Of course, the poet William Blake said it best: "It's easier to forgive an enemy than a friend."

Being hurt is inevitable where love is concerned.

The question that should be asked is whether that hurt was caused intentionally or not!

Well, I believe that everyone you date, or become involved with will make you cry. Not out of happiness.... but out of sadness or greif. Everyone you are close to hurts you. Regardless of what you want.

The whole problem (if it is a problem...I guess so, otherwise we wouldn't be discussing it) revolves around the question: Who (or) what can we safely place our love and trust in...so that we will be assured that we will not be hurt? Is there any human being that you know, who will not hurt you by his/her love, love so-called. Of course there are different forms of love. To put it succinctly, everything will fail you but the Divine. I don't mean to get preachy here, but I really believe that human love is not enough...because only if we repose our love in that which has no faults, no inebriety, no dualities of like/dislike, love/hate, and so on, will our love be returned by that entity, supreme person, god, call it what you will, and thus will we re-establish our eternal relationship with God, which has been disturbed or forgotten by us in the course of our life & lives. So, it is my understanding that those people who are searching for the answer to our question, are we always hurt by the one we put our love and trust in, will find that there are two responses to the problem of unrequited love. First, one may recoil and love no one and nothing, and go around pouting like a child who can't get what he wants, and thus decline to have relationship with even life itself, which just causes depression and mental illness; or, will that person love in the face of it all; in other words, can we continue loving, do we have any alternative than loving when we are the "victim" of the beloved's seeming offenses and distain for us? I hope that I may be able to continue loving in the face of one million reasons why not to! We are, after all, unrequited lovers here in this world, and the only real lover is God...

how do you know that you are in love? how do you know what love is? i think that love is bigger than anything we can describe or understand. love is unconditional! people throw the phrase 'i love you' round way to easy. people get wrapped up in the idea of love, i belive alot of people are 'in love' with the thought of being in love therefore it is bound to fall apart and someone get hurt. love is easy, you shouldnt have to think about it, the people who lovw you are the people that would still be there no matter what you are or who you decide to be unconditional love doesnt hurt!!

It doesn't matter how it happens, whether it be love or something else. Everyone will experience the sting of pain for something. Everyone has at one point said something they didn't mean and ended up hurting someone.

It hurts more when someone you love is mean to you...If someone you love says something out of line it hurts you more to hear them say it then to hear some normal person say it to you. Love only hurts cause you care more about the tiny things the people you love do to make you upset or angry. Love also hurts when you hurt the person you love. If you're the one saying horrible stuff to the person you love it hurts you too...So pretty much yeah....

yes all love ends up hurting you. even if not intentionally. someone dies, someone moves, people fight, love hurts always. coz those people u love or who love you know the most about u therefore when they hurt u...it cuts deep. love always hurts

No sweetheart. That is part of loving someone, but there's so much more to it than that. Truly loving someone, is getting hurt by them, but still caring about them enough to realize the real reasons they do what they do and continuing to help them and care for them the best that you can. In the end, love usually does hurt, but if it's true and the person really cares about you, the reward will way beyond make up for the pains.

You shouldn't linger on the bad. If you love someone you have plenty of good times and laugher to cover up any hurt they may cause you. Live life while you have life. Love while you can love. Smile like you mean it. If you live by those sayings, if someone you love hurts you, you'll make up. It's not such a big deal. People hurt other people everyday. If we didn't get over it, we wouldn't be here.

to know love one needs to know how to bear hurt... if one does not know hurt how does one know love... not everthing in life is going to be to ones liking... each needs to know the difference of feelings and emotions, deal with it, accept it.... love and hurt are partners in life cant have one with out the other... hurt can bring one closer as it can break one apart..... these are all life lessons... and hurt is part of the process of growing up.... as love is the process of learning and forgiving... if one does not know hurt... one will never know how to heal and understand hurt....any kind of hurt/pain......... if they themselves have never felt it themselves.........it is a requirement to survial hurt........ we all need it to become better people

If you stay to yourself and live in your on world and allow no one to enter you will never be hurt. You are all you have to deal with at the end of the day so why not deal with you and only you? when you feel that you have enough self-esteem and confidence to deal with the rest of the world then proceed. Never count on a man or another to give you your confidence because he/she can also take it away.

If that's what it takes to make you appreciate love. Otherwise I suppose Not Always. But sometimes it is true, you must get hurt by the one you love to appreciate them.

To be honest, this question really made me think.

it may seem like everyone will hurt you but i think its really you hurting yourself, i mean think about it its you that gets attached its you that admires them its your feelings your feelings are something u cant contol never mind anyone else you give them the power to make or break you so in a way you can blame them if u get hurt but you also have to think why you thought of them in that way to start with.

To love another, is to open oneself to being wounded. To not love any, is to leave yourself un-opened and this is a slow suffocating death.

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Studies do concur; those who cannot love are statistically less healthy and die sooner. Either way you go, you do get hurt. Either by your own lonely hands or by the hands of the loved. Personally, I choose to take a chance on love, wouldn't you?

You are just more sensitive to what they do because you have higher expectations for them than the people you dont love.

I have been in love with the same guy for about 4 years now. We are dating. And sure has hurt me but never majorly. And not everyone you love and everyone that loves you will hurt you. Some might, some defintly will, and some never will. I know some people who have never hurt me and never could.