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Quotes About Heartbreak

At least I knew all about falling in love. It was the falling out that I couldn't manage.
~ Unknown
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
~ Oswald Chambers
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
~ Oswald Chambers
What happiness it seemed to me! How passionately I envied, as I passed, them; all shabby and shaggy though their coats might be I Some of these dogs, doubtless, were sometimes roughly treated; sometimes hungered, and smarted, and were footsore, and sun-heated. But they were free 1—and they had not to go through that dreary desolate pantomime of mimicked gayety, while their hearts were breaking!
~ Ouida
But a broken heart—God knows, I have found—doesn't actually kill you. And irony and disinterest are false protections, ones that won't serve us, or the earth, in the end.
~ Pam Houston
A Poem for a Trick Roses are red, Violets are blue Dumb ass nigguh I was never in love with U I peeped your game from the start That's why I never let you inside my heart couldn't let you tear it apart dumb bitch easy trick you made the mistake when you fell in love Then you had nerves to go around behind my back callin' me a trick While I went around your small dick Roses are red Violets are blue Dumb punk ass nigguh I used U
~ Unknown
When the heart is supple, it can be "broken open" into a greater capacity to hold our own and the world's pain: it happens every day. When we hold our suffering in a way that opens us to greater compassion, heartbreak becomes a source of healing, deepening our empathy for others who suffer and extending our ability to reach out to them.
~ Parker J. Palmer
If you hold your knowledge of self and world wholeheartedly, your heart will at times get broken by loss, failure, defeat, betrayal, or death. What happens next in you and the world around you depends on how your heart breaks. If it breaks apart into a thousand pieces, the result may be anger, depression, and disengagement. If it breaks open into greater capacity to hold the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the result may be new life.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Heartbreak can be like that, boy," said Zee heavily. "Healthy pain invites healing.
~ Patricia Briggs
Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.
~ Patricia McCormick
Stop thirsting for things that are bitter, Go crazy here, here in these arms that are still Wrapped around the absent shape of you, Go crazy with me, thrash about in our bed And weep and wail and call me by her name, At least have the courage to let our hearts break together.
~ Unknown
Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.
~ Patrick Marber
Who will remember Todd? Who will remember what he did? Todd - Todd - And my heart breaks even more - Breaks forever - And I fall to my knees in the snow and sand - And I yell out, wordless and empty - And I drop the weapon.
~ Patrick Ness
Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.
~ Patrick Ness
I thought Gudmund being taken away was the worst thing could ever happen to me, but it wasn't. The worst was finding out he was never really all mine in the first place. And so, for a moment, for a terrible, unbelievably shitty afternoon in a shitty little town on the shitty, freezing coast of Washington, I had nothing. There wasn't anything more, and the one good thing that was mine wasn't mine after all.
~ Patrick Ness
Being this close to her silence is like my heart breaking all over the place. I can feel it, like it's pulling me down into a bottomless pit, like it's calling for me to just fall and fall and fall.
~ Patrick Ness
And maybe, Adam thought, maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. Maybe they just keep on beating, until they're broken again, and then they keep on beating still.
~ Patrick Ness
My heart is broken, broken in a way that will never be healed, broken in a way that feels like it's going to kill me, too, right here on this stupid, freezing beach
~ Unknown
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I will break your heart over a fucking library card.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.
~ Unknown
But all the heart break of her heroins had not prepared her for her own.
~ Patti Smith
My view is that at your age you shouldn't worry too much about losing love. If it is right, it happens, its meant to be. The main thing is not to hurry, especially when your young and new to love. Love must come to both. Know for sure that nothing good, true and real gets away when it comes to love. And if it doesn't work out (for whatever reason) also know that God is closest to those of us with broken hearts.
~ Unknown