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Quotes About Heartbreak

This, then, is the story of what I learned. It is told in many voices, in words far more eloquent and raw than I could have thought on my own. It is a story of heartbreak and fear and regret. But mostly it is a warning. Violence comes in many forms- guns, fists, and words of hate and contempt. Unless we change the way we treat others in school and out, there will be more- and more horrible- tragedies.
~ Todd Strasser
I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.
~ Timothee Chalamet
If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The saddest part of my career has been missing the Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second.
~ P. T. Usha
I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.
~ Adrienne C. Moore
Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.
~ Kurt Elling
There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
~ Oscar Wilde
Mi bella Princesa, your funny little dwarf will never dance again. It is a pity, for he is so ugly that he might have made the King smile.' 'But why will he not dance again?' asked the Infanta, laughing. 'Because his heart is broken,' answered the Chamberlain. And the Infanta frowned, and her dainty rose-leaf lips curled in pretty disdain. 'For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. And
~ Oscar Wilde
I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was like she could see his heart through his eyes, and it was clear that she was breaking it—breaking him.
~ P.C. Cast
I'm sick of you cheating on me with everyone who has a dick
~ P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
How can losing love make you want to destroy people?
~ P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Have you lost the girl you love?' 'That's what I'm trying to figure out. I can't make up my mind. It all depends what construction you place on the words "I never want to see or speak to you again in this world or the next, you miserable fathead."' 'Did she say that?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Now look here, old friend, I said. I know your bally heart is broken and all that, and at some future time I shall be delighted to hear all about it, but - I didn't come to talk about that. No? Good egg! The past, said young Bingo, is dead. Let us say no more about it. Right-o! I have been wounded to the very depths of my soul, but don't speak about it. I won't. Ignore it. Forget it. Absolutely! I hadn't seen him so dashed reasonable for days.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I knew what it felt like. I was once in love myself with a girl called Elizabeth Shoolbred, and the fact that she couldn't stand me at any price will be recorded in my autobiography.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Bertie : [on Gussie] Any message for him? Roderick Spode - 8th Earl of Sidcup: Yes. Tell him I'm going to break his neck. Bertie : Break his neck, right. And, if he should ask why? Roderick Spode - 8th Earl of Sidcup : He knows why. Because he is a butterfly, who toys with women's hearts and throws them away like soiled gloves! Bertie : Do butterflies do that? Roderick Spode - 8th Earl of Sidcup : Are you trying to be funny?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.
~ Pablo Neruda
from Poems by Pablo Neruda Tonight I can write the saddest lines Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.
~ Pablo Neruda
Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
~ Pat Conroy
I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.
~ Daniel Handler