Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart...

Charlotte Bronte

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

Charlotte Bronte

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

Charles Dickens

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

Jane Addams

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Jonathan Franzen

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Elijah Wood

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Britney Spears

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

Carl Jung

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

William Shakespeare

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Edna St. Vincent Millay

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

August Strindberg

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Orson Scott Card

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Robert Burns

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Agatha Christie

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

Alexandra Adornetto

Never love that which you cannot keep.

Annie Lennox

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Anais Nin

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

Anne Hathaway

I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Anne Hathaway

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Anne Hathaway

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Ann Aguirre

No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.

Bonnie Tyler

It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down

Cassandra Clare

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

Jodi Picoult

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Rachel McAdams

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

Ilka Chase

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Margaret Atwood

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Lorrie Moore

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

E. B. White

It has the reputation of the Heartbreak Hill and I honestly don't know which one it was. There was never one moment where you had a super steep hill or long hill, but the location of them in the race made it especially hard.