Quotes That Describe the Hardships of Love

Love can be a great life teacher. But, sometimes, it doesn't feel like love at all. It hurts and we are wondering how can such a beautiful emotion hurt so much when the ones we hold so dear are in question. People get in fights all the time because misunderstandings in relationships are frequent but normal. There are so many love is hard quotes that can make us feel better if we had a fight with a partner, or to explain difficulties in relationships. Anyway, whatever happens, it's best to talk it out and to be completely direct and honest. Every problem can be solved. In the text below 36 moving quotes that describe relationships in difficult times from which you can learn a lot are described.

Quotes About Partners and Quarrels

The constant bickering is present in many relationships. Therefore, relationships like that become toxic and bad for personal growth and overall happiness. But there are always reasons and ways to overcome it.

• "Love is a better teacher than duty." — Albert Einstein.

• "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." — Barbara De Angelis.

• "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." — Mother Teresa.

• "Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you." — Mike Murdock.

• "You call it madness, but I call it love." — Don Byas.

• "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." — Washington Irving.

• "The giving of love is an education in itself." — Eleanor Roosevelt.

• "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." — Marilyn Monroe.

• "We must love one another or die." — W. H. Auden.

• "Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while- nothing is perfect." —Tracy McMillan.

• "To love is to burn, to be on fire." — Jane Austen.

• "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." — James Baldwin.

• "The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." — Vincent van Gogh.

• "Perhaps you'll fail. Perhaps it will hurt. Perhaps you'll be depressed. But it will be worth it." — Maxime Lagacé.

• "Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person." — James Thurber.

• "We love because it's the only true adventure." — Nikki Giovanni.

Quotes About Overcoming Problems in a Relationship

When love hurts, you shouldn't be afraid. It doesn't mean the end of the whole world. After every misunderstanding, the relationship goes stronger and you end up loving each other even more if we know how to learn from our mistakes.

• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix.

• "Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly." — Sam Keen.

• "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi.

• "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil.

• "Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

• "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." — Charles Dickens.

• "Love must be as much a light as it is a flame." — Henry David Thoreau.

• "Love is the product of how you respond. Love is showing your partner they're safe, you'll catch them if they fall, and you'll drop everything if they need you. Love is unconditional. Love doesn't keep score." — Shane Parrish.

• "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love." — Sophocles.

• "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love." — Lao Tzu.

• "Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other." — Felix Adler.

• "Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." — Marge Piercy.

• "You make me want to be a better man." — Melvin Udall.

• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu.

• "Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do." — Rachel Wolchin.

• "Love must be learned and learned again and again. There is no end to it." — Katherine Anne Porter.

• "Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person." — Thich Nhat.

• "To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved." — George MacDonald.

• "A source of trouble is our unruly minds. We can counter that by developing a warm heart. We need to effect an inner transformation, to understand that love and affection are a real source of joy." — Dalai Lama.

• "We need not think alike to love alike." — David Ferenc.

• "Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces - and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper - love her, love her, love her!" — Charles Dickens.

• "In reality, in love, there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious." — Marcel Proust.

Summary

These quotes about hardships of love can open your eyes and make you realize how frequent the pain is in romantic relationships. We can't understand each other perfectly, but we can work on it and build a strong relationship. The only thing that it's important is to remember how much you love your partner. Without them, nothing would be the same. Let these quotes help you to remember this important thing.