103 Hurt From Love Quotes For Women

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Below are 103 hurt from love quotes every woman should read at least once.

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Hurt From Love Quotes

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1: “Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned.” – William Butler Yeats

2: “The worst feeling is knowing you’ve done everything to show someone you love them, yet they still choose someone else.” – Bernajoy Vaal

3: “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

4: “Every night, I lay awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrives.” – Anmol Rawat

5: “Some people will leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” – Faraaz Kazi

6: “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper

7: “Love is knowing that your feet carry you to a painful place, and still go anyway.” – Mitta Xinindlu

8: “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde

9: “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse

10: “Losing someone hurts, but if you truly love them, you should let them go.” – Unknown

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

— Samuel Butler

12: “You put me through so much hell, and I was blind enough to call it love.” – Unknown

13: “There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.” – Laurell K. Hamilton

14: “Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley

15: “The worst feeling is falling for someone and knowing they won’t be there to catch you.” – Unknown

16: “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling to stop the tears from falling.” – Unknown

17: “I wore your promise on my finger for one year. I’ll wear your name on my heart till I die.” – Unknown

18: “You can’t erase someone who was once your everything.” – Unknown

19: “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” – Aman Jassal

20: “If we must part forever, give me but one kind word to think upon.” – Thomas Otway

21: “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky

22: “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran

23: “It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.” – Susan Sontag

24: “Love doesn’t hurt. Expectations do.” – Pushkaraj Shirke

25: “I tried to stay by your side, but you pushed me away instead.” – Unknown

26: “Everybody can see a laughing face, but nobody can see a broken heart.” – Unknown

27: “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

28: “When love is real, it doesn’t lie, cheat, pretend, hurt you, or make you feel unwanted. It’s supposed to be a cure to all your worries.” – Unknown

29: “It’s not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow.” – Unknown

30: “Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as temporary happiness.” – Unknown

31: “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi

32: “Standing alone is better than standing with people who hurt you.” – Unknown

33: “Don’t be afraid to tell the truth. It’s better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy with lies.” – Unknown

34: “I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away. It would have saved me so much hurt.” – Unknown

35: “Sometimes, the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton J. Sheen

36: “You promised you wouldn’t hurt me, but you did. You promised you would stay, but you left.” – Unknown

37: “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner

38: “Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again; skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.” – Unknown

39: “You left, and the world didn’t crumble. I owe the universe a dollar.” – Rudy Francisco

40: “Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.” – Unknown

41: “If they keep hurting you, love them and stay or love yourself and leave.” – Unknown

42: “It’s painful to love someone you can never have, but it’s more painful when they made you believe you had a chance.” – Unknown

43: “I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” – Faraaz Kazi

44: “I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.” — Mohsen El-Guindy

45: “The worst feeling is not being lonely. It’s when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you and you have to pretend you don’t mind at all.” — Nishan Panwar

46: “Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially, it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes off and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the… BURN!” — Syed Arshad

47: “Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night; building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.” — Laura Chouette

48: “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” — Terri Guillemets

49: “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” — Terri Guillemets

50: “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” — Carroll Bryant

51: “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream; whatever that dream might be.” — Pearl Buck

Men like you happen once. Women like me prefer to live our lives cautiously with your aftertaste, lessons, and splinters of a broken heart underneath our tongues.

— Ayushee Ghoshal

53: “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.” — Sonya Watson

54: “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?” — Shannon L. Alder

55: “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” — Stephen King

56: “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” — Mineko Iwasaki

57: “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?” — Rosa Parks

58: “Love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.” — Sonya Parker

59: “Tears are the silent language of a wounded heart.” — Voltaire

60: “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” — Pablo Neruda

61: “The hottest love has the coldest end.” — Socrates

62: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — A.A. Milne

63: “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray​

64: “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson​

65: “If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.” – Unknown​

66: “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” – Andrea Gibson

67: “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” – Anaïs Nin​

68: “The greatest tragedy of lost love is not the pain in losing someone, but the lingering ache that remains within us.” – John Green​

69: “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H.L. Mencken

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.

— Coco J. Ginger​

71: “The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” – Unknown​

72: “You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule.” – Cheryl Strayed​

73: “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton

74: “I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that love could end.” – Mona Simpson​

75: “Walking alone is not difficult, but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone, then coming back alone is what is difficult.” – Faraaz Kazi​

76: “Love is like a ghost, it can haunt you long after it’s gone.” – Unknown

77: “You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented, but then you read.” – James Baldwin​

78: “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Unknown​

79: “Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.” – Torquato Tasso

80: “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.” – Unknown

81: “You can’t change what’s gone, but you can change what’s next.” – Unknown

82: “Walking away doesn’t mean you didn’t care. It means you cared enough about yourself to leave.” – Unknown

83: “When it’s over, don’t look back. You’re not going that way.” – Unknown

84: “Let go of what hurts you. Hold onto what heals you.” – Unknown

85: “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe

86: “No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.” – Unknown

87: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami

88: “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley

89: “One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a breakup.” – Mandy Hale

90: “If he’s stupid enough to walk away; be smart enough to let him go.” – Unknown

91: “Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown

One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.

— Turcois Ominek

93: “The bravest thing you can do is to let go of what’s breaking you.” – Unknown

94: “Respect yourself enough to know you deserve the very best.” – Unknown

95: “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Drake

96: “If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door.” – Jacki Wells Wunderlin

97: “Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.” – Nicholas Sparks

98: “The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” – Mohadesa Najumi

99: “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E.M. Forster

100: “Do not cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

101: “Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.” – Paulo Coelho

102: “Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn’t respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss.” – Unknown

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

— Mark Twain