Heartbreak quotes
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Never love that which you cannot keep.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
-- Anais Nin -
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
-- Aristotle -
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
-- Arthur Miller -
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
-- August Strindberg -
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
-- Bob Marley -
Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
-- Cassandra Clare -
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
-- Charlotte Bronte -
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If it hurts, it isn't love.
-- Chuck Spezzano -
Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.
-- Colleen Houck -
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
-- Elijah Wood -
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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
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No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
-- George Eliot -
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
-- George Eliot -
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.
-- Ginette Paris -
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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
-- Gregory David Roberts -
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow -
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
-- Heather Brewer -
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
-- J. G. Holland -
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet -
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
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Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
-- Joan Crawford -
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
-- Jodi Picoult -
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
-- Julie Andrews -
I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.
-- Kami Garcia -
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
-- L. Frank Baum -
Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.
-- Lauren Conrad -
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The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.
-- Lauren Conrad -
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry -
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
-- Malcolm X -
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
-- Marcel Proust -
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
-- Mark Twain -
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
-- Markus Zusak -
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One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.
-- Merle Shain -
When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
-- Mineko Iwasaki -
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
-- Moliere -
The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.
-- Mona Van Duyn -
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-- Mother Teresa -
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni -
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-- Norman Cousins -
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.
-- Norman Rush -
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
-- Pearl Bailey -
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside.
-- Rachel Vincent -
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-- Ray Stannard Baker -
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
-- Rumi -
I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay
-- Sara Evans -
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
-- Stephen King -
One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
-- Steven Dietz -
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
-- Sylvia Plath -
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There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
-- Tammara Webber -
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
-- Taylor Swift -
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
-- Thomas Moore -
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
-- Thornton Wilder -
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Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
-- Tom Cruise -
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
-- Torquato Tasso -
What's meant to be will always find a way.
-- Trisha Yearwood -
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
-- Truman Capote -
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You wondered how you'd make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you're looking for, is the one thing you can't see.
-- Vanessa L. Williams -
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
-- Walker Percy -
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-- Washington Irving -
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Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
-- William S. Burroughs -
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen -
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.
-- Yunus Emre -
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
-- E. A. Bucchianeri -
