Love Is Not Painful Quotes

#1. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved. - Author: Morris Graves

#2. To have someone know you so thoroughly and not want you. Is there anything more painful? - Author: Michelle Tea

#3. But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#4. If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff. - Author: Tom Petty

#5. For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. - Author: Marcel Proust

#6. Camus said 'Love Lasts or Love Burns'. I want a Lasting Burn-just nothing requiring a series of painful treatments by a rubber-gloved Doctor - Author: Josh Stern

#7. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#8. At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#9. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it. - Author: Chelsey Philpot

#10. I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. - Author: Ian Somerhalder

#11. The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sort
of silence where the absence is painful, when there's so much to
say, but nothing is said. - Author: Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#12. Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death! - Author: Ram Dass

#13. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is. - Author: Rae Carson

#14. I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#15. I realise that love isn't painful. It's the not having love that hurts. The rejection. The betrayal. The loneliness. They hurt. Love doesn't. The - Author: Sue Fortin

#16. Relationships are painful when they are not working and so joyful when they are. - Author: Pamela Cummins

#17. Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry! - Author: Rick Riordan

#18. Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation. - Author: Albert Camus

#19. He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish, he had never known before. - Author: W. Somerset Maugham

#20. Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else. - Author: Julia Quinn

#21. After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks. - Author: Claire Dyer

#22. The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed to one in detail by the woman whom one adores is without doubt the acme of suffering. - Author: Stendhal

#23. Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful. - Author: Lauren Dane

#24. As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye. - Author: Taylor Swift

#25. Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#26. It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition. - Author: Julian Barnes

#27. Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#28. A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips. - Author: Frank Herbert

#29. I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies. - Author: Zoe Kazan

#30. When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#31. And said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me ... I never got it.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace - Author: Rebecca Ashe

#32. Love is painful, pointless and overrated. - Author: L.J.Smith

#33. I maybe such a pain in the ass,
But in a good way.
I give you pleasure at the same time! - Author: Arzum Uzun

#34. Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived. - Author: Anmol Rawat

#35. But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over. - Author: Carol Cassella

#36. 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. - Author: Alexandre Dumas

#37. 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. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#38. Please understand. Please forgive me.
I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.
Don't hate me.
I still love you. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#39. We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. - Author: Richard Bach

#40. This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
It was a goodbye kiss. - Author: Penelope Ward

#41. 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. - Author: Sister Souljah

#42. So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point. - Author: Chris Martin

#43. The depth of my love for him, of my need for him poured over me, both painful and sweet, both comforting and frightening. If anything happened to him, I didn't know how I would keep going. - Author: Lisa Wingate

#44. He should talk to her - not on the phone where so much could be hidden, but face to face. He wanted to see her. Look into her eyes, no matter how painful, and find the truth. - Author: Jennifer Beckstrand

#45. It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love. - Author: Anne Bronte

#46. Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives. - Author: Kate Mosse

#47. trust was as painful as love - Author: Nicole Williams

#48. Bruises that are ugly
And painful
And more than skin deep - Author: Kim Holden

#49. To dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender
ourselves to suffering - Author: Therese De Lisieux

#50. Sometimes you have to decide between doing what you love and being loveable, and the decision is always painful. - Author: Laurie Penny

#51. Love is messy, painful and emotionally draining. It hardly seems worth it. - Author: Alice Clayton

#52. Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn't truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love. - Author: Lynsey Addario

#53. It's the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love - Author: Taylor Swift

#54. With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love." - Swami Vivekananda - Author: Bhanu Prakash Singh

#55. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#56. If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life. - Author: J.C. Ryle

#57. 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. - Author: John Denver

#58. 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. - Author: Benjamin Hale

#59. I choose you over everyone."
Cath took a painful breath and reached up with one hand to touch his chin. "I love you," she said. "Levi."
Levi's face broke open just before he kissed her.
He pulled away again a few seconds later ...
"Say it again. - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#60. Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there's never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out. - Author: J.C. Reed

#61. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. - Author: Aristotle.

#62. I've been left for someone ... all those things ... It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes. - Author: George Clooney

#63. She knew all about love - that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey. - Author: Mary Hart Perry

#64. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are. - Author: V.C. Andrews

#65. 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. - Author: Melanie Iglesias

#66. Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had. - Author: Sapan Saxena

#67. I ... " Her face twists into a painful expression. I open my mouth to tell her that it's okay, that I don't even need to hear it when she blurts it out. "I love you, Lex Lyndon. Gah!" Olivia lifts her hands up and wipes at her tongue like it's been contaminated. "That was so gross. - Author: C.M. Stunich

#68. Life isn't love, destiny, rainbows, and butterflies. Life is shit. It's painful and hard. It's surviving when you want to give up." "No, - Author: Ellie Wade

#69. The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful. - Author: Joel Dicker

#70. Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back. - Author: Kathryn Perez

#71. My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within this iron cage for a reason. Breathe on it wrong and I will die ... Just go now. I would rather let you see my face, than my heart.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace - Author: Rebecca Ashe

#72. I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be. - Author: Nikki Rowe

#73. Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back? - Author: Monica Denise Brown

#74. Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. - Author: Amy Sedaris

#75. I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well. - Author: Zoe Kazan

#76. To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows! - Author: Ivan Turgenev

#77. Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#78. Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. - Author: Alice Walker

#79. The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering- - Author: Jane Austen

#80. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. - Author: Subbi P. Mathur

#81. But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, - Author: David Ross

#82. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy. - Author: John Piper

#83. 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. - Author: David W. Earle

#84. Embracing what is We're conditioned to believe that painful feelings are "bad" and that pleasurable ones are "good." It's often easier - though not healthier - for us to avoid grief and sorrow, while only embracing sensations like happiness, confidence, and love. - Author: Sharon Salzberg

#85. I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful. - Author: Ali Larter

#86. Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, ... - Author: Betty Eadie

#87. He is forbidden to love as a man. Passion must find its own way out. Claws tear the heart. Love is the most merciless of gods. Something so powerful will not be stopped, only turned, often to violence. I can almost understand this man. - Author: Rebecca Ashe

#88. God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices. - Author: Marvin J. Ashton