170 Heart Breaking Love Quotes

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Famous Heart Breaking Love Quotes

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

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

My heart shattered. My world shattered - Richelle Mead

My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead

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

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone

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

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

To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced. — KB

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

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. - Henry Rollins

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. — Henry Rollins

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God. — Rumi

Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow. — Michael Bassey

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

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

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

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

Short Heart Breaking Love Quotes

  • Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. — Leigh Hunt
  • Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
  • Love is trembling happiness. — Kahlil Gibran
  • Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure. — Mother Teresa
  • Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way
  • such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour — Richard Paul Evans
  • Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde
  • Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. — Drew Barrymore
  • The hottest love has the coldest end. — Socrates
  • I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. — Edith Piaf

Heart Breaking Love Image Quotes

Heart breaking 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 Heart Breaking Love Quotes

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

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk. — T. D. Jakes

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

Heart breaking 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

I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay — Sara Evans

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

Heart breaking 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.

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

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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

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

Most Heartbreaking Love Quotes

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

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

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

Heart breaking 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.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Heart breaking 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.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak. — Casey Kasum

My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak. — Adrian Marcel

Heartbreak is essential. We grow, evolve, and learn about the most beautiful thing ever: Love! My first heartbreak taught me that love is supposed to ADD beauty and happiness to my already love-filled life! — Zulay Henao

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. — Raymond Queneau

Breaking Heart In Love Quotes

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

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

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

Heart breaking 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.

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

Heart breaking 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.

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

Heartbreaking 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

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

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

Heart breaking 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.

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

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

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

Heart breaking 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.

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

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

Broken Heart Love Quotes

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

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 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

Heart breaking 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.

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

Heart breaking love quote Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.
Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.

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

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken. — Amy Poehler

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

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

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

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

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

Love And Heartbreak Quotes

Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day. — Gayle Forman

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. — Sylvia Plath

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. — Leo Buscaglia

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss. — Hugh Jackman

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

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. — Malcolm X

I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color. — Taraji P. Henson

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

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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

Heart Broke Quotes

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

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

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

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

Breaking My Heart Quotes

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day. — Warsan Shire

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. — Emily Dickinson

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

I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.” — Emo Philips

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

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. — Bobby Sands

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow. — Sylvia Plath

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

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys. - Sam Smith

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys. — Sam Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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More Heart Breaking Love Quotes

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

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking. — Helen Steiner Rice

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

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

It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength. — John Welwood

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

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

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing. — Andrew Harvey

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. — Charles M. Schulz

Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. — Drake

I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love. — Kirk Douglas

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. — Alan Moore

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love. — Solomon

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

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