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Quotes About Heartache

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.
~ bradley marion zimmer ii
and before you, I never really knew what lonely was. I can't go a day without feeling like I'm missing something. Truth is, I am missing something. I'm missing you..
~ Brandon Gommer
My life," Melody declared, "is a tragedy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Yes, I keep the flower," Kelsier said. "I'm not really sure why. But…do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger…and I still loved her. I still do.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You take the breath right out of me You left a hole where my heart should be
~ Breaking Benjamin
When we hear someone else sing about the jagged edges of heartache or the unspeakable nature of grief, we immediately know we're not the only ones in pain. The transformative power of art is in this sharing.
~ Brene Brown
The brokenhearted are the bravest among us-they dared to love.
~ Brene Brown
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or
~ Brene Brown
Heartbreak is what happens when love is lost.
~ Brene Brown
But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure. The
~ Brene Brown
I was in love.
~ Brenda Hiatt
Life can be taken out of others in rivulets and drops, in the small daily failures of inattention, that bitterest fruit of self-absorption, as surely as by terrible strokes to their hearts.
~ Brennan Manning
We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
~ Henry James
Nothing was a pleasure to her now; how could anything be a pleasure to a woman who knew that she had thrown away her life? There was an everlasting weight on her heart — there was a livid light on everything.
~ Henry James
You've not only dried up my tears; you've dried up my soul.
~ Henry James
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.
~ Henry Miller
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.
~ Henry Miller
I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me hack again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.
~ Henry Miller
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognise them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.
~ Henry Miller
I will forget her! All dear recollections Pressed in my heart, like flowers within a book, Shall be torn out, and scattered to the winds!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then, With their sagas of the seas.
~ Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
~ Judd Nelson
It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
~ Bob Hoskins