Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

Margaret Atwood

Love is the pursuit of shadows ...

Margaret Atwood

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Lajos Kossuth

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

Patsy Cline

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Oscar Wilde

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Ovid

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

Martha Gellhorn

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

George Michael

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

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.

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?

Willie Aames

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

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.

Yoko Ono

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

William Osler

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.