Mary Doria Russell Quotes

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

Love is loss combined with pain.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

There is no love without suffering.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

It was the saddest day of my life.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

Losing someone you love is tough.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Despair is part of love.

My best girl is dead.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.