Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chief Joseph

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

Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Diana Krall

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Bess Myerson

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Bertolt Brecht

Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Charlotte Bronte

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Charles Simeon

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

William Shakespeare

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Diane Warren

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Diane Warren

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

Brian Perkins

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Brad Meltzer

She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.

Jane Green

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

Ashlee Simpson

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

David Justice

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Ally Carter

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Allen Ginsberg

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ann Brashares

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Ann Brashares

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Andrea Gibson

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

Abraham Cahan

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Antonio Porchia

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Bruce Lee

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Edmund Spenser

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

Eckhart Tolle

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.