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Quotes About Heartache

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.
~ Sir Thomas More
Loss. A known absence. If you didn't know it, it would be nothing, which it is, of course, a nothing of another kind, as acutely felt as a blister, but a tumult, too, in the region of the heart and lungs, an emptiness with a name: You
~ Siri Hustvedt
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
~ Maximilian Schell
Every second you spend with the wrong person, is a second wasted in the search for true love.
~ Leon Brown
Unrequited love's a bore.
~ Lorenz Hart
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.
~ Henry Taylor
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
~ Jane Austen
I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.
~ Lana Del Rey
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
~ L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
Falling in love is painful on the knees.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.
~ Steve Rasnic Tem
I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care
~ Deborah Cox
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
~ Sylvia Plath, Ariel
His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.
~ Faraaz Kazi
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
~ Albert Camus
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is more cruel than lust.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
~ John Green
Goodbye -- Because I love you.
~ Kate Chopin
I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
~ Lauren Oliver
If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.
~ Rumer Godden