Quotes About Heartbreak

Oh Christopher, she thought, burying her face in her hands again, why? Why did you have to turn out this way? Or why did you not show yourself in your true colors before I was foolish enough to love you?

She had loved him mindlessly, passionately, for the following five years, until he had told her that he was going away and never coming back. And even beyond that she had loved him, painfully and against her will, until she had finally forced herself to forget. Or to tell herself that she had forgotten.

Please believe me, darling, it will break my heart in two to leave you here. But I cannot take you. I must go quickly. Please understand.

After you have broken my heart and left me, I will remember that we are always and ever connected.

In his own soul, he knew with sudden certainty that it was not rebellion or doubt or even sin that broke God's heart; it was indifference.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day.

Estevan took off his shirt and lay back against the front of the boat, his hands clasped behind his head, exposing his smooth Mayan chest to the sun. And to me. How could he possibly have done this, if he had any idea how I felt? I knew that Estevan had walked a long, hard road beyond innocence, but still he sometimes did the most simple, innocent, heartbreaking things.

Age-old heartbreak of this place, your great successes fly away, your failures stick around.

The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.

Young lovers are always doomed.

I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

Only love can break your heart.

The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.

I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!