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Quotes About Heartbreaking

Qibli to see the heartbreaking look that swept across her face. She glanced down at her talons and
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.
~ Sidney Lumet
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before.
~ Clive Barker
The Moses of her people had fallen in the hour of his triumph. His tragic death was all the more heartbreaking because he had not lived to enjoy the peace he had toiled so long to achieve.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
~ Edward Abbey
I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.
~ Ryan Hall
It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house-like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared to see death but not the clothes in the tree.
~ Philip Roth
The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very accessible because it is so heartbreakingly human.
~ Ron Howard
I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
~ Paddy Considine
The edgy style keeps people at a distance and changes the standards by which she will be judged. That's clever and heartbreaking at the same time.
~ Rachel Caine
That sounded so incredibly romantic. Of course, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had thought the same thing in Titanic . And look how that had ended.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Skyrocketing prescription drug costs are jeopardizing the health and financial security of Central Virginia seniors and families - and the personal stories of my constituents are truly heartbreaking.
~ Abigail Spanberger
People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
~ Donna Tartt
it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle. p28
~ Donna Tartt
I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?
~ Jacqueline Woodson
It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.
~ Holly Goldberg Sloan
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.
~ Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Extremely tragic is a good description of you.
~ Osamu Dazai