Bitter Love Quotes:

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

- Maureen Duffy

source: Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”

topic: Love, Pain, Alive, Love Pain, Lovesickness

Love is a hole in the heart.

- Ben Hecht

topic: Love, Heart, Holes, Bitter Love

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

topic: Passion, Soul, Sorrow, Bitter Love, Crown Of Thorns

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

topic: Inspirational Love, Faces, Lovers, Unsolved Mysteries, Bitter Love

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

topic: Loneliness, Bereavement, Bitter, Bitter Love

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Winning, Doe, Plymouth, Wooing, Bitter Love