163 Sad Broken Heart Quotes

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Famous Sad Broken Heart Quotes

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

My heart shattered. My world shattered - Richelle Mead

My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead

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

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

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

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

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

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. — Leigh Hunt

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

The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — Eduardo C. Corral

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world. — Alice Walker

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

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph

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

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

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

Short Sad Broken Heart Quotes

  • Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
  • When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. — Drake
  • Hearts Live By Being Wounded — Oscar Wilde
  • The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Leave my loneliness unbroken — Edgar Allan Poe
  • The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks
  • Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. — Drake
  • The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look after my heart - I've left it with you. — Stephenie Meyer
  • Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces. — Drake

Sad Broken Heart Image Quotes

Sad broken heart quote Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

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

Sad broken heart quote A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forg
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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

Broken Heart Quotes

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

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

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

Sad broken heart quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

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

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

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

Sad broken heart quote Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

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

Heart Broke Quotes

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda

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

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

Sad broken heart quote It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through t
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.

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

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

Sad broken heart quote Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

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

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. — Gangaji

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

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

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

Sad broken heart quote Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.

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

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

Sad broken heart quote You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

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

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Love And Broken Heart Quotes

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

Sad broken heart quote If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, tha
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. — Giacomo Casanova

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. — Jodi Picoult

For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me! — David Lee Roth

Sad broken heart quote Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a prett
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.

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

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

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

Heartbroken Quotes

Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey

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

Sad broken heart quote Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

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

Sad Love Quotes

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. - A. A. Milne

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. - William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht

All good things must come to an end. — Geoffrey Chaucer

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain — Boonaa Mohammed

The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life. — Hank Williams, Jr.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo

Shattered Heart Quotes

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first. — Yasmin Mogahed

God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts. — Larry Crabb

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me. — Wallace Stegner

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? — Omar Khayyam

During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Each man kills the thing he loves. — Anthony Burgess

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red — Tite Kubo

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. — Will Durant

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards. — Suzanne Collins

Breaking Heart In Love Quotes

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis

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

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

Heal A Broken Heart Quotes

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. — Caroline Myss

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky - William P. Young

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. — Robert James Waller

I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help. — Frank Sinatra

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

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

Love can heal a broken heart. — Unknown

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery. — Allen Klein

I can heal a broken heart with a smile. — Rumi

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle. — Jerry Spinelli

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More Sad Broken Heart Quotes

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

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux

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

There are a million ways to lose someone you love. — Tammara Webber

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

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

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

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser

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

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. — Justin Timberlake

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

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

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

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. — Fred Savage

And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do. — Rupert Brooke

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart. — Elizabeth Lesser

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart. — Don Gibson

I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted...leaving me broken hearted. — Chris Elam

Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already. — Jack Kerouac

When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. — Sandra Cisneros

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all. — Liz Tuccillo

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. — Hank Williams, Jr.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again. — Bruce Springsteen

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole? — Frank Zappa

You and I both know there's got to be some greater storyline for you than 'girl gets heart broken, was sad forever'. I think a nice one would be 'girl gets heart broken, was sad for a while but in her heartbreak she found freedom, friends, and the ability to look back and laugh at all she'd learned. She now lives her life on her own terms and still has fantastic hair.' — Taylor Swift

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence. — Julie Powell

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world. — Paulo Coelho

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind! — Elizabeth Gilbert

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