“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

— Anaïs Nin

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.”

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“I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much … unless you're family.”

Jack White (1975) American musician and record producer

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“I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man—but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division. So I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)

“I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Variant: .. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.
Source: Dead in the Family