love's challenges Quotes

How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.

Our love is our burden.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.