A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

Quote by Abraham Cowley

Topics: Love Quotes, Pain Quotes

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell...

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell...

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a...

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a...

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The...

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The...

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

Life is an incurable Disease

Life is an incurable Disease

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt...

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt...

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Life is an incurable disease.

Life is an incurable disease.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for...

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for...

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another....

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another....

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...