Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Nancy Thayer

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

Miguel Indurain

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

James Patterson

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

Ellen Pompeo

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

Ellen Pompeo

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

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.

Michael C. Hall

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

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.

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."

John Lothrop Motley

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

Leonard Cohen

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

Leonard Cohen

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

Julie Powell

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

Madame de Stael

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Haruki Murakami

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

Jessamyn West

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Leon Redbone

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

Mitchell Baker

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Marilyn Monroe

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Marian Anderson

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.