Heartbroken quotes
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The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
-- Alan Moore -
The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.
-- Alexa Chung -
Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
-- Ann Landers -
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I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.
-- Anthony Hamilton -
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
-- Asghar Farhadi -
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
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I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.
-- Boy George -
Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
-- Bridget Moynahan -
I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.
-- Carole Landis -
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
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They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
-- Christina Perri -
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
-- Christopher Morley -
If you are sad, If you are heartbroken , make yourself up , dress up , add more lipstick and attack . Men hate women who weep.
-- Coco Chanel -
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If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
-- David Adams Richards -
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'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care
-- Deborah Cox -
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.
-- Dennis Brown -
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If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.
-- Dennis Quaid -
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
-- Dylan Thomas -
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
-- Edward Norton -
I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.
-- Ellen Pompeo -
I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. 
  I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’
-- FKA twigs -
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
-- Florence Welch -
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.
-- Frank Iero -
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
-- Frederick Douglass -
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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.†“Oh?†“Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.
-- Gail Carriger -
I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman.
-- Gal Gadot -
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
-- Garth Brooks -
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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 -
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.
-- Ginette Paris -
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
-- Gregory David Roberts -
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
-- Hannah More -
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I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.
-- Heidi Klum -
There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.
-- James Corden -
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
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He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
-- Jeffrey McDaniel -
There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
-- Jennifer Donnelly -
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
-- Jennifer Garner -
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The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken
-- Jimmy Greaves -
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 -
When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
-- Jodi Thomas -
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
-- John Jay Chapman -
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Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
-- John Steinbeck -
God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.
-- Judith McNaught -
When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.
-- Kazuo Ishiguro -
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 -
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.
-- Lady Gaga -
Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.
-- Laura Kasischke -
You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.
-- Lauren Barnholdt -
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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
-- Lewis B. Smedes -
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry -
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.
-- Mariah Carey -
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Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.
-- Michelle Rowen -
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
-- Mineko Iwasaki -
This loss has left me truly heartbroken. Robin Williams was one of the brightest, most loving & wonderful people I've ever been blessed to know. I'll miss him more than I can ever express in words.
-- Monica Potter -
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
-- Myrtle Reed -
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The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
-- Nicole Kidman -
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
-- Norman Cousins -
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
-- Phil McGraw -
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
-- Rita Rudner -
Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people
-- Rumi -
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.
-- Sandra Bullock -
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
-- Sara Teasdale -
I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.
-- Shia LaBeouf -
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.
-- Swoosie Kurtz -
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
-- Sydney J. Harris -
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through--that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
-- Tabitha Suzuma -
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
-- Tammara Webber -
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I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family - especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world.
-- Teresa Giudice -
I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.
-- Tim McGraw -
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.
-- Tom Brokaw -
I don't want to name names because I don't want to draw too many direct comparisons but the history of Fascism is populated by people who need to subjugate other people and elevate their status and power to a level which is supreme. Usually, any psychological study of those people will reveal a sort of lost, damaged child, who is somehow heartbroken and doesn't have any self-worth.
-- Tom Hiddleston -
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Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.
-- Tom Holt -
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
-- Truman Capote -
Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
-- Upamanyu Chatterjee -
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
-- Usher -
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
-- Vittorio Alfieri -
I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.
-- Wes Anderson -
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
-- Charlotte Erickson -
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
-- E. A. Bucchianeri -
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Things may not go to plan, but the unexpected throws up experiences and opportunities you had never dreamed of. I didn't get into Oxford the first time. I was absolutely heartbroken. Instead of going anywhere else I took a year out and reapplied. I wish I'd had some kind of framework for that year out, instead I worked in a Virgin Megastore. But looking back it taught me a lot, and meant my university experience was different, not worse. In the end, your grades aren't as important as the people you meet, and you can meet them anywhere.
-- John Robins -
If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can hold onto them is a desire. Writers and artists are trying to record these things they can no longer have. We're a heartbroken lot. Taking pictures is a brave act in which you try to explain and remember a thing you can't have anymore.
-- Laurel Nakadate -
Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.
-- Miranda Kenneally -
I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.
-- Sue Augustine -
