Madeleine L'Engle 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.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

There's the idea that love is supposed to hurt, but it really shouldn't hurt.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

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.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

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.

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

There's no love without pain.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

There is no love without suffering.