
Love is the pain of pleasure," I forced between sniveling sobs, "and pain is the pleasure of love. —
Courtney Lane

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. —
Veronica Roth

Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair. —
Mie Hansson

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again —
Alfred Lord Tennyson

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain! —
Jane Goodall

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. —
Orson Scott Card

When you are deeply in love,. even the smallest thing can hurt u like hell and break u into pieces ... —
BHARAT SHARMA

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. —
Anthony Liccione

When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all. —
Cherie Hill

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain. —
Lisa Bonet

'You love her without willing it or wanting it, and that is the most exquisite pain of all.' —
Vicki Pettersson

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. —
Jerome K. Jerome

Well: Love and Pain
Be kinfolks twain;
Yet would, Oh would I could Love again. —
Sidney Lanier

She was his only escape, And she was his only prison. —
Akshay Vasu

Kat stood immobile and watched with pain, a kiss of passion, a kiss of desire; a kiss that could never be hers. —
Kiki Archer

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing 'Sleep sweet sleep'. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack —
Kim Cormack

If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it? —
Leah Raeder

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love
it's less shiny than solid and simple. —
Deb Caletti

I give her sadness and the gift of pain,
a new moon madness and a love of rain. —
Dorothy Parker

I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past. —
Kellyn Roth

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful. —
Mehek Bassi

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms. —
James Baldwin

There was enough ice.So I thought. For my drink.When I used it all,I cut her heart out and used it instead.I never ran out of ice that night. —
Mrinaal

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell —
Richard Barnfield

We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen ... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see. —
Nadege Richards

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain. —
Nicholas Sparks

If a man's kiss burns like fire, his love will be true, but if his kiss burns like ice...his love will bring pain and ruin. —
Miriam Minger

No matter how much you love someone, time heals your pain and your death wish. —
Parul Wadhwa

Beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears ... —
John Geddes

Call me later, you'd said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard. —
Daniel Handler

You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds. —
Cat Alonso

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. —
Rufus Wainwright

America smiled at me and wiped my face. "You are such a pain in the ass, Abby. God, I love you! —
Jamie McGuire

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. —
Andrea Dworkin

Oh world, hear this, the streams of love ends in the salty ocean! My Lord, I wish to rise from this salt! —
Preeth Nambiar

Words don't get written from a heart that's never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths - and they were my only release. —
Kandi Steiner

The match I struck shall not run dead
You're my first inhale, my last cigarette. —
Mie Hansson

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. —
Alexandra Cruz

I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again. —
Garth Stein

Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains? —
Jay Woodman

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere. —
Rose Gordon

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain. —
Jennifer Grey

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart. —
Ben Harper

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. —
Sara Teasdale

Love cannot pain, desire can. —
Nilesh Rathod

That's what sacrifice is - beauty and tragedy. It's pain and suffering for something or someone you love. And —
M. Leighton

For your every tear, know that I'll always be here. To bare one pain we both will share, know I'll never disappear. —
Anthony Liccione

Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.
We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. —
Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys. —
Jenim Dibie

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

Feel compassionate to everyone because everyone is your either known or not yet known friend and everyone has pain and sufferings. —
Debasish Mridha

The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe. —
E.M. Benton

Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. —
Ray Bradbury

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering. —
Terry Tempest Williams

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away. —
Ewan McGregor

Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever. —
Khadija Rupa

For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. —
Joey Tolbert

Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens —
Renae A. Sauter

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts. —
Michael Morpurgo

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. —
Daniel Handler

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery. —
Nikos Kazantzakis

The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone. —
Paul Hoffman

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain. —
Tove Lo

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain. —
Nora Roberts

Ignoring the pain is more desirable than confronting it. And that's survival one-oh-one. —
Siobhan Davis

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat. —
Jodi Picoult

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. —
Edna O'Brien

She'd conjured love in the heart of a man whose soul had been frozen for years, anesthetized by too much pain and guilt to bear. —
Tammara Webber

...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride. —
Bess Streeter Aldrich

Respect the wounds which you gave like that
Keep them in Heart for forever and never treated —
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. —
Italo Svevo

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing. —
Leigh Allison Wilson

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is? —
Veronica Roth