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Quotes About Heartache

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
~ Pablo Neruda
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved
~ George Crabbe
Love is a hole in the heart.
~ Ben Hecht
Absence is the enemy of love
~ Proverb
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~ Charlie Brown
The course of true love never did run smooth.
~ William Shakespeare
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
~ Anonymous
All love is unrequited. All of it.
~ J Michael Straczynski
Where there is love there is pain
~ Spanish proverb
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
~ Marcel Proust
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
~ Anonymous
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
Love is a crazy thing. It sucks and is totally overrated.
~ Charles Dickens
Only love is like an arrow to your heart; the more you try to take it out, the more pain and blood you get
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Lonely is a man without love.
~ Dorothy Parker
I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?
~ Buddha
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.
~ William Shakespeare
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.
~ Sri Chinmoy
O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse.
~ Unknown
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
~ Ivan Panin
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
~ Shirley Hazzard
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
~ Guy de Maupassant