Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain. — Willie Nelson
My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead
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
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
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this. — Edward Barber
Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure. — Mother Teresa
Short Heartbreaking Love Quotes
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
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport. — Zayn Malik
It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently. — Anna Akhmatova
love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. — Jeff Buckley
Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow. — Michael Bassey
Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed
All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache. — Alfred Stieglitz
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. — Kiera Cass
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. — Shannon Alder
Heartbreaking Love Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
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
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
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
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
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
Sad Heartbreaking 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
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
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
There are a million ways to lose someone you love. — Tammara Webber
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
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
Love And 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
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
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
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
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
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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
Heart Breaking Love Quotes
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone
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
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
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
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. — Jim Henson
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
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
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
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Breaking Heart In Love Quotes
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
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
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
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
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. — Gregory David Roberts
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
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
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
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
People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might. — Rihanna
Heartbreak Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. — John Green
Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys. — Sam Smith
Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me. — Matthew West
Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role. — Jurgen Klopp
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
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
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
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
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
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
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. — Marilyn Monroe
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. — Kahlil Gibran
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from. — Marc Maron
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. — Charles M. Schulz
One is easily fooled by that which one loves. — Moliere
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak. — Mellody Hobson
I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight. — Mariah Carey
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