Heartbreak Quotations

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

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.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

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.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

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.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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

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

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

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.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Words cannot describe the heartbreak. We will not rest until we catch this murderer.

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...

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

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.

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!

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

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

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.

I eye 'Modern Love' warily between that second and third cup of coffee on Sunday mornings, calculating how much of a push I need to get through the day's unhurriedly earnest saga of heartbreak and recovery.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

We can learn from their heartache just as they learned from ours in Hugo.

Today, history is being written by the valiant men and women of America's armed forces and by determined citizens who will do all they can to win this test of wills ? for that is what it is ? to keep our children from experiencing the heartbreak and terror of Sept. 11,

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history and has caused unimaginable devastation and heartbreak throughout the Gulf Coast region. A vast coastline of towns and communities has been decimated,

I watched the heartbreak the last two years and everyone said we couldn't beat Michigan. When there was 1 second left, I kept looking around and wondering, 'Where's the Jug?

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

We ended up building a little Japan with cobblestone streets, bridges, a river, period buildings and antique props in Ventura, ... For the final scenes, we filmed in Kyoto temples that had never allowed filming before. But all throughout, we have tried to pay great respect to Japanese culture. I found the story very daunting to tell, as an American. I especially wanted to honor the profession because a lot of people in the West still don't know what geishas really are. The challenge for me was to bring a beautiful fable to life, to lift the veil on the beauty, joy and heartbreak of being a geisha.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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

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.

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

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.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

This season of American Idol is already the most watched and should be interesting to say the least. In keeping with previous years, there's sure to be controversy, heartbreak and triumph, all of the ingredients that give Idol the massive following it continues to enjoy. Everyone bets, but viewer voting can make the outcome so difficult to predict and is what makes betting so much fun.

Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.

One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.

They ran on Heartbreak Hill. They knew every crack, every crevice of the course. But we didn't want to run the Boston Marathon before we ran the Boston Marathon.

There's a lot of heartbreak and, at the same time, relief, especially for the families now that closure can start to begin.

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope... all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect... who might be searching for us.

It's a test of ultimate willThe heartbreak climb uphillGot to pick up the paceIf you want to stay in the raceMore than just blind ambitionMore than just simple greedMore than just a finish lineMust feed this burning need

I tried to be a lot more personal with the lyrics. Some of them are definitely about heartbreak and girls, but a lot of them are about my father and his battles with alcoholism. That's how I like to listen to bands. I would like to know that the singer was actually going through that.

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

Despite all the things we all experience, like heartbreak and pain, it takes being able to get through it to realize the beauty of life. All the negative makes you realize the things that matter. It puts the petty things in perspective.

I want to get the information in your hands so your kids don't have to go through the kind of heartbreak some of us have to had to deal with.

It will justify and legitimize our position. Every time we have been there it has either been heartbreak or an embarrassment.

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

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

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.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

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

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

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

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.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

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.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

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

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.