My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead
Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. — Henry Rollins
Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache. — Elif Safak
Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson. — Jon Voight
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — Eduardo C. Corral
The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron
The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart. — ASAP Rocky
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
Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered? — Sandra Cisneros
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
If they break your heart, break their bones — Greyson Chance
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
Short 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
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen
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
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa
Heartbreak Image Quotes
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. — Langston Hughes
Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreaks make you wiser, so thank the past for better future.
Sad Heartbreak Quotes
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
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
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
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
They always say the hottest love has the coldest end. — Drake
I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser
Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you. — Lauren Conrad
Getting Over Heartbreak 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
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake
It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason. — Caroline Dhavernas
Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over anything. — Beverly Johnson
Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls. — James A. Murphy III
You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn. — Jonathan Tropper
First Heartbreak Quotes
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
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert
My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. — Taraji P. Henson
I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first time you feel that sort of pain, you think it's never going to go away. Once you do survive it, you realize you can survive anything. — Zoe Kravitz
Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that. — Roger McGuinn
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. — Jill Scott
When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking. — Marco Rubio
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did. — Adele
Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother. — Natasha Gregson Wagner
I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today, in 2008 when I had the worst heartbreak of my life with my first girlfriend. It inspired great music. — Kevin McCall
Relationship Heartbreak Quotes
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
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
Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship. — Anne Hathaway
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. — L. Frank Baum
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous, and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. — James E. Faust
I've never been married, and I've never been divorced. But I have had some very serious relationships. I was engaged twice. The way that those relationships ended, it was very very heartbreaking. — Thomas Haden Church
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert
There are certain relationships in our lives that implode, and it can feel really inexplicable and terrifying. You don't know why, and sometimes relationships end for reasons that one person keeps from the other person, and it's just totally unclear, and it just goes south and it's heartbreaking. — Ed Helms
Friendship Heartbreak Quotes
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks. — Sophia Bush
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
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
Sisters make the best friends in the world. — Marilyn Monroe
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be. — Pearl S. Buck
Heartbreaking Love Quotes
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
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
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling
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
I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out. — Kami Garcia
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
Love And Heartbreak Quotes
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
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
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
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
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
Heartache 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
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
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
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. — Amy Lowell
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. — Joni Eareckson Tada
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
Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches. — Shiv Khera
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
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
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
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. — Gangaji
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
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
Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth. — Mariah Carey
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. — Dennis Brown
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. — Jeffrey McDaniel
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
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
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
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
Heart Breaking Love Quotes
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
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. — C. S. Lewis
My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. Remain there always. — Bernadette Soubirous
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
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. — Jodi Picoult
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR. — Ashley Purdy
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on. — Barbara De Angelis
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
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
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
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't. — Louis C. K.
Broken Heart Love Quotes
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
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
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
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
Sad Broken Heart Quotes
To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do. — Krystal
Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. — Robert McNamara
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
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. — George Bernard Shaw
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. — Margaret Mitchell
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. — Sara Teasdale
I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all. — Sayings
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. — Usher
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
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God. — Johnny Cash
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
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are. — Katherine Center
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
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. — John Green
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. — Mandy Hale
If you pay attention to the patterns of your life, you'll realize how much you owe to failure, heartbreak, and rejection. How these things took you to a greater destination, how they helped you to grow and understand what was really meant for you. You must always remember that. — Steven Bartlett
If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life. — Yasmin Mogahed
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger. — Osamu Dazai
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. — James A. Baldwin
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation? — Becca Fitzpatrick
I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role. — Lee Majors
I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it. — Ray Charles
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