Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walker Percy

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Malcolm X

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

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?

Emily Bronte

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

Rachel McAdams

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

Lauren Conrad

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

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.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Gabrielle Zevin

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Henry Ward Beecher

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Bonnie Tyler

It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down

Charles Dickens

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

Charlotte Bronte

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart...

Charlotte Bronte

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

Charlotte Bronte

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

Carl Jung

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

Britney Spears

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Anais Nin

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

Anne Hathaway

I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Anne Hathaway

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Anne Hathaway

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Steven Dietz

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

Sam Kinison

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

Toni Morrison

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Sigmund Freud

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

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".

Lisa Kleypas

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