Broken Heart Quotes

Broken Heart Quotes

• “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.”
  - Missy Altijd
• “God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.”
  - Author Unknown
• “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
  - Bess Myerson
• “Love is unconditional, relationships are not.”
  - Grant Gudmundson
• “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
  - Jean de La Fontaine
• “It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.”
  - Author Unknown
• “God is closest to those with broken hearts.”
  - Jewish Saying
• “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
  - Jean Giraudoux
• “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
  - Lamartine
• “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
  - Marcus Aurelius
• “…Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes
  Lost every day, no map to follow
  Entire days, weeks, a blur
  Flickers of light, in the darkness,
  Only to be enveloped in shadows once more…”
  - Peter Winstanley
• “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
  - Mignon McLaughlin
• “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
  - Richard Wilbur
• “A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.”
  - Author Unknown
• “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”
  - Rosa Parks
• “I hate the day, because it lendeth light
  To see all things, but not my love to see.”
  - Edmund Spenser
• “Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.”
  - Author Unknown
• “If we must part forever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.”
  - Thomas Otway
• “Walking, working, barely breathing
  My thoughts, far away
  Heart aching, mind racing
  Sleep does not come easily, nor last long…”
  - Peter Winstanley
• “If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”
  - Unknown Author
• What is the opposite of two?  A lonely me, a lonely you.  ~Richard Wilbur
• Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
• Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown
• aloneonbeach-webSadness flies away on the wings of time.
  ~Jean de La Fontaine
• I don’t know why they call it heartbreak.  It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.  ~Missy Altijd
• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  
• I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.  ~Rosa Parks
• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux
• Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.  ~Lamartine
• I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead.Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke
• sadsilhouette-webWhen love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.  ~Author Unknown
• I hate the day, because it lendeth light
  To see all things, but not my love to see. ~Edmund Spenser
• Love is like a puzzle.  When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.  ~Author Unknown
• [A] final comfort that is small, but not cold:  The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem
• If we must part forever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.
  ~Thomas Otway
• Bad as I like ye, it’s worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
• Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.  Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.  ~Author Unknown
• Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
  Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
  ~Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Don’t worry about losing.  If it is right, it happens
  The Main thing is not to hurry.
  Nothing good gets away.  ~John Steinbeck
• My love lies bleeding. ~Thomas Campbell
• God is closest to those with broken hearts.  ~Jewish Saying
• Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.
  ~Author Unknown
• I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you;
  of squeezing it into little inkdrops, and posting it.~Amy Lowell, “The Letter”
  It’s not love’s going hurts my days, But that it went in little ways.
  ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
• I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.  ~From the television show The Wonder Years
• My joy was skipping
  Around our love
  It tripped.~Valentine Sterling
• They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.  ~E. Wilder
• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown
• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.  ~J.K. Rowling
• Yes, I will go.  I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces
• Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Maid of Athens”
• rainbow-webLet no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie
• As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.  ~Toto
• Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen
• All days are nights to see till I see thee,
  And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
  ~William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XLIII”
• Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?  ~Richard Bach
• If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi
• Within you I lose myself…
  Without you I find myself
  Wanting to be lost again.~Author Unknown
• Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson,
• deadtreebluesky-webGone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun
  From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. ~Alfred Tennyson
• What is the opposite of two?  A lonely me, a lonely you.
  ~Richard Wilbur
• No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.  ~Robert Southey
• Your absence has gone through me
  Like thread through a needle
  Everything I do is stitched with its color.
  ~W.S. Merwin
• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.  ~William Cowper
• Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
  And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
  ~George Linley
• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.  ~John Dryden
• aboutadog-webLife is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
  We ought to be together, you and I.
  ~Henry Alford
• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.  ~Tryon Edwards
• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades
• In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.  ~Hans Nouwens
• I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart. ~Albany Bach Reid
• You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.  ~Jaesse Tyler
• I dropped a tear in the ocean.  The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown
• To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.  ~George Lansdowne
• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
  ~Ben Jonson
• sadangel-webThe joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?  ~Nicholas Rowe
• We only part to meet again. ~John Gay
• Don’t be dismayed by good-byes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.  ~Richard Bach
• Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown
• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins
• It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is true of men as of dogs.  ~Eric Hoffer
• I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long.  If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
• The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
  ~Henry Maudsley
• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran
• Let your tears come.  Let them water your soul.  ~Eileen Mayhew
• Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut
• blkwhitesadgirl-webHeaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
  ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
  ~John Vance Cheney
• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee
• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
  ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir
• Tears are Summer showers to the soul.  ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola
• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias
• What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.  ~Jewish Proverb
• I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief.  Then I know I’m really crying.  Crying just isn’t crying unless it’s messy. ~D.H. Mondfleur
• I often want to cry.  That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.  ~Jean Rhys
• It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.  ~Henry Ward Beecher
• Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.  ~Lewis B. Smedes,
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.  ~Antoine Rivarol
• If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
• He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.  ~George Herbert
• There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
• Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.  ~Roberto Assagioli
• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
• Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
  ~Oscar Wilde
• Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw
• In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell
• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.  ~William Penn
• Lips that taste of tears, they say,
  Are the best for kissing.~Dorothy Parker
• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings
• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin
• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~Mark Twain
• As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes
• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.  ~Ovid
• Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire
• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot
• Jealousy is a crutch. ~C. Astrid Weber
• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac
• Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward
• The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen
• Trifles light as air
  Are to the jealous confirmations strong
  As proofs of holy writ.~William Shakespeare, Othello
• The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
  ~Dorothy Dix
• Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
  It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
  The meat it feeds on.~William Shakespeare, Othello
• I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying. ~Amborella Oltre
• Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid
• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~Mahatma Gandhi
• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis
• If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb
• No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive.
• I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
• It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.
• Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.  ~Leslie Grimutter
• If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
• Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.
• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain
• Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
• A day without you is like a day without sunshine… I miss you…
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• You may be out of my sight… but never out of my mind… I Miss You!
• Although we’ve come to the end of the road, still I can’t let you go, it’s unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you .
• When I miss you, I don’t have to go far … I just have to look inside my heart because that’s where I’ll find you.
• Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
  ~Harriet Nelson
• Why is it that when you miss someone so much that your heart is ready to disintegrate, you hear the saddest song on the radio?
• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”~Washington Irving
• An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
  ~Harold Lokes
• The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.
  Anonymous
• You never lose by loving. You always lost by holding back.
  Anon
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.~Kahlil Gibran
• Jealousy… is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes
• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
  ~Anais Nin
• Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…
  ~William Butler Yeats
• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
  ~Samuel Butler
• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.~Washington Irving
• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.~William Blake
• Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
  ~Javan