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Quotes About Heartbreak

He's going to break my heart again. The writing isn't just on the wall. It's inked into my soul.
~ Elizabeth Perry
No, it can't," I say. "It's— it's the kind of thing you want to say, that you want to believe, but it isn't— I know isn't true. I thought my heart knew things, but what I thought was real turned out to be a lie, and now I don't—
~ Elizabeth Scott
I broke my own heart once. I gave it to someone who I knew didn't want it, and had to take it back when he refused to hold it.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I feel almost, then, that I can hear within me the sound of my own heart breaking, the way you could hear outside in the open air-when the conditions were exactly right-the corn growing in the fields of my youth...You cannot hear my heart breaking, and I know that part is true, but to me, they are inseparable, the sound of growing corn and the sound of my heart breaking.
~ Elizabeth Strout
the sight of him then broke my heart. But I was used to that feeling—I had it almost every time after I saw him.
~ Elizabeth Strout
All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for what it is: just behavior.
~ Arthur Phillips
Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
And love? Well, if sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.
~ Augustus Hill
To be heartbroken means to have a story
~ Austin Wright
My heart is broken... I'm lying here My thoughts are choking On you my dear...
~ Avril Lavigne
She was a woman who'd foolishly married a handsome, smooth-talking man. Now she was living a bad country song.
~ B.J. Daniels
She was a joke, and the only man she'd ever loved now knew it.
~ B.J. Daniels
A forbidden love that ended badly.
~ B.J. Daniels
If he'd forgotten that shy twelve-year-old whose heart he'd broken, well, she'd be happy to remind him.
~ B.J. Daniels
I was nuts about him. Know what he did to me. First he gave me a phony name. Second, he was already married. Third, the minute the preacher said amen, he never did another tap of work. Then he stole my TV set and gave it to a car hop. When I asked him about that, he hit me with a chicken.
~ bacall lauren ii
I love reading books that can break my heart.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.
~ Britney Spears
A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.
~ Percy Sledge
The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.
~ Colleen Ballinger
So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them. . . . It broke his heart. —Genesis 6:6
~ Gary Chapman
Senderovsky to Ed: When I stopped falling in love. My art died.
~ Gary Shteyngart
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.
~ George Bernard Shaw