Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Akhmatova

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Claire Danes

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

D. H. Lawrence

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Anne Sexton

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

Alice Munro

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Amy Winehouse

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Deborah Cox

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Douglas Sirk

You have to think with the heart.

Anthony Burgess

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

Bo Sanchez

My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.

James Patterson

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Helen Rowland

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Helene Cixous

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Ernest Hemingway

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

Ernest Hemingway

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Henry Miller

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

George Michael

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Jennifer Weiner

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Christopher Columbus

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

George Edward Woodberry

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Francine Pascal

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.