Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Kinison

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

Pema Chodron

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Taylor Swift

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Taylor Swift

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

Toni Morrison

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Steven Dietz

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Truman Capote

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

Walker Percy

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Henry David Thoreau

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Jeffrey Eugenides

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

George R. R. Martin

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Henri Barbusse

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

George Eliot

No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

Cassandra Clare

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

Moliere

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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.

Gloria Steinem

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Marcel Proust

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

Emily Bronte

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Henry Ward Beecher

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Merle Shain

One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Malcolm X

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

Louisa May Alcott

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

Lauren Conrad

The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

Gabrielle Zevin

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.