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Quotes About Heartbreak

My heart is breaking." "I can fix that," said Sam. She turned to him. He took hold of both of her hands, and kissed her.
~ Louis Sachar
Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Now, Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness, but at the sound of certain words which the old gentleman artfully introduced into his closing sentence, the broken heart gave an unexpected leap, and a green oasis or two suddenly appeared in the howling wilderness.
~ Louisa May Alcott
They both started laughing in that desperate high-pitched way people laugh when their hearts are broken.
~ Louise Erdrich
You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you haven't already found a woman who will break your heart, find one. What we played tonight, especially the Mozart, requires suffering.
~ Ron Rash
Parece mentira que el fin de un espejismo amoroso que tal vez sólo ha durado unas semanas pueda sumirte en semejante infierno.
~ Rosa Montero
So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.
~ Rudyard Kipling
How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.
~ Michelle J. Howard
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all these illusions destroyed.
~ Alexandre Dumas
We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.
~ Alice Hoffman
She read the color-coded series of Andrew Lang's fairy tales to her mother. They became lost in an enchanted cottage with vines growing over the window. It was dark and it was quiet and they could hear each other softly breathing. Every story had the same message: what was deep inside could only be deciphered by someone who understood how easily a heart could be broken.
~ Alice Hoffman
April certainly wasn't the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She'd been new and daring and exciting, but that had faded as time went on. Now she was just a girl who could easily be hurt.
~ Alice Hoffman
Here you are, Shelby tells Buddy. So now you know, she's not coming back. Not if you wait for a hundred years. She's left you and you're all alone, so get used to it.
~ Alice Hoffman
Pense uma vez antes de amar, duas antes de trair, três antes de partir um coração.
~ Alice Hoffman
That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also.
~ Alice Walker
A hundred years ago, people had perfectly understood that you could die of a broken heart, now they thought you were making a fuss about nothing…Certain kinds of suffering are like radiation: they cause furious growth and mutation of the inner self.
~ Amanda Craig
She'd done things to him he thought only happened to characters in country-western songs, laying waste to his car, his dogs, driving him from his home, and making an outlaw of him. It was almost funny.
~ Joe Hill
If you repeat a word again and again, it loses it's meaning. Apparently this also works with heartbreak.
~ Joey Comeau
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
~ Ben Kingsley
He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
~ Christina Rossetti
The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
~ David O. Russell