Lauren DeStefano Quotes

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

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

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

In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

There is no love without suffering.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

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

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

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

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.

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

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.