C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 13, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 71
“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
1950-07-17 http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstchapters/story/0,6761,222716,00.html <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”
Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer
Source: Summer by the Sea
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Unknown Book 7074565
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
