Explore our collection love hurts quotes that speak of sometimes love just doesn’t work out, and that can leave us feeling heartbroken and lost.
Love can be a powerful and transformative experience, but it can also bring pain and heartbreak. Love hurts when we invest our time, energy, and emotions into a relationship that does not work out or when we experience unrequited love.
The pain of love can be overwhelming, leaving us feeling lost, confused, and broken heart. But even in the depths of our despair, there is comfort to be found in the words of others who have experienced similar feelings.
In this context, love hurts quotes offer a sense of validation and support during hard times. They come from famous writers and poets to anonymous individuals that sharing their thoughts and feelings.
Let’s explore the world of love hurts quotes. Through these quotes, you can find a way to process your emotions and ultimately, to begin the healing journey toward hope and renewal.
Encouragement love hurts quotes
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
Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.
Faraaz Kazi
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.
John Green

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
What will survive of us is love.
Philip Larkin
Don’t be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.
Stephen Colbert
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver

Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.
Will Smith
But love brings much happiness – much more so than pining brings pain.
Albert Einstein
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.
Oprah Winfrey
Healing love hurts quotes
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks
Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living f**king worthwhile.
Mia Asher
I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.
Nicholas Sparks

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Richard Puz
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden
Love shouldn’t hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points.
Yoshiko Sakurai

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
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek
You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.
Johnny Depp
Love hurts quotes short
Sadness, longing, and heartbreak – experience the many facets of love with our love hurts quotes.
Tears are words the heart can’t express.
Gerard Way
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.
Stephen R. Covey
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Rupert Brooke

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy
Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.
Laura Ramirez
You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Jim Morrison

But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.
A.G. Howard
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da Vinci
Deep love hurts quotes
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
The pain of one–sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me.
Sierra Simone
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.
Nicholas Sparks
Don’t hurt my feelings anymore. I left you my roses and you gave me your thorns.
Godwin Delali Adadzie
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Neil Gaiman
My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.
Marina and the Diamonds
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
C. S. Lewis
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway
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
Love is hurt quotes
Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
Alysha Speer
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.
Nicholas Sparks
Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts.
Mesa Selimovic
Love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.
Mesa Selimovic
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
Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.
Aman Jassal
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
Louis de Bernieres
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
Elie Wiesel
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Louis de Bernieres
Overcoming love hurts quotes
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
Oh, 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.
Yip Harburg
People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
Johnny Depp
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
Henri Nouwen
Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.
Matareva Pearl
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.
Louis de Bernieres
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca the Elder
Heart touching love hurts quotes
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Samuel Butler
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Carroll Bryant
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.
Nishan
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
Poise
You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.
Ayushee Ghoshal
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Vipin Sharma
Quotes about love hurts
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.
Tablo
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.
Scott Adams
Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
Holly Black
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
Kurt Cobain
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
Love doesn’t hurt you. A person that doesn’t know how to love hurts you. Don’t get it twisted.
Tony Gaskins
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.
Ella Harper
Love hurts quotes for her
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?
Faraaz Kazi
It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.
Anna Akhmatova
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
Ann Brashares
Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
Maya Angelou
We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.
Taylor Swift
It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.
Katie Ashley
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston
Love hurts quotes for him
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.
Johnny Depp
When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.
David Grayson
You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned through pain.
Boonaa Mohammed
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.
Roy Orbison
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
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Final thoughts
These love hurts quotes offer a source of comfort and validation during tough times. They are a reminder that love is a powerful and transformative experience that can bring both joy and pain, and that it is through embracing both that we can truly grow and thrive.
By incorporating the pearl of wisdom to your own emotions, you can find comfort and hope in the midst of life’s many challenges. Allow these love hurts quotes close to your heart and become a source of your comfort and validation.
Hope that our collection of love hurts quotes has resonated with you. If you enjoy this article, share these quotes with others who may be going through a difficult time, offering a source of empathy and understanding.
Remember that while love can hurt, it is also a transformative and life–changing experience that can bring joy, growth, and fulfillment. Let us embrace the full spectrum of our emotions and experiences, finding strength and resilience in the face of life’s challenges.