“If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.”

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

“Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”

Kate Mosse book Sepulchre

“The purpose exceeds the pain.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer

“So young when the pain had begun
Now forever afraid of being loved.”

Demi Lovato (1992) American singer, songwriter, actress, and author

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

“Ah, sigh for us whose hearts unseeing
Point all their passionate love in vain,
And blinded in the joy of being,
Meet only when pain touches pain.”

George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter

“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne