Love Is Pain Quotes

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• A mighty pain to love it is,
  And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
  But, of all pains, the greatest pain
  Is to love, but love in vain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Love, Life, Pain

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1707). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.55

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

  James A. Baldwin

  Forgiveness, Encouragement, Pain

  "Me and My House". Harper's Magazine, November 1955.

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• People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.

  Jim Morrison

  Pain, Love Is, Reality

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

  Jim Morrison

  Pain, People, Suffering

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

  LeBron James

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Pain, Love You, Broke Up

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• So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Heartbreak, True Love, Heartbroken

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• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

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• Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Grief, Losing Everything

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  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

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• Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Mother, Pain

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.534, Delphi Classics

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• Every love outside of HIS love, is pain.

  Rumi

  Pain, Love Is, His Love

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• You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Running, Pain

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• Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

  Jack London

  Pain, Love Is, Peaceful

  Jack London (2017). “The Complete Novels of Jack London – 22 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Burning Daylight, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, The Valley of the Moon, The Star Rover, Hearts of Three…”, p.435, e-artnow

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• You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it ... Love is pain ... Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature.

  Jane Espenson

  Pain, Love You, Love Is

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