Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Virgil

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Wayne Dyer

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.

Wallace Stegner

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Salma Hayek

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Spencer Bachus

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Victoria Woodhull

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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.

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.

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.

Keith Urban

...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...

Giotto di Bondone

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

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.