Cheryl Strayed Quotes

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

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.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

Love hurts more than hate.

Pain is love.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

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

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

Had God created Love to make pain feel even worse?

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.

Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me