Broken Heart famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
-- Abigail Adams -
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
-- Abraham Cahan -
I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.
-- Alain Chartier -
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
-- Albert Camus -
No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.
-- Alethea Kontis -
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
-- Amy Winehouse -
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
-- Andrea Gibson -
A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
-- Andrea Gibson -
This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.
-- Andres Lokko -
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia -
When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.
-- Ashlee Simpson -
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
-- Bess Myerson -
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
-- Bette Midler -
My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.
-- Bo Sanchez -
She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.
-- Brad Meltzer -
Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
-- Brian Perkins -
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
-- Bruce Lee -
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
-- Buffalo Bill -
The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
-- Caroline Myss -
I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.
-- Cassandra Clare -
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.
-- Charles Baxter -
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
-- Charles Simeon -
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
-- Chief Joseph -
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.
-- Christer Kihlman -
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
-- Christopher Columbus -
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
-- Christopher Morley -
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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 -
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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 -
True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
-- Dan Morgenstern -
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 -
I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.
-- David Justice -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.
-- Doreen Virtue -
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
-- Dorothy Parker -
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
-- Drew Barrymore -
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 -
You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.
-- Ellen Pompeo -
Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.
-- Ellen Pompeo -
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 -
It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
-- Eric Kripke -
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 -
You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
-- Fannie Flagg -
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
-- Faraaz Kazi -
Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.
-- Francine Pascal -
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
-- Francoise Sagan -
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 -
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 -
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
-- Gene Tierney -
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 -
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 -
"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 -
It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?
-- George Michael -
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 -
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 -
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
-- Gilbert Parker -
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 -
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
-- Giotto di Bondone -
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 -
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 -
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 -
What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I don't think I can breathe now with you gone.
-- Heather Nova -
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
-- Helene Cixous -
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
-- Henry Adams -
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
-- Homer -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
-- James M. Barrie -
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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 -
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 -
I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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 -
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 -
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
... 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
