Broken Heart Quotes
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.- Missy Altijd
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.- Author Unknown
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.- Bess Myerson
Love is unconditional, relationships are not.- Grant Gudmundson
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.- Jean de La Fontaine
It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can't live without you.- Author Unknown
God is closest to those with broken hearts.- Jewish Saying
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.- Jean Giraudoux
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.- Lamartine
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.- Marcus Aurelius
...Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes
Lost every day, no map to follow
Entire days, weeks, a blur
Flickers of light, in the darkness,
Only to be enveloped in shadows once more...- Peter Winstanley
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.- Mignon McLaughlin
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.- Richard Wilbur
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.- Author Unknown
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.- Rosa Parks
I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.- Edmund Spenser
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.- Unknown
If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.- Thomas Otway
Walking, working, barely breathing
My thoughts, far away
Heart aching, mind racing
Sleep does not come easily, nor last long...- Peter Winstanley
If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.- Unknown Author
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. - Unknown
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. - Unknown
aloneonbeach-webSadness flies away on the wings of time.-Jean de La Fontaine
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. -Missy Altijd
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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. -Rosa Parks
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. -Jean Giraudoux
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. -Lamartine
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead.Alone, most strangely, I live on. -Rupert Brooke
sadsilhouette-webWhen love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. -Author Unknown
I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. -Edmund Spenser
Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. -Author Unknown
[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. -T.E. Kalem
If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.
-Thomas Otway
Bad as I like ye, it’s worse without ye. -Irish Proverb
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. -Author Unknown
Cupid with a Broken Heart
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
-Algernon Charles Swinburne
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens
The Main thing is not to hurry.
Nothing good gets away. -John Steinbeck
My love lies bleeding. -Thomas Campbell
God is closest to those with broken hearts. -Jewish Saying
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.- Unknown
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops, and posting it.-Amy Lowell, The Letter
It’s not love’s going hurts my days, But that it went in little ways.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. -From the television show The Wonder Years
My joy was skipping
Around our love
It tripped.-Valentine Sterling
They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. -E. Wilder
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -Charlie Brown
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. -J.K. Rowling
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. -Antonio Porchia, Voces
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
-George Gordon, Lord Byron, Maid of Athens
rainbow-webLet no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow. -James Matthew Barrie
As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you. -Toto
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. -Kay Knudsen
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
-William Shakespeare, Sonnet XLIII
Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? -Richard Bach
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. -Claudia Ghandi
Within you I lose myself…
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.-Author Unknown
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. -Emily Dickinson,
deadtreebluesky-webGone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. -Alfred Tennyson
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. -Richard Wilbur
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. -Robert Southey
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
-W.S. Merwin
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. -William Cowper
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
-George Linley
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. -John Dryden
aboutadog-webLife is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
-Henry Alford
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. -Tryon Edwards
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. -Alcibiades
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. -Hans Nouwens
I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart. -Albany Bach Reid
You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. -Jaesse Tyler
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. -Author Unknown
To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. -George Lansdowne
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
-Ben Jonson
sadangel-webThe joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? -Nicholas Rowe
We only part to meet again. -John Gay
Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends. -Richard Bach
Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. -Author Unknown
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. -Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. -Norman Cousins
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -Eric Hoffer
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.-Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.-Henry Maudsley
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Kahlil Gibran
Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. -Eileen Mayhew
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. -Kurt Vonnegut
blkwhitesadgirl-webHeaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.-Charles Dickens
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.-John Vance Cheney
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. -Christian Nevell Bovee
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.-William Shakespeare
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. -Golda Meir
Tears are Summer showers to the soul. -Alfred Austin, Savonarola
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. -Steel Magnolias
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. -Jewish Proverb
I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I’m really crying. Crying just isn’t crying unless it’s messy. -D.H. Mondfleur
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry. -Jean Rhys
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. -Henry Ward Beecher
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. -Marlene Dietrich
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -Lewis B. Smedes,
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -Paul Boese
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -Antoine Rivarol
If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.-Robert Brault
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. -George Herbert
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. -Sydney Harris
Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. -Roberto Assagioli
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. -E.H. Chapin
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.-Oscar Wilde
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. -George Bernard Shaw
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.-François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. -Lawrence Durrell
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. -William Penn
Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.-Dorothy Parker
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -Josh Billings
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. -Harold Coffin
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -Mark Twain
As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. -Antisthenes
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. -Ovid
Tears are the silent language of grief. -Voltaire
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. -George Eliot
Jealousy is a crutch. -C. Astrid Weber
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. -Honore de Balzac
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. -William Arthur Ward
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.-William Shakespeare, Othello
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.-Dorothy Dix
Envy is ignorance. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.-William Shakespeare, Othello
I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying. -Amborella Oltre
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. -Ovid
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. -Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. -Havelock Ellis
If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. -Danish Proverb
No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive.
I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.
Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. -Leslie Grimutter
If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. -Mark Twain
Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
A day without you is like a day without sunshine… I miss you…
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
You may be out of my sight… but never out of my mind… I Miss You!
Although we’ve come to the end of the road, still I can’t let you go, it’s unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you .When I miss you, I don’t have to go far … I just have to look inside my heart because that’s where I’ll find you. Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. -Harriet Nelson
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.-Washington Irving
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.-Harold Lokes
The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.-Anonymous
You never lose by loving. You always lost by holding back.-Anon
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Kahlil Gibran
Jealousy… is a mental cancer. -B.C. Forbes
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.-Anais Nin
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…-William Butler Yeats
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.-Samuel Butler
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.-Washington Irving
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.-William Blake
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.-Javan
The hottest love has the coldest end.-Socrates