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Quotes About Heartbreak

It's funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.
~ Robert M. Drake
Cuando uno es repudiado por el principal objeto de su amor, es fácil que se le instale la sensación general de estar de sobra;
~ Javier Marías
Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
~ Jay McInerney
Rompre avec les choses réelles, écrit Chateaubriand, ce n'est rien. Mais rompre avec les souvenirs !… Le cœur se brise à la séparation des rêves. »
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Jane breaking Jérôme's heart
~ Jeanne Birdsall
I stopped walking and wrapped my arms tightly around him. You know I can hear your heart. Could you hear it breaking when I accused you of getting my cartoon pulled? he asked. I held my head back so I could look him directly in the eye. I didn't pull it. You couldn't have, he replied, because I did.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? 
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's something about a showgirl that always breaks my heart. Youth and beauty-they're such a short lease, girlie.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Whenever you are faced with the prospect of purchasing gloves, you must ask yourself if you would be bereft to lose one of them in the back of a taxicab. If not, then don't buy them. You should only buy gloves so beautiful that to lose one of them would break your heart.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman in front of you, my friend. And you are still a man. It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to become complicated. And love is always complicated. But still humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Autoritativno, poput lije?nice, na prste je nabrojala šest sastavnica pouzdane terapije za slomljeno srce: Vitamin E, mnogo spavati, piti mnogo vode, otputovati daleko od osobe koju si volio, meditirati i objasniti srcu da je to njegova sudbina.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
All lovers, even the most faithful lovers, are vulnerable to abandonment against their will. I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Chérie, je suis Brésilien du sud. Je peux passer dix ans avec le coeur brisé à cause d'une femme que je n'ai même pas embrassée.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
In India, just so you know, May 3 is National Broken Hearts Day. And in Papua New Guinea, there exists a tribe whose men write mournful love songs called namai, which tell the tragic stories of marriages which never came to pass but should have.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Darling," she said and caught his face between her hands, making him meet her eyes. He didn't want to. He didn't like the look in her eyes—a grim determination. "I love you," she whispered and his soul soared until she uttered her next words. "But I must leave you." "No." He clutched at her hips as if he were a child of three refusing to give up his toy sword. "No." "Yes," she replied.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Gee whiz, it's all fucking heart- breaking
~ Alice Notley
it makes me shiver like a dead soldier returning his empty clothes to his bride but she's married someone else
~ Alice Oswald
He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...
~ Alicia Keys