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Quotes About Heartbreak

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Is he … is Dimitri a Strigoi?" Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded. My heart shattered. My world shattered. You will lose what you value most.… It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value most. It had been his soul.
~ Richelle Mead
Yo te amé! Yo te amaba, y me destruiste. Te llevaste mi corazón y lo arrancaste. ¡Puedes decir que también me has estacado! Yo. Te. Amaba. Y tú me usaste todo el tiempo.
~ Richelle Mead
I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There was a burning, agonizing pain in my chest, and I had no idea how it could ever be filled.
~ Richelle Mead
In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.
~ Richelle Mead
And then he burned down the opera house," Miranda whispered. "He burned down the Rose." Ashley's gaze misted over. "Both Roses. He destroyed both Roses." For a long moment, they all seemed lost in their own thoughts. Then Parker spoke up. "Yeah." Tilting his chair back, he winked at Gage and Etienne. "That's the way to a girl's heart, all right. Give her poison, then burn down her house.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
I slept lightly, expecting Fern to awaken during the night missing her truelove. Not that I wanted Fern to be heartbroken. I didn't want her to love someone all her life and then not love or want them at all.
~ Rita Williams-Garcia
Each time our heart is broken, we should learn a lesson and not repeat the same mistakes. However, often there is nothing we could have done to save the relationship.
~ RJ Intindola
If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now.
~ Rob Sheffield
Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.
~ Robert Jordan
If only I'd thought of the right words I would have held onto your heart. If only I'd thought of the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart, all my pictures of you.
~ Robert Smith
Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
~ L.M. Montgomery
An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!
~ L.M. Montgomery
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken? It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
~ Larry McMurtry
Aurora could not recall that she had been precisely heartbroken - her heart had never had time to get focused exactly - but for several years thereafter she did feel that life was a comedown in some respects.
~ Larry McMurtry
She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.
~ Laura Ruby
What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Your first lover gets a piece of your heart until you have enough therapy to take it back.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks.
~ Sara Teasdale
Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.
~ Alexander Murdoch Mackay
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
~ William Shakespeare