All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache. — Alfred Stieglitz
such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour — Richard Paul Evans
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good — John Mayer
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 a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. — Scott Westerfeld
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
The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it. — Katrina Kaif
Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed
Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson. — Jon Voight
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness — Rick Riordan
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. — Jeff Buckley
Love was like a toothache. — Eiji Yoshikawa
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. — Pearl Bailey
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. — Shannon Alder
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. — Leigh Hunt
Love is full of anxious fears. — Ovid
life without love, is no life at all — Leonardo da Vinci
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — Eduardo C. Corral
Love And Heartbreak Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Love Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone
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
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
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
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
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 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
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
Love And Broken Heart 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
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
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
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
Heartbreaking Love Quotes
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley
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
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
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
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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
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
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
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
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
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
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
Heartbreak Quotes
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
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
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
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
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 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
Love And Pain Quotes
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed
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 — Helen Steiner Rice
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. — Bob Marley
Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love. — Mother Angelica
Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. — Zion Lee
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. — Anandamayi Ma
Mending A Broken Heart Quotes
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 best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end. — Wes Fesler
People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart. — LeBron James
There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual. — Barbara Pym
Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before. — Robertson Davies
Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole. — David James Duncan
How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend? — Tarryn Fisher
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. — Criss Jami
If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time. — Griffin Dunne
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
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
There are a million ways to lose someone you love. — Tammara Webber
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
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
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
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — 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 hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser
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
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you. — Wil Wheaton
If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love. — Rick Warren
We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. — Kristin Armstrong
Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do. — Pat Benatar
The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God. — Yasmin Mogahed
Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is. Heartbreak is a constant and it is even necessary. It allows us the opportunity of introspection and exploration. Those processes are what is necessary to write and engage in the arts. — Sandra Cisneros
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
Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking. — Weegee
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? — Leo Buscaglia
If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it. — Margaret Mitchell
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again. — Brené Brown
Sisters make the best friends in the world. — Marilyn Monroe
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