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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The purpose exceeds the pain.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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