William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Pain is love.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

Love is a hard thing to turn your back on.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.