Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Janeane Garofalo

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

Jane Rule

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Cassandra Clare

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

Hart Crane

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

Graham Nelson

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

Klaus Kinski

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Giacomo Casanova

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Jessamyn West

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jason Mraz

I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).

Hillary Clinton

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

Hannah Kent

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

Ginnifer Goodwin

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Gerald Brenan

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Harry Crews

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

John Green

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

Joyce Carol Oates

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

Joyce Carol Oates

She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis Carroll

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

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.