Top 20 Love Hurts Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

— Rumi

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2. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

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3. “A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”

— Taylor Swift

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4. “Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.”

— Mother Teresa

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5. “You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”

— Napoleon Hill

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6. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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7. “If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”

— Pablo Neruda

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8. “To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed.”

— Cassandra Clare

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9. “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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10. “Love breaks my bones and I laugh.”

— Charles Bukowski

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11. “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

— George R.R. Martin

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12. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Broken Heart Quotes

13. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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14. “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

— Cassandra Clare

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15. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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16. “Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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17. “Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.”

— Colleen Hoover

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18. “I’ve fallen for your eyes but they don’t know me yet.”

— Ed Sheeran

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19. “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.”

— Leonard Cohen

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20. “I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore.”

— John Lennon

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21. “If they wanted to, they would.”

— QuoteFancy Wallpaper

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