Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Kripke

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Mariah Carey

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Maya Angelou

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Rosa Parks

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.

Mother Teresa

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

Peter Gabriel

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

Peter Russell

Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.

Phyllis McGinley

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Suzanne Collins

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.

Thora Birch

I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Toni Morrison

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Tina Louise

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

Sylvia Plath

The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

Sylvia Plath

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.

Rupert Brooke

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Rumi

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Stephen Crane

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Susan Jeffers

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Kelly Miller

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Liam Fox

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

Travis Tritt

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Pink

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Quintilian

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Sandra Bullock

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Rod McKuen

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Sarah McLachlan

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Sara Teasdale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Robert Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken.