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Quotes About Heartache

A world without love is a deadly place.
~ Helen Fisher
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller
Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'.
~ Helen Macdonald
cannot remember that my heart stopped beating at any particular time,' he wrote in his diary. 'The blow was so stunning, so final after six weeks of unremitting faith, that it was tempered to me as being beyond my appreciation. Death will be like this, something too vast to hurt much or perhaps even to upset me.' His
~ Helen Macdonald
She won't forget or recover, she is inconsolable.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
It's hard thinking about where they are taking us. While you're on the way there you think less of what lies ahead, but your heart is heavy when you start to think about how far you are from your family and if and when you might see them again. I haven't seen my sister once in five months.
~ Helen Rappaport
It was first love and it was painful. But it also had no future whatsoever.
~ Helen Rappaport
I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
~ Henri Barbusse
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
~ Henry Adams
You say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
She pondered: Was it worth the feelings of sadness and melancholy to make a friend and then lose him? Would she rather not have the heartache of losing a friend and not have the memory of friendship? No, she decided, no.
~ Henry Cole
We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well, But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.
~ Henry Lawson
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
~ Henry Rollins
He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
~ Henry Rollins
perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don't work anymore, the heater's broken.
~ Henry Rollins
They smile They will hurt you Turn inside Your only friend is inside They will cut your heart
~ Henry Rollins
What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love
~ Leo Tolstoy
Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards—for several years after—that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Your tears mean nothing! You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling! You are hateful to me, disgusting, a stranger—yes, a complete stranger!" With pain and wrath she uttered the word so terrible to herself—stranger.
~ Leo Tolstoy
because no one knew that she had only a few days ago refused a man whom she perhaps loved, and refused him because she trusted another.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Kitty looked into his face which was so near her own, and long after—for years after—that look so full of love which she then gave him, and which met with no response from him, cut her to the heart with tormenting shame.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.
~ Leon Redbone