Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

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

Janeane Garofalo

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

Jane Rule

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Ernest Hemingway

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

Ernest Hemingway

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Henry Miller

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

Christopher Columbus

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Jennifer Weiner

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

George Edward Woodberry

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Francine Pascal

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

Nicolas Roeg

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Oscar Wilde

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Michael C. Hall

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Mignon McLaughlin

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

John Woolman

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

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.

Patsy Cline

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Jodi Picoult

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

Ovid

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

George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Hannah Kent

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

Ginnifer Goodwin

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Gerald Brenan

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.