Bitter Love Quotes

• The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

  Maureen Duffy

  Love, Pain, Heart

  Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”

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• Love is a hole in the heart.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Heart, Holes

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• Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

  Pablo Neruda

  Passion, Soul, Sorrow

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• The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational Love, Faces, Lovers

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• It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loneliness, Bereavement, Bitter

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• If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Witty, Inspirational Love, Winning

  "The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow".

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