Love & Heartache

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one - neglect.
--James Bryden

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept treasured.
--Author Unknown

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
--Arthur Helps

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment,
Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
--Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
--Mother Theresa

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The courses of true love never did run smooth
--William Shakespeare

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
--French Proverb

Pains of love be sweeter far Than any other pleasures are.
--John Dryden

It is better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

Two things you should NEVER say to the one you love: "I love you, but..." and "If you loved me, you would..." Should you really qualify love with conditions?
--Author Unknown

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
--Francis Bacon

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
--Washington Irving

You can't force someone to love you; all you can do is become someone who can be loved; the rest is up the them.
--Author Unknown

Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.
--Author Unknown

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching, afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is... it never fades away
--Susan Polis Schutz

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
--Philip James Bailey

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning;
Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
--Robert Burns

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!
--Joseph Addison

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled
it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.
--John Gray

Because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
--Author Unknown

Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand.
--Leo Buscaglia

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
--Helen Keller

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love.
--Charlie Brown

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
--J. R. R. Tolkien (Fellowship of the Ring)