a battle that’s already won.” - Rebecca Gober

30. “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.” - Carol Rifka Brunt

31. “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

32. “She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.” - James Dashner

33. “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

34. “Estou decidida a adorar-te durante toda a vida e a não ter olhos para mais ninguém. E asseguro-te que também tu farás bem em não amar mais ninguém. Poderias, acaso, contentar-te com uma paixão menos ardente do que a minha? Encontrarás, talvez, maior beleza (e, no entanto, disseste-e outrora que não me faltava beleza), mas não encontrarás jamais amor tamanho - e o resto não conta. [...] Conjuro-te a que me digas por que é que te empenhaste em me encantar como fizeste, se já sabias que me havias de abandonar? Por que é que puseste tanto empenho em me tornar infeliz? Por que não me deixaste em paz no meu convento? Tinha-te feito algum mal? [...] Atribuo toda esta desgraça à cegueira com que me abandonei a dedicar-me a ti. Pois não devia eu prever que os meus prazeres acabariam antes que acabasse o meu amor? Podia eu esperar que ficasses para sempre em Portugal e que renunciasses à tua fortuna e à tua pátria para só pensares em mim? [...] Bem claramente vejo qual seria o remédio para todos os meus males e em breve me libertaria deles se deixasse de te amar. Mas ai de mim!, que terrível remédio! Não! Antes quero sofrer ainda mais do que esquecer-te... Infeliz que sou! Dependerá isso de mim? Não posso acusar-me de ter desejado, nem que fosse só por um momento, deixar de te amar! [...] Não é para te obrigar a escreveres-me que digo todas estas coisas. Oh!, não te violentes! De ti não quero nada senão o que espontaneamente vier e recuso todos os testemunhos de amor que constrangido me desses. Comprazer-me-ia em desculpar-te, só porque talvez tu te sintas bem em não ter o incômodo de me escrever, e sinto uma profunda disposição para te perdoar todas as faltas que cometeres.” - Mariana Alcoforado

35. “Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!” - Deeba Salim Irfan

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

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

38. “It was like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why. I understood more than him, of course, but just barely. I would never fully understand how I could have ever strayed from such a warm, sensitive and caring soul.” - S.C. Stephens

39. “It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.” - Susan Sontag

40. “Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worstI can endure my own despair, But not another’s hope.” - William Walsh

41. “...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

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

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

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

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

46. “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

47. “I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.” - Kate Chisman

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

49. “We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time with you, you say. If we're still good, next week maybe.That's the most we can hope for. Nothing thrown, nothing said that we might remember for years. You watch me while you put a brush through your hair. Each strand that breaks is as long as my arm. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?” - Junot Diaz

50. “You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.” - Junot Diaz

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

52. “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

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

54. “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

55. “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

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

57. “Un dolore mi trafisse il cuore, come succedeva ogni volta che vedevo una ragazza che mi piaceva andarsene in direzione opposta alla mia in questo mondo troppo grande.” - Jack Kerouac

58. “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

59. “Nessuno trova mai la persona giusta.” - Charles Bukowski

60. “Someday you'll find the placeIt's the place where love takes over hateThen you'll see all the things you doAffect everyone around youThen you'll see there's no fear at allYou held my hand, we took down that wallAs I looked at you with nothing to sayNow I understand why you pushed me awayI looked far and now I seeThat the only one I needed was me” - Hilary Duff

61. “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

62. “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

63. “There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.” - Brian MacLearn

64. “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

65. “We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.” - R.D. Ronald

66. “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

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

68. “However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away.Never enough to make them love you.” - Manna Francis

69. “When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.” - Neal Shusterman

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

71. “...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

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

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

74. “You reached into my chest with your words. When you spoke, my heart danced. Love muddled thoughts based in reason. Interest withered like a flower in dry heat then your words wrapped themselves around my heart and yanked it from my body. Now I stand bewildered by the sight of my heart beating on the cold concrete floor.” - Sonya Watson

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

76. “What good does it do you to love?” - Trisha Leigh

77. “. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.” - Courtney Giardina

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

79. “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.

80. “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

81. “Cinta didapat dengan perjuangan,dipertahankan dengan perjuangan.selama proses itu,mungkin akan ada pertengkaran,teriakan satu sama lain,tangisan dan hati yang terluka,tetapi kemudian ketika mendapatkan kekuatan untuk berdiri lagi,mungkin kamu akan tahu,mengapa syair cinta,puisi cinta,lagu cinta atau cerita dibuat.A Perfect Love” - Yuchita Erayani

82. “If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never yours to begin with.” - Jack Engelhard

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

84. “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

85. “It's not about something i have felt, It's about my life;it's not about something that i have not, Its' about something inside me;It's not about that i am gonna cry It's about something that i have no tears left;It's not about something that i love you, It's about you don't..” - ravi nawandhar

86. “Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbing me of my senses and physically, excruciatingly painful. My mother's words echoed in my ear. Abby was the girl I had to fight for, and I went down fighting. None of it was ever going to be enough.” - Jamie McGuire

87. “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

88. “I'm bad for you. I told you I will break you and I will. I wish I knew how not to. I can't. I'm sorry. You have to take me like this...” - Mercy Cortez (LiveForeverAnon)

89. “She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body.” - Nicki Elson

90. “You took my heart and you held it in your mouthAnd, with a word all my love came rushing outAnd, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single wordThere is a hollow in me now...And Every whisper, every sighEats away at this heart of mineAnd there is a hollow in me now.So I put my faith in something unknownI'm living on such sweet nothingBut I'm trying to hope with nothing to holdI'm living on such sweet nothing.” - Florence Welch Calvin Harris

91. “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

92. “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

93. “Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.” - Taryn Plendl

94. “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