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Quotes About Heartbreak

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
~ Emily Bronte
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
~ Emily Bronte
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
~ Philippa Gregory
The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.
~ Philippa Gregory
We are Plantagenets - we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.
~ Philippa Gregory
But you will break Anne's heart.' 'Her heart has to break and her spirit has to break if she is to be any use to her family.' My mother said coldly
~ Philippa Gregory
I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.
~ Philippa Gregory
To do one man's bidding to please another man and get nothing for yourself but heartbreak
~ Philippa Gregory
But Elizabeth and I are accustomed to loss, we are Plantagenets—we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am glad that I did not choose a martyr's death like Jane, and I am glad that I did not break my heart like Katherine. I am glad that I loved Thomas and that I know that I love him still. I am glad that Elizabeth did not destroy me, and that I defied her and never regretted it, and that my little life, as a little person, has been a life of greatness to me.
~ Philippa Gregory
Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley
I am sorry to say there will be no wedding today.
~ R.L. Stine
Her heart was breaking a little bit, because she felt something changing in Myrnin, and she knew that she would no longer be the center of his gravity. He'd always be there for her, and he'd always be her friend, but there was something in the way he held Jesse, stroked her hair, whispered to her in a way that Claire couldn't ever see him doing with her.
~ Rachel Caine
Contuvo el aliento, suspiró y sintió que su corazón se rompía de nuevo, en una forma totalmente nueva y hermosa.
~ Rachel Caine
He stood there for a long moment, the note in his hand, and just looked at her. At the undeniable heartbreak in her, and the dignity and the vulnerability. Then he pressed the note into Neksa's hand and said, Lesson learned. You shouldn't trust either of us. He was gone before she spoke again.
~ Rachel Caine
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
~ Rachel Cohn
Fuck her. Fuck her for getting in that cab. Fuck her for fucking with my mind. Fuck her for not knowing what she wants. Fuck her for dragging me into it. Fuck her for being such a fantastic kisser. Fuck her for ruining my favorite band. Fuck her for barely saying a word to me before she left. Fuck her for not waving. Fuck her for getting my hopes up. Fuck her for making my hopes useless. Fuck her for taking off with my fucking jacket. Fuck me.
~ Rachel Cohn
Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave
~ Rachel Cohn
It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.
~ Unknown
Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.
~ Dean Koontz
When you grow up, Jonah, women are gonna break your heart so often, you lose count.
~ Dean Koontz
At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me.
~ Debbie Macomber
I think Mr. Roarke's been burned. His tender heart was shattered by a careless affair that left him bleeding and raw.
~ Debbie Macomber
Lui avrebbe voluto chiederle che rumore fa un cuore quando si rompe per la gioia, quando è sufficiente la vista di qualcuno per riempirti come né il cibo, né il sangue, né l'aria potranno mai fare; quando ti senti come se fossi nato per vivere un momento preciso e quel momento, per qualche ragione particolare, era proprio quello.
~ Dennis Lehane