We have gathered a collection of touching and deep quotes about love’s pain and sorrows.
Whether you are going through a breakup or dealing with unrequited love, these quotes will offer comfort, perspective, and a reminder that, even in the midst of heartache, love can ultimately heal and transform us.
Heartbreak is our greatest teacher, and if so, thank you for making me wise.Joe Goldberg, You, S4.Ep1: Joe Takes a Holiday
Love is not a thing one is able or not able to do based on some magic. Some chemistry. That is for plays. Love is determination. Love is a choice one makes. You take someone in marriage, and you choose to love them. You do not give yourself any other option. Because marriage is difficult. Full of pains. And the life of a royal is lonely. So you grab someone, and you hang on. You love, and you love hard because if you do not, you are lost.Queen Charlotte, (to Edward), Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, S1.Ep5: Gardens in Bloom
You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beatin’ just the same.Ninny Threadgoode, Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.Bob Marley, Bob Marley (Songbook): Guitar Chord Songbook (ed. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2011)
It’s easy to hate. It’s easy to fear. It’s goddamn hard to love. But it’s not optional. It’s essential. It’s life or death. I challenge you. Love each other. Do it. Do it better. Now and every day.Jessica Davis, 13 Reasons Why, S4.Ep10: Graduation
We have to live with the fear and the uncertainty that everything can be taken from us in an instant. Because that’s the price we pay for choosing the people that we love.Felicity Smoak, (to William), Arrow, S6.Ep11: We Fall
He’s fine. That’s it. Nothing wrong with that, most people are fine. But it’s not about him. It’s about why the f*** you think he deserves you. You deserve someone who makes you feel like you’ve been struck by f***ing lightning. Don’t you dare settle for fine.Roy Kent, (to Rebecca, about John), Ted Lasso, S2.Ep1: Goodbye Earl
Be careful. Love is a weapon, dearie. The most dangerous weapon of all, which means the pain you should worry about isn’t the kind inflicted by a broken sword, but the kind that comes from a broken heart.Rumplestiltskin, Once Upon a Time, S5.Ep4: The Broken Kingdom
Love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and any time you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.William Faulkner, The Wild Palms (1939)
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865)
When you love somebody, and I mean, you really love them, you gotta be willing to do anything for them. Even if that means letting them go.Ace, (to Krypto), DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
You don’t know about real loss, ’cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself.Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting
You shouldn’t try to block out all those emotions because that’s how heartbreak becomes unresolved and turns into something bitter. It’s really important that you feel all those feelings, as much as they hurt.Jean Milburn, (to Otis), Sex Education, S4.Ep8
‘T is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (Edward Moxon & Co., ed. 1950), Canto XXVII, Page 44
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Only people capable of loving deeply can experience profound grief; but the very necessity they feel to love serves as an antidote to grief and heals them.Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (1856)
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love (2006)
Love is not enough. You got to fight to protect kindness. You get attached to people and things. And they might just break your heart. But that’s being alive.Burt Berendsen, Amsterdam (2022)
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.Sigmund Freud, Civilization And Its Discontents (1930)
No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you’re gonna get hurt. That’s just the nature of caring about someone. No matter who you love, they will break your heart along the way.Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six (2019)
Love is a dagger. It’s a weapon to be wielded far away or up close. You can see yourself in it. It’s beautiful. Until it makes you bleed.Loki Laufeyson, Loki, S1.Ep3: Lamentis
When you love someone and that person loves you in return you’re uniquely vulnerable. They have a power to hurt you that’s like nothing else.Elijah Mikaelson, The Originals, S1.Ep11: Après Moi
You’re in pain. But the thing you lost is the same thing that can stop that pain.Anne, After Life, S1.Ep4
All is fair in love and war, but some battles leave no victor, only a trail of broken hearts that makes us wonder if the price we pay is ever worth the fight.Lady Whistledown, Bridgerton, S1.Ep6: Swish
Love can’t be tested. Honesty, yes. Loyalty, for sure. But not love. Love goes on forever, even if we come to hate the one we love. You can love someone and do terrible things to them, all at the same time.Didier Levy, Shantaram, S1.Ep9: Should I Stay or Should I Go
You know what people like you will never understand? Love is a strength, not a liability. The heartbreak that I’ve suffered? The people I’ve lost? They don’t hold me back. They make me fight that much harder.Barry Allen, The Flash, S8.Ep13: Death Falls
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.Leonardo da Vinci, The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, ed. 1883)
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day (April 1, 1939)
Just because someone hurts you doesn’t mean you can simply stop loving them. It’s not a person’s actions that hurt the most. It’s the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear.Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us (2016)