If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Les blessures du plus profond amour suffisent à faire une assez belle haine - La Condition Humaine

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

It is very important for us
to realize that love, to be true,
has to hurt. I must be willing to
give whatever it takes not to harm
other people and, in fact, to do
good to them. This requires that
I be willing to give until it hurts.
Otherwise there is no true love
in me and I bring injustice,
not peace, to those around me.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings