Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Pompeo

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

Helen Rowland

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Helene Cixous

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Haruki Murakami

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

John Lothrop Motley

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

Bess Myerson

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Diana Krall

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Bo Sanchez

My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.

Brad Meltzer

She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Edmund Spenser

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Ally Carter

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Allen Ginsberg

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ann Brashares

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Ann Brashares

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Amy Winehouse

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

Deborah Cox

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Anne Sexton

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

Claire Danes

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

D. H. Lawrence

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

Alice Munro

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Anthony Burgess

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Robert Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken.

Thora Birch

I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Rosa Parks

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.