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Quotes About Heartache

A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.
~ Jardine Libaire
Love is like whoa! Actually, it's closer to woe.
~ Jarod Kintz
They say it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. I disagree.
~ Jason Pinter
Don't get me wrong, Mallory. She's a good person. She has a big heart. And she would do anything for Teddy's well-being. But this is not the life I wanted. I never signed on for any of this.
~ Jason Rekulak
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years,to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who's trying not to laugh at somebody who's trying not to cry
~ E.E. Cummings
She looked at him; she did not speak. He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life. His feelings had nothing in them to make him silent.
~ Edith Hamilton
She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.
~ Edith Wharton
But there was something more miserable still—it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years.
~ Edith Wharton
and my heart tightened for the hard compulsions of the poor.
~ Edith Wharton
He oft finds med'cine who his grief imparts But double grief afflicts concealing harts
~ Edmund Spenser
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
~ Edna Ferber
I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women.
~ Edna O'Brien
There are a lot of sad stories. It seems like everybody has one to tell.
~ Edward Bloor
Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .
~ Albert Smith
Los seres que se aman se pierden, y resulta menos doloroso no amar a nadie.
~ Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Para que las palabras no basten es preciso alguna muerte en el corazón
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Estado peligroso de fatiga, insomnio y palpitaciones cardíacas. Me siento muerta, mejor dicho, un peso muerto, algo enormemente pesado, no mi cuerpo sino esto que se llama yo. Hasta cuando me llaman por mi nombre, hasta cuando dicen Alejandra, me siento caer sin fuerzas para sobrellevar mi nombre y con muchas menos fuerzas, aún, para responder a la llamada.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Isabel's indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Then she would faint once more and come to once more, only to relive new torments. My heart cannot bear to describe her ordeal any longer: An overwhelming sorrow makes me skip to the end of that journey, which lasted for more than four hours, after which we will still have some more agonizing hours to endure. Let us go now to the castle where the unhappy girl was being taken.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Love does not forget!
~ Alex Flinn
So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had." I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.
~ Alex Flinn
but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her
~ Alex Flinn