“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.”
More from Nicholas Sparks on Love
“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
“It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”
“EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.”
“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
“You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.”
“If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
“For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.”
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”