170 Broken Heart Quotes

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Famous Broken Heart Quotes

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Hearts Live By Being Wounded - Oscar Wilde

Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde

My heart shattered. My world shattered - Richelle Mead

My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead

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

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

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does. — Shane Koyczan

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before". — Cassandra Clare

They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat. - Lewis Grizzard

They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat. — Lewis Grizzard

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

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. — Robert James Waller

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

Short Broken Heart Quotes

  • The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
  • Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Look after my heart - I've left it with you. — Stephenie Meyer
  • Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — L. Frank Baum
  • If they break your heart, break their bones — Greyson Chance
  • Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache. — Elif Safak
  • Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces. — Drake
  • The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
  • A stout heart breaks bad luck. — Miguel de Cervantes
  • Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken. — Amy Poehler

Top 10 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

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

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

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

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

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

Broken Heart Image Quotes

Broken heart quote If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, tha
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. - Albert Camus quote

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. — Albert Camus

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. - Samuel Chadwick quote

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. — Samuel Chadwick

Broken heart quote Best way to not get your heart broken, is pretend you don't have one.
Best way to not get your heart broken, is pretend you don't have one.
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. - Virgil quote

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. — Virgil

Broken heart quote Where there is a secret - there is a heart waiting to be broken.
Where there is a secret - there is a heart waiting to be broken.

Deep Broken Heart Quotes

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. — William Butler Yeats

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen. — James MacDonald

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

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

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! — Thomas Moore

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric. — Taylor Swift

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide. — Peter Gabriel

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went — Beth Moore

Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger. — Susan Wiggs

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him — Christopher Paolini

My Broken Heart Quotes

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

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

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky - William P. Young

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. — Ann Landers

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

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. — C. S. Lewis

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

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. — John Green

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

Broken Heart Love Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love And Broken Heart Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sad Broken Heart Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heal A Broken Heart Quotes

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. — Caroline Myss

I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help. — Frank Sinatra

The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

Love can heal a broken heart. — Unknown

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery. — Allen Klein

I can heal a broken heart with a smile. — Rumi

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle. — Jerry Spinelli

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart. — Don Gibson

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale. — Cassandra Clare

Mending A Broken Heart Quotes

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end. — Wes Fesler

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual. — Barbara Pym

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before. — Robertson Davies

Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole. — David James Duncan

How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend? — Tarryn Fisher

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. — Criss Jami

If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time. — Griffin Dunne

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good. — Joseph Fiennes

There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. — Kate DiCamillo

Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended. — Vladimir Nabokov

Heart Broke Quotes

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke. — Tea Leoni

I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted. — Cardi B

I've never had my heart broken. — Sally Field

I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way. — Michael Fassbender

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

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there. — Markus Zusak

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. — Faraaz Kazi

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them. — Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love. — Charles Stanley

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More Broken Heart Quotes

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. — Tony Robbins

I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG. — Shane Koyczan

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

I long for You so much I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks That are high in the mountains That I know are years old. I long for You so much I have even begun to travel Where I have never been before. — Hafez

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

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. — Marlene Dietrich

Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted. — Hamza Yusuf

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

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. — Andrew Harvey

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God. — Natalie Grant

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