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
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
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.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
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
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. — Caroline Myss
Failed Relationship Quotes
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. — James Hillman
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones. — Steve Martin
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. — Steve Martin
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. — Shannon Alder
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. — Judith Lewis Herman
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth — Theodor Reik
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes
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
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
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
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
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
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
Friendship Broken Quotes
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends — Mark Twain
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. — Mary Catherwood
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor. — Giambattista Basile
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
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships. — Freya Stark
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant. — Buddha
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound. — Proverbs
Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you. — Judy Tenuta
Broken Up Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world — Stone Cold Steve Austin
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
If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.
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 soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
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
Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. — Zig Ziglar
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs
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
Broken Marriage Quotes
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
Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away. — Matshona Dhliwayo
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again. — Peter Kreeft
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. — Wallis Simpson
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. — Mort Sahl
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage. — Oscar Wilde
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me. — Michael C. Hall
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. — Ricky Skaggs
Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson. — Mike Brearley
Bad Relationship Quotes
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love. Be grateful for this beautiful day. — Norton Juster
I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period. — J. Cole
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend. — Cara Delevingne
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship. — Harville Hendrix
What would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough. — Tim Grover
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer
Broken Heart Quotes
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
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
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
The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron
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
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
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
Broken Family Quotes
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? — Mother Teresa
We confide in each other and we really spend time together like a family. And since I'm the maknae, my unnies take care of me even more. I don't think we will be broken apart very easily. — Seohyun
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. — Star Parker
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. — Dave Mustaine
I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family. — Tupac Shakur
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it! — Jamie Foxx
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death. — Rick Warren
Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy. — Christopher Titus
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State. — Patrick J. Kennedy
Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family. — Tupac Shakur
Broke Up Quotes
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. — Sylvester Stallone
When your ex says ‘You’ll never find anyone like me’. Say ‘that’s the point’. — Drake
I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams. — Beyonce Knowles
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. — Jennifer Garner
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. — Jim Henson
I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week. — Bon Scott
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger — Sara Evans
Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff. — Dave Ramsey
More Broken Relationship 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
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
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
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. — T. S. Eliot
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger — Sara Evans
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that. — Johnny Depp
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
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely. — Daniel Libeskind
The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature. — Rosemary Radford Ruether
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. — Caroline Myss
Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. — Drake
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. — Stephen Covey
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan
You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces. — Patsy Cline
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements — Stephen Covey
I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along. — Jeff Lindsay
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. — Kristin Hannah
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator. — Yasmin Mogahed
Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally. — Gloria Gaither
There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart. — Ben Harper
I think relationships are broken up because of the media. — Jay-Z
All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony. — Herbert Lockyer
Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires. — Amy Sedaris
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. — Oprah Winfrey
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake
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
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down. — Eckhart Tolle
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship. — Mark Cuban
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love. — Ashly Lorenzana
I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show. — Drake
I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love. — Selena Gomez
In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions. — Nancy Pearcey
I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't. — Will Estes
When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important. — Esther Hicks
Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to. — Suzi Quatro
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on — Criss Jami
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