Heartbreak is often a heavy burden. It’s a shared human experience, that deep ache from love lost or unfulfilled. Throughout history, writers and poets have sought to capture this pain, offering words that resonate with our own struggles and sadness.
These “Love Hurts” quotes serve as a lifeline. They remind us we’re not alone in our sorrow. Let’s explore these poignant words, hoping they bring comfort and understanding to aching hearts.
Heartbreak Quotes for the Broken-Hearted
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.”
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
“Heartbreak is the national anthem; we sing it proudly.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.”
“The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.”
“The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.”
“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream—whatever that dream might be.”
“What do you do when the one who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?”
“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”
“We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, yet, like Shakespeare, we often end up writing tragedies.”
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
Love Hurts Quotes for the Soul
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.”
“The sweetest part of love is its end.”
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead, keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”
“Sometimes a broken heart can mend through the gentle whisper of time, but the scars it leaves will always remind us of what we had.”
“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”
“It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.”
“Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like hugging a cactus; the tighter you hold on, the more it hurts.”
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness and sadness.”
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“Love is a double-edged sword; it can heal the deepest wounds or inflict the most painful cuts.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
“Love diminishes when it has to wait too long.”
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
Quotes about Pain in Love
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.”
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“One of the hardest things to do is watch the person you love love someone else.”
“Love is a garden of thorns that blooms for but a short while, but the memory of its scent lingers long after the flowers die.”
“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.”
“The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling to stop the tears from falling.”
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“Sometimes it’s better to be alone. No one can hurt you that way.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.”
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.”
“The clouds wept when my heart sang for you, now I weep and the clouds drift by unknowing.”
“Love is a deep well of joy, but beneath the joy is an unfathomable current of sorrow.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
Letting Go Quotes After a Love Gone Wrong
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“The only way to win at love is to risk everything and then let go.”
“People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t, we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
“You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in their actions. Reflect, release, and move forward.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“The truth is unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
“The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.”
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“Pain will leave you when you let go.”
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
“If you love something, let it go. If it returns, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it wasn’t.”
“When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and find me.”
“I think that the best thing we can do for our future is to leave the past behind.”
“Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.”
“To let go is to be grateful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and helped you learn and grow.”
“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.”
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”
“Letting go helps you to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore your balance.”
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
“Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.”
“You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”
Healing Quotes from Love Hurts
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“Love may be a battlefield, but the scars remind us we survived.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
“Every heartbreak teaches a lesson; every lesson makes us wiser.”
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead, keep your head up high and gaze into heaven, for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”
“After all the tears and heartache, we learn that love, even in its ending, is a gift.”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“You must go on a journey to find out where you belong, but you’ll never feel complete until you reunite with love.”
“Hearts may break, but they are also incredibly resilient.”
“With time, grief softens. The heart adapts to even the deepest scars.”
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“Out of the pain of our heartaches, we discover the strength of our love.”
“Love wins. Even when it feels like it’s losing, it wins because it transforms you.”
“In every heartache lies a lesson in resilience and grace.”
“Hearts are not just broken; they are open. And an open heart can heal.”
“To love and be hurt is better than to lock your heart away.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears but also waters seeds of healing.”
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky.”
Quotes about the Struggles of Love
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“Love is tough; it has its thorns, but that’s what makes it beautiful.”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you, but it often leaves scars.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
“Love is a battlefield.”
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“The greatest loss in life is not death; it’s what dies inside us while we live.”
“To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best.”
“Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.”
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It’s a perpetual wound.”
“Love, it knows no boundaries. But it does carry the weight of the world.”
“Love can be a sword, it might wound you, but sometimes it heals the deepest cuts.”
“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
“The pain of love is even deeper than the loss itself.”
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
“Where there is love, there is pain.”
“It’s hard to love someone who’s in love with someone else. You have to ignore the pain and swallow your pride.”
“Love’s greatest paradox: it can be one’s healing and one’s poison.”
“Not all who wander are lost, but sometimes, love is the path that leads us astray.”
“Love is a game that two can play and both can win, but it often feels like a lonely contest.”
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Emotional Quotes from the Heartache of Love
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.”
“Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love.”
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”
“When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the soul laughs for what it has found.”
“What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.”
“When you love and it hurts, you know you’re alive.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
“Love is a battlefield.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.”
Powerful Love Hurts Quotes to Reflect Upon
“The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.”
“Love is a battlefield.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.”
“When love is not madness, it is not love.”
“Love is a fabric that never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief.”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“The soul’s joy lies in doing.”
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.”
“Love can be the most wonderful thing you give, but it can also break your heart.”
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
“True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
Wrapping-up
Love isn’t always smooth and easy. Sometimes, it brings pain and heartbreak. The “Love Hurts Quotes” on our list showcase these feelings well. Reading them can offer comfort and understanding. They remind us that others have felt the same way and have put these feelings into words beautifully.
These quotes can be a source of strength. They can help you find the courage to move forward. If you’re going through a tough time in love, these words may help. They show that it’s okay to feel hurt and that you’re not alone. Keep these quotes close, and let them remind you that healing is possible.