Pat Benatar Quotes

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

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

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

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

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.

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

Pain is love.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Love hurts more than hate.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.