Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Miguel Indurain

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Eric Kripke

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Cassandra Clare

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

Ovid

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

Martha Gellhorn

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

Klaus Kinski

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

Keith Urban

...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...

Mitchell Baker

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Marilyn Monroe

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Marian Anderson

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Leon Redbone

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

Lajos Kossuth

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

Margaret Atwood

Love is the pursuit of shadows ...

Margaret Atwood

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Pink

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Paulo Coelho

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

Quintilian

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Mother Teresa

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

Leonard Cohen

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

Leonard Cohen

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

Leo Tolstoy

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Peter Gabriel

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.