{"quotes":[{"text":"Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["agony","blade","cutting","dark","every","heart","heartache","need","needs","pain","painful","painful-love","part","sharp","sharper","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","stab"],"id":29144,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Among my stillness was a pounding heart.","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["emotional","emotional-pain","emotions","heart","heartbeat","heartfelt","love","love-story","painful","painful-love","passion","passionate","romance","stillness","teenage-love","unrequited-love","young-adult-paranormal","young-adult-romance","young-love"],"id":118057,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"},{"text":"True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.","author":"John Carter Cash","tags":["love","painful-love","true-love"],"id":131239,"author_id":"John+Carter+Cash"},{"text":"Suffer you will, one way or another.","author":"Nilesh Rathod","tags":["divorce","pain","painful","painful-love","relationships","separation","suffering"],"id":177347,"author_id":"Nilesh+Rathod"},{"text":"We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["delusion","enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","pain","pain","painful","painful-love","painful-memories","soul","soul-searching"],"id":207771,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.","author":"Sapan Saxena","tags":["love-is-pain","love","painful-love","painful-past","sadness","tears"],"id":222702,"author_id":"Sapan+Saxena"},{"text":"Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.","author":"RSCruz","tags":["confussion","friendship","heartache","love","love-and-sayings","moving-on","pain","painful-love","painful-situation","regrets","separation","someone-special","somewhere","staying","staying-strong","togetherness","waiting"],"id":222955,"author_id":"RSCruz"},{"text":"My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within this iron cage for a reason. Breathe on it wrong and I will die... Just go now. I would rather let you see my face, than my heart.","author":"Rebecca Ashe","tags":["love","masque-of-the-swan","painful-love","unrequited-love","wounded-heart"],"id":225335,"author_id":"Rebecca+Ashe"},{"text":"In fact, she [Pamela Flitton] seemed to prefer 'older men' on the whole, possibly because of their potentiality for deeper suffering. Young men might superficially transcend their seniors in this respect, but they probably showed less endurance in sustaining that state, while, once pinioned, the middle-aged could be made to writhe almost indefinitely.","author":"Anthony Powell","tags":["painful-love","pamela-flitton","suffering"],"id":249633,"author_id":"Anthony+Powell"},{"text":"He started to estrange her... And they became strangers Who knew each other's heart, So broken as they drifted apart.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["apart-from-love","broken-hearted","broken-promises","confidentiality","drifting-apart","estranged-relationship","heart","heartache","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","hurt-feelings","hurting-heart","indiference","love","love-hurts","lovers-breakup","lovers-quarrels","lovers-sadness","painful-love","rejected","rejection","relationship","relationship","secrets","strangers-in-love","treason","trust-broken"],"id":277234,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}