Quotes About Heartache

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice.

Crushes do crush, looks do kill but love has come to show the difference

Jumbalaya,' [sic] 'Cold, Cold Heart,' 'You Win Again,' and 'Lovesick Blues

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

Being a Christian doesn't mean trouble never comes our way, Zach. It just means God is here, and He gives us the grace to get through the heartache.

Sometimes our biggest heartaches bring the most blessings.

And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can't.

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it "Because it is bitter, `And because it is my heart." Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

Passion is tragedy-in-waiting

Love is for fools and dreamers, who don't know better.

I know I will have to do the right thing and return her to her father, but it is ripping my heart apart.

Between them there was an aching void of forever-unspoken words - things that couldn't quite be said by either of them, perhaps things that couldn't be said at all. They were so close to each other that they could get no closer. This created enormous distance, which was heart-breaking but unutterable.

She sat on the toilet and cradled her aborted baby, as if it were alive. And her eyes were like an endless well where you could not see the bottom.

I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over...And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how things were without you and I'd done everything I could to keep you from knowing that

She stole a piece of my heart but I couldn't ask for a better place I'd rather be imprisoned.

their child is dead? Sure

My world fell away from me. Agony stabbed my chest.

I learned something about grief. When someone dies, it doesn't leave a hole, and that's the agony.

He felt like she was breaking him.

When Nell had undressed and put out the light she opened the window wide and lay looking out at the stars … and presently the moon rose from behind the hill like a great golden ball. Nell's head ached and her heart ached too. She was too unhappy to sleep.

I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.