Love Hurts/Quotes

""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. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.""

- Rose Walker

"Angelica: After all, I'm playing the most dangerous game of all! Chuckie: Musical Chairs? Angelica: No, dummy! Love!"

- Rugrats, Angelica's in Love

"''Love is not some victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"

- Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

"It's not hard to dream you'll always be my Konstantine My Konstantine They'll never hurt you like I do..."

- Something Corporate, Konstantine

"Through the woods a girl came sadly something broken in her chest She had dared to love another Alas, no better than the rest Up my path a girl came gladly Something opened up my doors I longed to stop her bleeding heart So I drew her to my shores Those you trust will hurt you badly something now I'm sure you'll see ''So drown your tears in me, my dear As you drown my dear, in me..."

- Aetulia, Brutal Legend

"Love breaks your heart. Love takes no less than everything. ''Love makes it hard, And it fades away so easily."

- Vanessa Williams, Love Is

"Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."

- Cersei Lannister, A Clash of Kings

"I wonder on what principle some people are given beautiful Queens to marry and others are given nobody or worse than nobody."

- Alan Quartermain

"We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

- Maester Aemon, A Game of Thrones

"It's gilt-edged, glamorous and sleek by design You know it's jealous by nature, false and unkind ''It's hard and restrained and it's totally cool It touches and teases while you stumble in the debris."

- Eurythmics, Love is a Stranger

""This is love. When someone drags you from the wreckage when you have given in, ready to just lie there and die. This is love. When someone, no matter what the cost, shows you there is hope, a choice, that you can put down your gun. This is love. Love hurts.""

- Max Payne 2

""You couldn't convince him, could you? Kitamura doesn't see how much emotion you're hiding. He couldn't tell just how truly nice you are, deep down. And he doesn't have a clue how easily your heart can be crushed. Not one tiny iota of a clue. Now, I bet you're going to turn away... Hiding your emotions so that Kitamura can't see. You'll stagger away. Sobbing so quietly that no one can hear. You'll look for a place where nobody can see you. Only then will you finally let the tears fall.""

- Ryuji's thoughts, after Taiga's confession to Yuusaku, Toradora! (manga)

""Ahaha... Is this what it feels like...to get stabbed in the chest? I should write a poem about this...""

- Sayori to the main character, Doki Doki Literature Club!