170 Broken Heart Love Quotes

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Famous Broken Heart Love Quotes

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed

Hearts Live By Being Wounded - Oscar Wilde

Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde

The heart will break, but broken live on. - Lord Byron

The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache. — Elif Safak

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. — Leigh Hunt

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on. — Barbara De Angelis

My heart shattered. My world shattered - Richelle Mead

My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. — Nicholas Sparks

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you. — Vipin Sharma

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

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow

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

The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — Eduardo C. Corral

Short Broken Heart Love Quotes

  • Look after my heart - I've left it with you. — Stephenie Meyer
  • Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces. — Drake
  • All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache. — Alfred Stieglitz
  • What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone
  • Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — L. Frank Baum
  • Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken. — Amy Poehler
  • If they break your heart, break their bones — Greyson Chance
  • Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. — Henry Rollins
  • Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
  • A heart in love with beauty never grows old. — Proverbs

Broken Heart Love Image Quotes

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. - Marilyn Monroe quote

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

Broken heart love quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Sad 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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. — Robert McNamara

Broken heart love quote A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forg
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love. — Tammara Webber

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. — Oscar Wilde

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

Broken heart love quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

They always say the hottest love has the coldest end. — Drake

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned. — William Butler Yeats

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

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake

Broken Heart Lost Love Quotes

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling

Broken heart love quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. — John Mayer

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. — Stendhal

Broken heart love quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart. — Ben Harper

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

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. — Rupert Brooke

Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affectionBuddha

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Theresa

Broken heart love quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. — Roy Croft

Broken heart love quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. - Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. — Anonymous

Love And Broken Heart Quotes

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver

You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. — Bob Marley

Broken heart love quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. — Rumi

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted — Robert Burns

Broken heart love quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken. — Yasmin Mogahed

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

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

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. — Jodi Picoult

Broken Heart Quotes

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Broken heart love quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. - Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph

Broken heart love quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. — Chogyam Trungpa

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. — Leonard Cohen

God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf

Broken Love Quotes

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga

I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through. — Andrea Gibson

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. — Stephen Greenblatt

Heart Breaking Love Quotes

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". - Nina Simone

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides. — Dylan Thomas

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. — C. S. Lewis

My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. Remain there always. — Bernadette Soubirous

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman

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

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR. — Ashley Purdy

Life is good, life is great. Always love and never hate. Break the rules, stand apart. Ignore your head and follow your heart. — Ashley Purdy

Breaking Heart In Love Quotes

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. — C. S. Lewis

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart. — William Wordsworth

It’s better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. — African Proverbs

The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you-no matter what. — Joyce Meyer

The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing. — Paul Washer

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you — Stephenie Meyer

When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty. — Marlene Dumas

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. — Gregory David Roberts

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight. — Mariah Carey

Heartbreaking Love Quotes

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

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

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

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

Sad Broken Heart Quotes

To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do. — Krystal

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. — Frank Ocean

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling. — Hiro Mashima

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

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. — George Bernard Shaw

What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. — Margaret Mitchell

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. — Sara Teasdale

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all. — Sayings

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More Broken Heart Love Quotes

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. — C. S. Lewis

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. — Johnny Weir

For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me! — David Lee Roth

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. — Bonnie Tyler

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. — Gangaji

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. — C. S. Lewis

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. — C. S. Lewis

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. — W. Somerset Maugham

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. — E. A. Bucchianeri

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. — Charlie Sheen

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might. — Rihanna

What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you. — John R. Rice

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