Quotes about heartbreak

Jaachynma N.E. Agu - Be Different

Don't Sit Around Waiting For Someone Who's Taken A Walk off Your Life to Come Back Get Going Too!

Ellen DeGeneres -

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

Casey Kasem -

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Justin Wetch - Bending The Universe

You see flaws in every faceIf you look long enough.That’s why I’m so afraidOf the word ‘forever’. Forever is long enoughFor sunrises to become staleFor fire to become tameFor a favorite songTo become like nailsOn a chalkboardForever is long enoughFor passion to waste awayLike grapes into raisinsUnder the beating sunOf countless days.

Jeremy Aldana -

Thoughts are as simple as the process…a message from the soul conveyed through the heart received in the mind

D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Abby Fabiaschi - I Liked My Life

Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire it makes you vulnerable to their reality.

Aishabella Sheikh - Entwined

Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It's like playing with fire you know you'll get burnt but you are still captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heat.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Book knowledge takes action based on reasons common sense takes action based on the reason from the reasons!

Gregory David Roberts -

Mistakes are like bad loves the more you learn from them the more you wish they'd never happened.

Jim Fergus - One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world how they are destroyed.

Francesca Marciano - Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage love had to do with trust.

rainbowbrook - Kissing Is the Easy Part

I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall.

Isabel Allende - Inés of My Soul

How accommodating love is it forgives everything.

Moywaywa -

There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who wont any more and who always will. And in the end you will learn who is fake, who is true and who would risk it all for you.

Bella Andre - Candy Store

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

Manoj Kumar Duppala - With You

To people who think I’m happy, just look again; the scars of my past will lead you to a place no one knows, a place no other person can imagine, a place that echoes with the desolate cries of a lonely heart, a place where I’m being stabbed to death hundreds of times.

Sarah Noffke - Revived

When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I’m as solid as a column. And alone I stand.

Anonymous -

Stab me in the heart; once, twice, more. For it is your own you are stabbing; I gave you mine to hold long ago. No pain will be greater than you leaving with my heart in your hands. Rip me apart or hold it for eternity, in the name of love.

Amy Plum - Die Once More

The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I'm always surrounded by others, so I won't have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.

Alexis Hall - Waiting for the Flood

I thought of Marius. Wild, wonderful, Byronic-fantasy Marius, who had somehow found something he wanted in the everyday quietness of me. Until he hadn't.

Cole Ryan - Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point

In the first book of the Bible it is written that: "The Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” In another translation it is written like this: "God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart.” "It grieved him to his heart.""It broke his heart."We grieved him to his heart. We broke his heart. God’s heart can be…broken? You cannot love without being vulnerable - because love involves the risk of the person you’re lo

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading

(Divorce)We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown, Like royalty who’ve earned the throne. An aisle made of gold, To have and to hold.My dress made of rags, A suit that’s so torn.All eyes are on me,But mine only on you. You give your hand,A king to his queen,But know this darling,Mulligans aren’t for the weak. By changing the rules,We’re changing the war,The wounds that we’ve known,Battle stains on the floor.But from this day on,The same as before, You are the apple,My eyes still adore.Worth more t

Heather Chapple - Write like no one is reading

Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading

When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.

David Levithan - and Other Stories

Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending.

Brandi Glanville - Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

Sure, occasionally a certain sappy song or romantic movie would come on, and you’d wonder what he or she was up to, but there was no way to know. Of course, you could always pick up the phone (and more recently, text or e-mail), but that would require that person’s knowing you were thinking of him or her. Where’s the fun in that? You never want them to know you’re thinking of them, so you refrain. Before long the memories start to fade. One day, you realize you can’t quite remember how she smell

Phar West Nagle -

But when you kiss me there's a spark, and I can't remember I'm only food to be consumed like an apple and not loved like a woman.

David Levithan - and Other Stories

That's what it felt like---that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

David Levithan - and Other Stories

It’s not easy,” she says, in that voice that mothers have, that mix of unwanted knowledge and small consolation. “Whatever you had—I don’t know exactly what it was, and that’s fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that’s okay. But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

David Eso - Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. — Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)

David Levithan - and Other Stories

My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.

David Levithan - and Other Stories

I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Auliq Ice -

A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.

Diane Ackerman - A Natural History of Love

Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. Sitting still, we are as daring as gladiators.

David Levithan - and Other Stories

It doesn’t work,” she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. “What you’re feeling right now doesn’t work. You can’t wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don’t want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it’s none of my business. But still.

Phar West Nagle -

I mostly hope you think I miss you and in the end you hope you'll get me, but that's fantasy, untrue as you, and bitter as the hope you left me.

David Levithan - and Other Stories

I’m so sorry,” I continue. And it’s like the last word is a hurdle and I can’t leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.

Phar West Nagle -

It's better to have loved and lost than never love at all - I doubt that sorry statement every time I fall.

Brandi Glanville - Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

Jennifer Harrison - Perverse Wonderland

The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

Brandi Glanville - Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

And finally, always remember that the other person started it.

Marie Lu - Champion

What's the point of keeping in touch with the girl you're crazy about, when you're dying?

Jerilee Kaye - Knight in Shining Suit

That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotion pain, it's a physical pain too.

Andrea Gibson -

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.

Catherine Lacey - Nobody Is Ever Missing

Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

Jay McLean - More Than Forever

She blows a heavy breath, her eyes so full of tears that if she blinked, they'd fall.And then she does.She blinks. They fall. I break.- Cam

Ernest Hemingway - To Have and Have Not

Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have? And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and quinine until I'm deaf with it. Love is that aborting horror you took me to. Love is my insides all messed up. It's half catheters and half whi

Theodore Roethke -

When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself.

Jandy Nelson -

Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was.

Elyse Draper -

Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.

Alan Kinross - Longinus the Vampire: Redemption

You have found love in your heart - and out of small changes come great things.

Brandi Glanville - Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

The most surprising thing about breaking up is that you already know how to do it. Everything you need to know, you learned in kindergarten. Yours should always be better than his (especially when it comes to lawyers).

Katherine Dunn -

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

Brandi Glanville - Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

...if you discover your partner is cheating, drink like it’s your last party, blame everyone else for your problems, let “binging” be your new favorite hobby, and, by all means, FUCKING PANIC.

Denis Fitzpatrick - This Mirror in Me

The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one’s new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one’s existence. The only one.

Casey Renee Kiser - Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

I can't get his bonesto go down the fucking drain.I try to stuff the tiny holes,too tiny for this pain.I can't get his bonesto break any way for my gain.Break them back a little too far,never too far for the sake of sane.

Brandi Glanville - Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

The moral of the story couldn’t be clearer: you already know if your partner is fucking around behind your back, you just need to decide if you’re done being a doormat. You need to wake up one morning and decide that those rose-colored glasses are so last fucking season.

Monika Zands -

Wake up people, you are sleeping your life away!

Abigail Roux - Touch & Geaux

Two days ago, I was trying to decide how to ask him to marry me,” Zane whispered. “Tonight I’m trying to figure out if I can even love someone like him.

Tarryn Fisher - Thief

Her next words took me by surprise. I lay as still as I could, barely breathing, afraid that if I moved she would stop speaking her heart.“My mom wanted six children. She only got me, and that sucks for her because I was a total weirdo.”“You were not,” I said.She twisted her head up to look at me.“I used to line my lips in black eyeliner and sit cross-legged on the kitchen table … meditating.”“Not that bad,” I said. “Crying out for attention.”“Okay, when I was twelve I started writing letters to

Courtney Giardina - Holding on to Georgia

A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reason she had forced herself to keep her distance from love. Why she had given up on trusting someone not to hurt her. Because a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was an unbearable pain to endure. And sometimes, no matter how much you want to be with someone, there’s never a guarantee that they want you back.

J.M. Barrie -

All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me. It may be that I wondered over-much. Perhaps that was why I lost her.

Emma Taylor -

I fell for you.You fell for me.Our friendship was just meant to be.I asked if you loved me, and you said you did.The next day you said that you wish you never did.I fell apart that very day, begging you to stay.You said no and pushed me away.Now this very day im glad you didnt stay

Sarah Rees Brennan - The Night After I Lost You

She looked defeated, a castle stormed, torn down, with no one living inside. She looked like a hollowed-out creature, only shell and no soul.

Various -

If they're dumb enough to walk away be , strong enough to let them go

Courtney Giardina - Holding on to Georgia

The guilt fell upon him like a hammer to a nail. He dropped onto his bed, grabbing the picture frame that sat next to it. I’m sorry were the words that repeatedly came out of his mouth. All he could think was, how could he do that to her? To the woman he vowed to spend the rest of his life with. His stomach hurt just from thinking about it.

Sarah Rees Brennan - Untold

She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

Amiel Sudario -

Expect nothing for no more heartbrakes.

Gregory David Roberts -

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.

Rick Riordan -

No demigod can heal your heart."Aphrodite to Reyna, at Charleston

Katya Polo - M: A Collection of Poems to Mark the End of an Era

I think a lover, when broken, is given a gift not a scar, not a poem, not a rhyme (unless it fits.) I think as humans, we see a set of hues but when wounded, we see something more: deeper shades of hurt and worry, colors never seen before. Because I can’t imagine a child could see the same black as a widower, and I don’t think healthy hearts know the true meaning of blue. When children close their eyes, they see a color they call empty. But in the eyelids of the bruised, the empty black’s a crow

Amiel Sudario -

No more heartbrakes, Your dead.

Amiel Sudario -

I love being alone when I Know Somebody make you smile.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel - Heartbreak's Reward

Jase opened his door, stepped down, and leaned into her window. “Hungry?”Taking a big breath didn’t help when his sexy scent of cologne had hit her in the face. Hallelujah. “Yeah, I’m getting there.” “Let’s go. The cowboy just came to take you away.” He reached in and turned off the ignition, clasped her keys and opened the door. When she stepped out, he didn’t bother to move back any and they were close. This man was hot and not only his temperature. Whatever kind of chemistry radiated off him,

Jandy Nelson - I'll Give You the Sun

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

Jandy Nelson - I'll Give You the Sun

My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier. Because I imagined it.

Kels Adeline Sapp -

This is the truth of the world: you can spend years devoting your time and love to someone. You can take care of them willingly and happily. You can think you know them as well as they know themselves. You can trust them entirely. But no one, absolutely no one, will ever change unless they want to, and some are incapable of change- no matter who they are, or what they meant to you. Broken people will always find a way to justify their selfish ways. There is no such thing as a promise.

Jodi Lynn Anderson - Tiger Lily

Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.

Lexi Ryan - Fall to You

Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone

Colleen Hoover - Maybe Someday

i hate that its my favorite thing to watch her, because it shouldn't be. It triggers all these what-ifs in my head, and my mind begins imagining things it shouldn't be imagining...

Rei Tōma - Vol. 9

These feelings...the ugly feelings in my heart...should have been blown away...and buried deep in the sands...

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

Rachel Van Dyken - Elicit

Today I gave you an hour. A year ago I would have given you an eternity.

Jennifer Elisabeth -

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.

Samantha Young - Smokeless Fire

I don't want this heart, it's split in two.

Colleen Hoover - Ugly Love

I didn't fall in love with you tate, I flew..

Colleen Hoover - Maybe Someday

people don't get to choose who they fell in love with. they only get to choose who they stay in love with..

Allie Burke - Paper Souls

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

J.E. Bolton - Best Thing I Never Had

Heartbreak comes in many forms: infidelity, lies, or a simple, old fashioned break-up. But, there's another reason no one ever thinks about when it comes to heartbreak. It's something that outweighs the fear of being alone, and tells the brokenhearted individual that he or she will never find love again.

Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.

Ali Harper -

Logan looked at her and wondered how someone so beautiful could be so oblivious to their own beauty, how someone so smart could be so foolish to the extent of their own intellect and how someone so loving and compassionate could ever think she wasn’t worthy of love? It was like watching a blind man trapped and wandering aimlessly and helplessly in a scorching hot desert unable to see the small puddle of water that lay just a foot away. The only difference was that she had eyes. Two beautiful one

Donna Lynn Hope -

Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is "you?" The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't?

Ali Harper - Breaking Bedlam

Logan felt like Icarus. He had never felt so free and blissfully alive as he did whenever he was with her. The closer he got to her the higher and happier he felt. Even at the mention of her name his heart would pound incessantly and all the giddy feelings he didn’t quite understand would suddenly reemerge. Every glance upon her blinding beauty cast a shadow upon every other girl for him. Everyone else paled in comparison to her. With every passing moment he had somehow discovered something new

Thisuri Wanniarachchi - The Terrorist's Daughter

As the doctors told him, he wanted to scream out loud and cry. He held his heavy head up and clenched his teeth and fists. “Men don’t cry,” his grandpa used to say. “Men don’t cry.” �8But he cried. Like a baby. He cried till he could feel cracks in his heart as he breathed. He cried till he knew he would never love again.

John Green - An Abundance of Katherines

Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K. I’m standing here sweating like I had hyperhidrosis, that disease where you sweat a lot. Crap. That’s not interesting. But anyway, it’s hot, and so I’m thinking about cold to stay cool. And I was remembering walking through the snow coming back from the ridiculous movie. Do you remember that, K? We were on Giddings, and the snow made it so quiet, I couldn’t hear a thing in the wo

Megan Abbott - Dare Me

Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?

Amanda Torroni -

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

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