40 Dark Love Quotes That Transcend The Ordinary
Welcome to our curated collection of ‘Dark Love Quotes’!
Love, just like life, can be really complicated. We often talk about the good parts of love, like those exciting feelings, the sparks between two people, and the grand romantic gestures. But, for many of us, love also has a darker side. It can involve troubled relationships, heartbreaks, and tough reality checks that can really hurt us.
As you read these quotes, you might feel a strong connection to some of them, and they may tug at your heartstrings. Remember, though, that these tough times can actually teach us a lot about love and help us grow as individuals.
So, let’s delve into these quotes about love’s darker aspects, and come out the other side stronger and maybe a little wiser.
#1
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood
#2
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
#3
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, The Uses of Sorrow
#4
“It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks
#5
“He was her dark fairytale and she was his twisted fantasy. Together they made magic.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
#6
“I don’t need you to light up my world, just sit with me in the dark.”
― Unknown
#7
“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
#8
“No love is fully requited. No love is equal. No love is fair. There is always one side that loves more. And you better not be that side—because it suffers.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief
#9
“We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn’t give a single f―k.”
― Julie Johnson, Erasing Faith
#10
“You like him because he’s a lost boy. Believe me, I’ve seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
#11
“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
#12
“Don’t ever try to get inside my head. It’s too dark for you.”
― Unknown
#13
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
#14
“There are plenty of ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it.”
— Leo Christopher
#15
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
#16
“There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
#16
“Hate will keep you alive where love fails.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
#17
“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
#18
“You will always fall in love, and it will always s be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
#19
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
#20
“I love her, more than anyone should love anything. The kind of love that either fills you up or eats away at you. I love her at my own risk. I love her… dangerously. ”
― Karina Halle, And With Madness Comes the Ligh
#21
“Love is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies
#22
“Love is a knife that cuts out your heart piece by piece, feeding it to the boy you love.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Dirty English
#23
“When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
#24
“It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star
#25
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
#26
“Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
#27
“You know that place between nightmares and dreams? The place where tomorrows never come and yesterdays don’t hurt anymore? The place where your heart beats in sync with mine? The place where time doesn’t exist, and it’s easy to breathe? I want to live there with you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes
#28
“I’m going to hell. I’m pretty sure she’d drag me there herself.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57
#29
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
#30
“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”
― Nikita Gill
#31
“Light is easy to love. Show me your darkness.”
― R.Queen, Darkchylde
#32
“That’s what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Last to Die
#33
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”
― Stephen King, The Body
#34
“Loving him is a sin; of that I’m fully aware. But a sinner I am.”
― Bella Jewel, Number Thirteen
#35
“There’s a certain madness that comes from wanting something you can’t have. It can lead to violence, if left unchecked. Better to possess the object of your desires in pieces than to see it in the hands of someone else.”
― Nenia Campbell, Rent Girl
#36
“When love is bloody like that, it’s hard to remember what love really is.”
― Megan D. Martin, The Filthy Series
#37
“When love is bloody like that, it’s hard to remember what love really is”
-Megan D. Martin
#38
“Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.“
-Gene Fowler
#39
“There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love.”
–Michael Xavier
#40
“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.“
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In the journey of love, we often find moments that bring tears to our eyes and sadness to our hearts. But remember, it’s okay to feel sad sometimes. These sad love quotes show us that even in tough times, we are not alone. Love can be a rollercoaster, with ups and downs, but it’s these emotions that make us human and show us the depth of our feelings.
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