170 Heartache Quotes

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Famous Heartache Quotes

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

Love was like a toothache. — Eiji Yoshikawa

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

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache. — Alfred Stieglitz

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away. — Ewan McGregor

Expectation is the root of all heartache. - William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache. — William Shakespeare

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. — Joni Eareckson Tada

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour — Richard Paul Evans

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. — Michael Bruce

I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone. — Dan Howell

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

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

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain. — Abraham Cowley

Short Heartache Quotes

  • Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
  • Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches. — Shiv Khera
  • Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
  • Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow. — Rumi
  • Danger is real. Heartache is real. Fear is not. It’s a story we tell ourselves. — Brianna Wiest
  • Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. — Richard Paul Evans
  • Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret
  • Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"? — Patton Oswalt
  • No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds. — Red Skelton
  • Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache. — Stephen King

Heartache Image Quotes

Heartache quote Expectation is the too of all heartache.
Expectation is the too of all heartache.

Pain And Heartache Quotes

Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God. — Max Lucado

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory. — Charles R. Swindoll

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness. — William P. Young

The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. — Thomas S. Monson

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes. — Adam Hamilton

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful. — Joel Dicker

You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the possibility of love. — Demetria McKinney

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly. — Tig Notaro

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. — Dani Shapiro

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

My Heartache Quotes

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. — Amy Lowell

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold. — Dolly Parton

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. — Judy Collins

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

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. — Oprah Winfrey

I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. — Og Mandino

I might not of told you enough that I loved you but I didn't expect for you to cheat, I loved you and you knew that and I still do, I might of argued with you, pushed you away but I still loved, I still do, you walk away as I cry with my hand on my chest because my heart feels like it will tear. — Harriet Morgan

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man. — Doug Benson

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love And Heartache Quotes

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. — Charlotte Bronte

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you. — Lauren Conrad

Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so. — Thomas S. Monson

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life is love, heartache and strain, Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane. — O.C.

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

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. — Abraham Lincoln

Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on. — Sarah Jio

Heartbreak Quotes

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

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

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. — Theodore Roosevelt

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 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

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.' — Richard Rohr

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

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

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. — Drake

Heart Broke 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heartbroken Quotes

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey

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

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together — Colleen Hoover

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

My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing. — Fred Haise

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. — Dominic Monaghan

I’m a coward. I succumbed to jealousy and now it eats my heart. — Antonio Vivaldi

Love And Heartbreak Quotes

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

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 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

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

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

Sad Heart Quotes

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. — Paramahansa Yogananda

How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong. — Chief Dan George

Tears are words the heart can't express - Gerard Way

Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way

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

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson

Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph. — Pio of Pietrelcina

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

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

Heart Hurts Quotes

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable. — Matt Chandler

Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal. — Neem Karoli Baba

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart. — Pope John Paul II

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. — Mother Teresa

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold. — J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time. — Lisa Marie Presley

Broken Heart Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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More Heartache Quotes

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. — Napoleon Hill

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile. — George Strait

Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction...I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches...I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived. — Lil Wayne

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott

Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache. — J. Vernon McGee

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. — Joel Osteen

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

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna. — Storm Jameson

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey. — SebastiAn

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all. — Norman Cousins

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. — J. Courtney Sullivan

To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache. — Jasper Fforde

The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little. — Joy Harjo

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what. — Charles Stanley

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. — Richard Marx

There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone. — Jocelyn Murray

The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or had a miscarriage? Or a gay person whose partner has died? Or an elderly person who has lost every friend and relative? So many heartaches can't be found in the dictionary. — Jeffrey Zaslow

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way. — Diana Nyad

Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it. — Nicole Williams

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. — Stephen King

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. — William Allen White

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence. — Walt Disney

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

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

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. — Iyanla Vanzant

The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold. — Catherine Marshall

Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person. — Chelsea Handler

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