Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Aames

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

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!

Kelly Miller

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Liam Fox

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

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.

Tina Louise

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

Rosa Parks

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Thora Birch

I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Toni Morrison

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Victoria Woodhull

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

Rupert Brooke

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Rumi

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Stephen Crane

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

Suzanne Collins

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Susan Jeffers

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Travis Tritt

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

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.