Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

There's no love without pain.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

Love is a hell you cannot bear.

Love is nothing but a pain in the ass

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

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

Romantic love is painful.

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.