Love Is Always Painful Quotes

#1. Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

Mother Teresa

#2. Childbirth has always been a dangerous undertaking, but at least I've managed to eliminate the most painful part of the process.
What's that? Sex?
Love.

Brian K. Vaughan

#3. I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Madi Diaz

#4. But love isn't always roses and rainbows and butterflies in your stomach. It's equally cruel and painful and the world's worst villain.

J.A. Redmerski

#5. Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization so often they hide behind righteous arrogance.

David W. Earle

#6. She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Edna O'Brien

#7. Love isn't always smooth or straightforward. It can be messy and painful ... Doesn't mean it isn't still the most incredible thing that can ever happen to you.

Kylie Scott

#8. Cal's touch has not erased Maven's. My memories are still there, still just as painful as they were yesterday. And as much as I try, I have not forgotten the canyon that will always stretch between us. No kind of love can erase his faults, just like none can erase mine.

Victoria Aveyard

#9. Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

Jodi Picoult

#10. I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.

Mary E. Pearson

#11. Is love always like this? Is it always so passionate, yet so damn painful?

Anna Todd

#12. [On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...

Tove Ditlevsen

#13. To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought that love was freedom.

Tessa Shaffer

#14. I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.

Melanie Iglesias

#15. If you ever have children, tell them they must always be drunk. Drunk on love, drunk on poetry, drunk on wine, it doesn't matter. This world is too goddamn painful to waste a second of your existence sober.

Benjamin Hale

#16. Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.

John Denver

#17. Sometimes you have to decide between doing what you love and being loveable, and the decision is always painful.

Laurie Penny

#18. No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

Sister Souljah

#19. The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Jodi Picoult

#20. No matter; God wants Man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preserve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.

Alexandre Dumas