The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.

When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize your falling out of love.

You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.

It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces

replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

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

Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.

He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.

People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good […]. They love each other because it’s easy. Or because they’re used to it. Or because they’ve given up. Or because they’re scared.

“I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.

Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!