Guy de Maupassant Quotes

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

I gave you the best of me.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

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

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Pain is love.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

There is no love without loss. It’s a package deal.

In cinema, the hero is not the one who sacrifices their body always, but the person who sacrifices their heart. They allow their heart to break so everyone else can stay intact.

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.