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Quotes About Heartache

My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.
~ Rick Riordan
Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?" "Mmmm-hmmm," said Gloria. She closed her eyes. "I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.
~ Kate DiCamillo
There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart... And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Sometimes, it seemed like everybody in the world was lonely. I thought about my mama. Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where i felt like she should be.
~ Kate DiCamillo
How did anybody say goodbye to someone they loved? But that was what the world demanded, wasn't it? Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes. How could anyone bear it?
~ Kate DiCamillo
Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees. But then she would remember that she had a plan.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Mig watched her father walk away, the red table cloth billowing out behind him. He left his daughter. And, as you already know, he did not look back. Not even once.
~ Kate DiCamillo
If you have not left your home in the middle of the night without even giving it a backward glance; if you have not left your cat and your friends and also a one-eyed dog named Buddy without getting to tell any of them good-bye; if you have not stood on the side of the road in Georgia, somewhere just past the irrevocable state line, and waited for someone to come along and give you a ride, well, then you cannot understand the desperation that was in my heart that day.
~ Kate DiCamillo
How could people send their children away? How did anybody say goodbye to someone they loved? But that was what the world demanded, wasn't it? Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes. How could anyone bear it?
~ Kate DiCamillo
ONCE THERE WAS A PRINCESS WHO was very beautiful. She shone as bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." "Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. "Because," said Pellegrina, "she was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.
~ Kate DiCamillo
And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees.
~ Kate DiCamillo
The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before.
~ Kate Mosse
And he has tried to swim that stream, And he swam on both strong and steady, But the river was wide and strength did fail, And never more he'll see his Annie. And woe betide the willow wan, And woe betide the bush and briar, For they broke beneath her true love's hand, When strength did fail and limbs did tire.
~ Kate Thompson
I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.
~ Katherine Dunn
To be unloved is not easy.
~ Kathryn Lasky
She tried to sound casual and upbeat but in her heart she felt a sudden bleakness.
~ Katie Fforde
Not loving you—that would hurt more.
~ Kay Cornelius
It did the kind of lasting damage that only something that cuts so quick and deep to the heart can do.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Küçük bir k?z gördüm, eski iyi yürekli dünyay? göÄŸsüne yaslam??, art?k kalamayaca??n? yüreÄŸinde hissettiÄŸi bu dünyay? tutuyor, onu asla b?rakmas?n istiyordu.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Manager, I did all I could to learn Josie and had it become necessary, I would have done my utmost. But I don't think it would have worked out so well. Not because I wouldn't have achieved accuracy. But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach. The Mother, Rick, Melania Housekeeper, the Father. I'd never have reached what they felt for Josie in their hearts. I'm now sure of this, Manager?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro