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Quotes About Pain

In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
~ Pema Chodron
The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
~ Ovid
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
~ Alain de Botton
You say love is just a four letter word.
~ Bob Dylan
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.
~ Dave Matthews
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
~ David Frye
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
~ Dean Koontz
There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
~ Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
~ Arnold Arre, After Eden
Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.
~ Abbi Glines
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
~ Albert Camus
Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
~ Amy Tan
Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.
~ Jenna Blum
Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.
~ Louise Hay
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
~ Richard Barnfield
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
~ Sarah Dessen
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
~ Italo Svevo
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe