Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Neruda

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

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.

Michael C. Hall

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

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.

Lauryn Hill

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Johnny Depp

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

John Selden

Marriage is a desperate thing.

James Russell Lowell

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Henry Rollins

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Eric Kripke

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

Joichi Ito

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

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.

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.

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.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Robert Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken.

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.

Virgil

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

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Winona Ryder

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?