Elif Safak Quotes

Every love story is a potential grief story.

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

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

There is no love without suffering.

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.

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

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

Despair is part of love.

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

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

There's no love without pain.

Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

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

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

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.