100+ Broken Heart Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

topic: Broken Heart, Boys, Glasses, Broken Promises, Purchasing

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Life, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Water Of Life, Relieved

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Herpes, Infectious Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

- Claire Danes

topic: Broken Heart, Moving, Earthquakes, Glaciers

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Dawn, My Heart Is Broken, Breaking My Heart

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Broken Heart, Wall, Done

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

- Dan Morgenstern

topic: Broken Heart, Suffering, Bars

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

- David Clement-Davies

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Letting Go, Life Is Wonderful

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

- David Justice

topic: Broken Heart, Running, Home, Home Run

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

- Diana Krall

topic: Broken Heart, Song, Creating

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

- Diane Warren

topic: Broken Heart, Song, Pain

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

- Diane Warren

source: "Diane Warren: 'I've never been in love'". Interview With Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

topic: Broken Heart, Imagination, Looks

If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Broken Heart, Healing, Heaven

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

You have to think with the heart.

- Douglas Sirk

topic: Broken Heart, Thinking, Heart Broke

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Love, Break Up, Broken Heart, Make You Cry, Love And Heartbreak

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

- Dylan Thomas

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Death

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Broken Heart, Death, Fall, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

- Ellen Pompeo

topic: Broken Heart, Love Is, Differences, Losing Love

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

- Ellen Pompeo

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Desire, Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Birthday, Broken Heart, Grief

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

- Eric Kripke

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Broken Heart, Falling In Love, Asking, Love Again, Falling In Love Again

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

- Ethel Person

source: "What it takes to love well and wisely" by Cathleen Medwick, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

topic: Broken Heart, People, Judging

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

- Fannie Flagg

source: Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.54, Random House

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heart

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

- Faraaz Kazi

source: FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

topic: Broken Heart, Grief, World, Love And Heartbreak, Break Your Heart

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

- Francine Pascal

source: Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

topic: Broken Heart, Dumb, Blind, Deaf And Dumb

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

- Francoise Sagan

topic: Relationship, Broken Heart, Cells, Heart Broke, Sad Breaking Heart

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

- Frank Frankfort Moore

source: Frank Frankfort Moore (1896). “The Jessamy Bride: By F. Frankfort Moore”

topic: Broken Heart, Love Is, Men

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

- Franklin P. Adams

source: Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

topic: Change, Broken Heart, Liars

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Men, Antichrist

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

- Gene Tierney

topic: Broken Heart, Cures, Feels

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Broken Heart, Jobs, Sometimes

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Nothing Matters, My Heart Is Broken

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

- George Edward Woodberry

source: George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

topic: Broken Heart, Morning, Years, Old Time, Future And Present

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

- George Michael

topic: Broken Heart, Kissing, Want

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

- Gerald Brenan

topic: Broken Heart, Two, People, Arrangements

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Broken Heart, Love Is, Views, Heart Broke, Being Broken

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Broken Heart, Cheating, Cancer, Through My Eyes, Wittiest

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

- Gilbert Parker

source: Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Broken Heart, Heart, Pride, Love And Broken Heart, Broken Heart Love

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

- Ginnifer Goodwin

source: "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.

topic: Broken Heart, Courage, Growing Up

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

- Giotto di Bondone

topic: Broken Heart, Stars, Wish

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

- Graham Nelson

topic: Broken Heart, Care, Fortnight, Follow Up

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

- Hannah Kent

source: Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

topic: Broken Heart, Cracks, Weight, Landslides

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

- Harry Crews

topic: Beautiful, Broken Heart, Hurt, Soul Healing, Inspirational Healing

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

- Hart Crane

source: 1930 The Bridge,'The Tunnel'.

topic: Broken Heart, Skating

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Broken Heart, Healing, People, Norwegian Wood, Norwegians

I don't think I can breathe now with you gone.

- Heather Nova

topic: Broken Heart, Thinking, Gone

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

- Helene Cixous

topic: Broken Heart, Way, Losing

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

- Henry Adams

topic: Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Matter

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Broken Heart, War, Practice, Head And Heart, Heart To Heart

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

- Homer

topic: Life, Success, Broken Heart

Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?

- J.R. Ward

topic: Broken Heart, Distance, Eye, Scrambled Eggs

Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.

- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

topic: Broken Heart, Winter, Sky, Your Absence

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Love, Romantic, Broken Heart, Love Grows, War Love

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Broken Heart, Careful What You Wish For, Heart To Heart

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Love, Happiness, Broken Heart, Love And Heartbreak, My Heart Is Broken

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Broken Heart, Sorrow, Literature

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

- Jane Green

topic: Broken Heart, Song, Morning

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

- Jane Rule

source: Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.14, Open Road Media

topic: Broken Heart, People, Choices, Broken Promises

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

- Janeane Garofalo

topic: Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).

- Jason Mraz

topic: Broken Heart, Thinking, Might

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Stars, Wiping Out

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

- Jean de La Fontaine

source: Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Breakup, I'm Sad, Mending A Broken Heart

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

- Jean Giraudoux

source: Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Heal A Broken Heart, Heart Breaking

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

- Jennifer Weiner

topic: Broken Heart, Love You, Secret, Subtext, I Still Love You

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Broken Heart, Hurt, Sick

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

- Jerry B. Jenkins

topic: Broken Heart, Broken Relationship, Heavy Heart

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

- Jessamyn West

source: Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

topic: Broken Heart, Forever, Bones, Broken Bone

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

- Jesse Tyler Ferguson

topic: Broken Heart, Heartache, Misery, Teardrop

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

- Joel Henry Hildebrand

topic: Broken Heart, Men, Giving, Poor Education, Being Broken

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

- John Lothrop Motley

source: John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.13

topic: Broken Heart, Country, Patches

...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

- John M. Geddes

topic: Broken Heart, Two, Stones

Marriage is a desperate thing.

- John Selden

topic: Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Hurrying, Bad Things Happen

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

- John Suckling

source: Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.65

topic: Broken Heart, Heart, Broken, You Hurt Me, Love And Heartbreak

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

- John Woolman

topic: Broken Heart, Desire, Helping

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Broken Heart, Closed Eyes, Wanted To Be Loved

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Broken Heart, Ambition, Knowing, White Horse

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

- Joichi Ito

topic: Broken Heart, Japan, Democracy

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Broken Heart, Food, Pie, Broken Promises

There's no me if there's no me and you.

- Joseph Arthur

source: Song: Ashes Everywhere, Album: Come To Where I'm From, 2000

topic: Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

- Julia Roberts

topic: Love, Happiness, Broken Heart, Inspiration Love, Free Love

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

- Julie Powell

topic: Broken Heart, Two, Together

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

- Katerina Graham

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Broken Heart, Song, Moving, Being Independent Woman

...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

- Katie MacAlister

topic: Broken Heart, Soul, Tears

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

- Katie MacAlister

topic: Broken Heart, Heart, My Heart, Lament

...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...

- Keith Urban

topic: Broken Heart, Alive, Lost

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

- Kelly Miller

source: Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

topic: Broken Heart, Paris, Germany, Belgium, Belgians

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.

- Kim Sowol

topic: Broken Heart, Letting You Go, Weary

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

- Klaus Kinski

source: "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

topic: Broken Heart, Running, Hurt, Hurt So Much, You Hurt Me

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.