Broken Heart Love Quotes:

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

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

- Jennifer Aniston

source: "Oprah Magazine", 2004.

topic: Love, Pain, Capacity, Make You Cry, Love Pain

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Recovery

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

- Dennis Quaid

source: "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

topic: Love, Break Up, Breakup, Break Your Heart, Moving On After Breakup

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Mean, My Heart Hurts, My Heart Is Broken

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

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Quoted in "The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Stephen Palmer and Ved P. Varma, Chapter 6, p. 84, 1997.

topic: Dope, Feelings, Belief, Wronged, Insult To Injury

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Washington Irving

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Love And Heartbreak, Purifying

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

- Edmund Spenser

source: Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.440

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Love And Heartbreak, Love And Broken Heart

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

topic: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Breakup, Make Me Feel Better, Love And Broken Heart

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

- Richard Wilbur

source: Richard Wilbur (2006). “Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Positive, Break Up, Mending A Broken Heart, Inspirational Moving On

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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Knowing Love, Failed Relationship

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

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

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Love And Heartbreak, Love Heals

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Life, Depression, Love Pain, Memorable Harry Potter

The heart was made to be broken.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart, Irish Author, My Heart Is Broken

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Relationship, Smile, I Ll Miss You, Make You Cry

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

- Violeta Parra

topic: Broken Heart, Stars, Tears, Make You Cry, Love And Heartbreak

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

- Jim Henson

topic: Love, Healing, Heart, Love Heals, Love And Broken Heart

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Life, Positive, Broken Heart, Good Money, Inspirational Money Making

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Life, Broken Heart, Love And Heartbreak, Love And Broken Heart

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Love, Life, Moving On, Forward In Life, Inspirational Moving Forward

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Break Up, Marriage, Say I Love You, Love Poems

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

topic: Love, Life, Break Up, Hurting Him, Back Together

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

- Javan

topic: Magic, Sometimes, Illusion, Love And Heartbreak, My Heart Is Broken

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

- LeBron James

topic: Love, Heart, People, Love Pain, Mending A Broken Heart

If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

- Thomas Otway

source: "Best Plays".

topic: Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Love And Heartbreak, Love And Broken Heart

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

- William Blake

topic: Broken Heart, Giving, Heaven, Innocence And Experience, Love And Broken Heart

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Broken Heart, Free Love, Thee, Love And Heartbreak, My Heart Is Broken

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

- William Butler Yeats

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

- Drake

topic: Ends, Hottest, Love And Heartbreak, Love And Broken Heart, Love And Lost

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Mending A Broken Heart, Love And Heartbreak