Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Barbusse

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Frank Ocean

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

George Eliot

No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

George R. R. Martin

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

Lorrie Moore

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

Merle Shain

One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Mignon McLaughlin

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

Nina Simone

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

Tom Cruise

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

Jodi Picoult

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

E. B. White

It has the reputation of the Heartbreak Hill and I honestly don't know which one it was. There was never one moment where you had a super steep hill or long hill, but the location of them in the race made it especially hard.

Jack Kerouac

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Toni Morrison

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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?

Malcolm X

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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.

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

Pema Chodron

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Marcel Proust

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

Will Eisner

You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Taylor Swift

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Taylor Swift

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

Mariah Carey

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

Louisa May Alcott

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