Cyril Connolly Quotes

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

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

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

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

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

It's always uneven, love; it's unbalanced and it's obviously even worse when it comes to someone wanting to part from someone who isn't willing to. It's often feeling hurt that you've never felt before and you want somebody else to feel that pain and also not wanting to let go, because when you let go you've got to start living your life again and it consumes people.

When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain around with me and my ribs actually start to ache. That's when I sit down and write.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra