Why Love hurts quotes for when you are feeling broken or maybe someone hurts you badly. We all face many situations where we feel heartbroken due to some circumstances. We start looking for love hurts quotes and browsing through the internet.
I have lived a few of these lines myself, and I come back to this list whenever I need to remember that the hurt does pass. So, here is the list of why love hurts quotes.
Why Love Hurts Quotes
I started saving these love quotes after my own first heartbreak, when I could not find the words to say what I was feeling. If you are in that place right now, I think one of these will say it for you.
- “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
- “Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a man who doesn’t love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who’ll break my Heart” – Cassandra Clare
- “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.” – Mia Asher
- “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
- “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
- “Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you” – Cecily von Ziegesar
- “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
- “It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.” – Katie Ashley
- “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” – Aman Jassal
- “You did love me,” I whispered. “Just not the same way I loved you.” – Jess Rothenberg
- “The end of love looks like the beginning of the war” – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- “But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more until my heart is strangled and broken.” – G. Howard
- “I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. And I love you anyway remember?” – Emme Rollins
Heart Touching Painful Love Quotes
These are the ones that hit hardest for me. Read them on a quiet day; they bring the kind of emotional truth that only loss can teach.
- “You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth.
You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.” – Delano Johnson - “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you, then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go” – Drake
- “Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.” – Anmol Rawat
- “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 siphon the life you had given to feed your selfish desires” – Sonya Watson
- “The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
- “The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.” – Anmol Rawat
- “Love hurts if rejected or betrayed.
If not at all, then love is all around.” – Toba Beta - “Love is like a lost fart. If you have to force it, it’s probably shit.” – Stephen K. Amos
- “When it comes to love, Princess, rules blur, and traditions fade,” – Rose B. Mashal
- “Are you coming back to campus or you sticking around here with the prick?” – Holly Hood
- “You don’t wanna talk to me, I will leave your Room eternally, your heart will be out of my life and that’s my promise to you” – Sami Abouzid
- “Love is stupid. All we do is break one another’s heart.” – Heather” – Holly Black
- “One of life’s great curses is our inability to control who we fall in love with. Sometimes we devote so much time and love to people and things that don’t return it or deserve it!” – Alex Haditaghi
Sad Love Hurts Quotes
Grief and love come from the same place. When the pain feels like too much, these sad lines let you feel it instead of fighting it.
- “So, it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – A. Bucchianeri
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone” – Richard Puz
- “I wore your promise on my finger for one year I’ll wear your name on my heart till I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” – Coco J. Ginger
- “People either do two things with love. They’re either showing it or they’re crying out for it.” – Edith Mackenzie
- “I see a lot of love in your heart. Despite the pain it causes. Love is like a stubborn disease. There’s no way to cure it.” – Carlos Aleman
Love Hurts Quotes for Him
When a man does the hurting, it can be hard to say it to his face. These are for the things you wish he could hear.
- “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
- “I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.” – Shannon A. Thompson
- “Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.” – Catherynne M. Valente
- “Ladies if A Man is More Invested and Concerned About Your Assets. He Is A Liability” – Mo Stegall From The Hand of Delilah
- “He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed, and rebuilt. And he loved it.” – Jess Michaels
- “He was my sweetest fantasy and my bitter reality.” – Luffina Lourduraj
- “You were enough, maybe you were too much, maybe he prefers less and you deserve more.” – H. Sin
- “Each one of us had his princess and we all thought our love would last forever and we all got hurt in the same old-fashioned way” – Sami Abouzid
Love Hurts Quotes for Her
And these are for her, for when the relationship leaves you needing words she never said.
- “I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.” – Ann Brashares
- “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
- “It had made her too helpless because that’s what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.” – Alice Hoffman
- “By then there had been other men. She’d flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, in the end, was in splinters.” – Rebecca Makkai
- “If love is madness, then she was unhinged.” – Bibiana Krall
- “I was haunted by a painful desire for her, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.” – Anoir Ou-Chad
- “You know what hurts the most is you giving your heart and soul to her cause you trust her the most then she humiliates you and hurt your heart and soul then leaves you in the streets of life like a victimized dog” – Sami Abouzid
Short Love Hurts Quotes
Sometimes a good short line says more than a long letter. These work when you need to look strong and live your day anyway.
- “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” – Alysha Speer
- “Love must not suffocate but breathe on its own.” – Soraya Naomi
- “The sky cries for those filled with sadness” – Sonya Watson
- “Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.” – Luanne Rice
- “I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.” – Nick Harkaway
- “Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat” – Sonya Watson
- “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow” – Sonya Watson
- “The rap of amity-period is retribution.” – Noman Nayyar Kulachvi
- “Why would you care about someone who won’t care about you” – Sami Abouzid
Very Short Love Hurts Quotes
Two or three words, yes, sometimes that is all you are able to give. That is enough.
- “Love hurts when it changes us.” – Toba Beta
- “If you love something, let it go…” – Karen Shreck
- “If you love something, let it go…” – Karen Schreck
- “Love is, in fact, a prison.” – D. Aliwal
- “Love is a lonely pursuit.” – Wyatt B. Pringle
- “Fear lies. Save love.” – Arif Naseem
- “Come on LOVE me!” – Rashid Jorvee
Love Hurts Messages
I keep these as messages to send when you cannot find your own words. Take one, make it yours, and send it out into the world. Your sense of self comes back slowly, and letting joy in again starts with saying the true thing, even if it was never said out loud before.
- “Moving on is tough, especially, when you gave too much love.” – Heather Mae Buban
- “Love is a journey and a destination – long and excruciating on the way, unexpected and ecstatic if found.” – Stewart Stafford
- “Love. The only emotion that could twist you into such a knot that you could no longer distinguish between wanting to be with someone and wanting to destroy everything you shared. Love. The only emotion that could break the same person it had healed.” – Jacqueline Simon Gunn
- “All you want is something else, something different something as simple as not being second.” – James Hilton
- “People don’t mind taking some hard punches for the right reasons.” – Christopher X. Shade
- “In that intimacy, when we selflessly love each other, it changes us. It stays in or lives, even when we are apart.” – James Hilton
- “The ones who left you alone in the darkest cold nights will leave you once again and again in different circumstances, and different times, evil souls will never change” – Sami Abouzid
- “I hope you find a person who will stop reminding you about your failed past relationships.” – sub quotes
- “Days will come baby days will go, but time will always show that my love was true to you.” – Sami Abouzid
- “To be in love with someone who doesn’t love you back is your choice. But when you make it, don’t promise to make it work. Not every promise turn fruitful.” – Madhuri Tamse
- “True love exists as long as you can truly love someone else as well.” – Naide P Obiang
- “When dealing with love and relationships you can’t read a book as one if you are on different pages.” – Angel Moreira
- “Sometimes I wake up wanting to tell you to leave everything you claim to hold dear behind and be with me instead, but oftentimes I wake up wanting to tell you to go fuck yourself.” – Ahmed Mostafa
