Hard Love Quotes

“I trust the red sun setting,

the leafless November trees.

On Monday morning I look foward

fearlessly to Friday’s eve.

But humans are not as reliable

as nature, as trees.

I wonder if you’ll come back;

I trust only that you leave.”
― Ellen Wittlinger, Hard Love

“Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature’s elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Death Before Daylight

“If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it.”
― Adhish Mazumder

“You make the decision to love everyday, whether you feel the magic or not. It's the decision that creates perseverance, not the feeling of love in itself, because sometimes, butterflies do not suffice”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“We were burning, in which I thought meant desire, but the fire left more than scabs.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I never fell in love with you. I fell in love with the idea of us together.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“it’s cold
from the tar
of his heart
yet i still breathe
as this falls apart”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The house was burning. The kitchen was on fire. All I smelled were the coffee beans from Tuesday morning. You stand between the thought of staying and leaving because toxicity is a dangerous electricity.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“It was your voice in the eve and the wind against me. The way your words used to caress, how we’d disagree. I reminisce in toxicity because it feels good to feel a dark electricity.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I was pacing in your kitchen. Thinking of ways I’d miss you. How the summer brings light. The night brings dark. Our minds intertwining and becoming nothing but just you and I in a moment with nothing else.

People need truth and the truth is, I didn’t need you. I wanted you. You wanted me, I assume. This is why we worked. We didn’t need each other. We didn’t fill a void in each other. We flowed in time and when our time expired, it was over. You were floating, I was flowing. I was searching and in a bittersweet reality, I was going. Experiences mean more than what we give them. I love and I lose and it’s never a loss because experiences don’t bring losses, they give strength. We learn, we love, and we move on.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“His voice was the saddest song I’ve ever heard until I saw him at 3 am begging to see me.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I was nineteen. We were in your library, covered in sheets, seeking for something we both couldn’t have and seemingly, that’s where our love stemmed from. We make motions in men. I made moments in you. Moments I couldn’t have. Things which couldn’t make sense. I still hear the song in the background. The tiles of your bathroom. This wasn’t love. This was lust.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I loved myself and since I loved me, I loved him because I realized he was good for me. A type of self worth, a type of narcissistic love.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Depth is remembering how your touch feels five years later.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“It takes two to tango and one to let go.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The last words were good night because I couldn’t fathom goodbye. We pretend in certain situations to guard ourselves from breaking.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Seeking divine enchantment is like seeking love in a laundry room. We’re spinning but nothing makes sense.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I still remember your hands on my thighs, the breeze in my ear, and the sullen sadness in the depth of your voice.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“You wallow in abusive relationships because that’s all you have in that moment. You need something darker to bring you to truth.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Toxicity is my fuel. Break me and you can take me.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“He steals your knees, not because he needs you, but because he feeds off of your fears.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“It’s hard to leave toxic relationships because you become dependent on the action of how they treat you. You depend on manipulation because the emotionally abused no longer comprehend self worth. You understand it, but your mind tells you otherwise and become afraid to leave the situation. You don’t think you’re worthy which makes you question leaving it.”
― Dominic Riccitello