Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Great loves too must be endured.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

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.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've broken up and we're no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that.

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

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Absence - that common cure of love.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.