Painful Love Quotes

“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise

“When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”
― Anmol Rawat, A Little Chorus of Love

“He started to estrange her...
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart,
So broken as they drifted apart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight

“The loneliness I feel when I am alone is better than the sadness I feel when I am with you.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“I vow not to show, not to reveal
my burnings, my ashes, and your embers, your flames running rampant
on my will to lift myself from your reminiscence.”
― Yarro Rai

“what is love? what was love for me?
it was when I believed I was the happiest person on earth if I had only him and nothing else
it was when I looked at him and felt a pain in my chest over how I would find anything more beautiful
it was when I started writing cause what he made me feel was so intense it couldn't just remain in my thoughts
it was pain, a feeling that emptied out my chest and ate me alive knowing just because I love you, it didn't entitle me to have you.
My love for you was like an ocean slowly drowning me and I was clinging to the last piece of driftwood that was my hope.”
― adya agni

“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Why do you speak like we won’t meet again for such a long time?”
“Because we didn’t, for such a long time,”
― Sapan Saxena, Unns: The Captivation

“To live in a hallucination of being loved is more painful than rejection.”
― Vinaya Panicker

“Sometimes, giving all of your love isn't much so save a good soul, it demands soul for a soul as fair payment.”
― Gurusharan Singh

“I liked you... How ironic that the words that I'm finally able to say... signal the end”
― Nagamu Nanaji, Parfait Tic! 1

“I was haunted by a painful desire for you, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Maang-ikwe told me one night how I had sprung from a place of desire, anger, and fear. But my mother also told me, “It does not matter how we begin. It matters how we end.” She pointed out, “Pain brings a richer harvest than contentment.”

I think she was right. For as I look around at the people present, I am thankful for the harvest of lives which came birthed from painful places.”
― Jenny Knipfer, Harvest Moon

“Crueler the punishment, braver the love,
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Are you in love?
Yes.
Are you in pain?
Always.
Are you happy?
Always.
In awe they ask me,
how can you be all at once!
I smile, and respond,
because I am alive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Past relationships are a loss, so we have to deal with them like loss. We must fully grieve. We must feel the depth of our pain so that our pain doesn't become the home where we learn to live.”
― Jackie Viramontez

“We were silent for a long, long time. My thoughts chased each other about in my head. My feelings rose and fell like a lover’s body, up and down. I waited for the whole morass to settle inside me before I dared anything else.
— It’s getting dark. I said finally.
— Figuratively speaking? he asked.”
― Tam Hoskyns, The Talking Cure

“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, Lemon Twist

“Love is knowing that your feet carry you to a painful place, and still go anyway.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“every time I long for you, I promise myself it's the last, I wish I could love myself the way I love you
unconditionally. overlooking ever negative, repeating small gestures over and over in my head to get high from that nervous feeling
how do I manage to remember every little instance between us when I can't even remember to eat
how did you become so important that I'm willing to give up my dreams to support you in following yours.
I'm turning into a fool hanging onto the last thread of hope believing it to be love.”
― adya agni

“you're a museum of things that remind me of the worst time of my life
yet somehow, you radiate comfort
I want to feel, remember how the pain felt when I'm around you
it hurts, but it's a good kind of pain, I've finally been released.”
― adya agni

“I must have been a poet,
that might justify
the high sensibility drifted apart.
But then, I ask myself:
“What is a poet
without his voice of happiness?”
“What is a poet
when his sensibility
is found in nothing
but fatal solitude and deep melancholy?!”
My beliefs pour into unfounded questions
of my soul's floated songs.

(Excerpted from Tears of pain, chapter Pain)”
― Claudia Pavel, The odyssey of my lost thoughts

“Tangled in my powder white bed sheets as you're longing for my ribs to be crushed under the weight of your black and only then, I'll know it's true.”
― Lea Malot, Coffins & Rhinestones

“Sometimes holding upon is more painful
than letting it go. - Sauvik Kundu”
― Linda Greyman, Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection

“No Pain, No Hope (The Sonnet)

Heavier the pain, greater the hope,
But the language of hope is not inaction.
Real hope brings a sense of responsibility,
Whereas imitation hope induces stagnation.

Heavier the pain, stronger the purpose,
But all purpose is fiction without footwork.
Real purpose does not let you sleep at night,
Imitation purpose keeps you aloof from work.

Crueler the punishment, braver the love,
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.

Crazier the torture, sweeter the memories.
There is no character if there is no crisis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Pain of love is pearl of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Pain is a way that we get to remove the poison that builds up in our lives over time, just like you prune flowers and remove all the thorns from it from time to time, these moments of pain are designed to prune us, to help us look inside and outside of ourselves for something more meaningful and to learn to live for others more than we live for ourselves.”
― Nontobeko Jobe

“You’re my pain… you’re my peace.

Experiencing love can be different for everyone.
Sometimes, love is as simple and as beautiful
As watching the moon, and sometimes it is as hurtful
and as lonely as counting the stars.
I don't know what kind of relationship this is with you,
You’re my pain… you’re my peace.”
― T. Shree, You're Still The One I Want For Life