Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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".

Moliere

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Jack Kerouac

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Lauren Conrad

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

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.

Madame de Stael

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Kami Garcia

I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

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.

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.

Lorrie Moore

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

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.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Tom Cruise

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

Nina Simone

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

Mignon McLaughlin

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

Mariah Carey

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

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.

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.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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.

Lisa Kleypas

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

Laura Esquivel

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

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.