Quotes About Heartache

People rarely spoke of a breakup as tragic; instead, breakups were part of life. But when you and the other person broke up, you could look for them everywhere, and maybe you would physically find them, but even if they were the same person, they were not for you; they were not yours. The evaporation of love was like a kind of death.

Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.    Walking

There's a hundred ways sex can ruin you, but there's no end to the ways love can.

Because there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.

I didn't fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I'd fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I'd vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.

Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash. And sometimes it can leave nothing.

There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn't want you enough to keep you, but who doesn't love you enough to let you go.

So you reach this moment where finally, finally, it all shifts, you find a way to open up your hands and let go. When what used to matter stops breaking you so fucking hard; when you accept that empty place in your heart will always be there because only one person can fill it, and you get up anyway because goddamn it, one person who does not love you enough should never make you incapable of moving forward.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. —Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending

There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she'd barely given the memories of him a second's worth of her time.

Sometimes you love someone who can't give you what you want, so what can you do but love them enough to let them go?

I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to worry about missing each other all the time. But when I think about that, I get sick. Physically sick. Like I seriously throw up. I need to be with him, even if I can't, like, be with him.

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe Your own crocodile lies.

Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

Tests of love always end badly.

See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.

She misses him more now than when he was away

If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over their love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

Does she belong to you, Finnikin?" Yata asked, her eyes piercing. "No," he said after a moment. "But she belongs to my heart. I feel her absence strongly and it brings me . . . sorrow.

Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love

And it hurts to be feeling this much

People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.

Because I want to feel something other than this emotional crap