Quotes About Heartache

It was a difficult day. Disorienting. What is it they say? Death, divorce, and moving are the three most stressful events for your heart. And your psyche, too, I'll wager.

Was it the day you realized your parents aren't perfect? When you got your first long trousers? Going to school? Saying hello? Saying goodbye? Your heart opens? It breaks? It heals? It breaks again? Which is it?

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.

Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding To a bride with a paper ring And half of my heart is the part of a man Who's never truly loved anything

I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.

Love is messy and complicated and unfair.

She's leaving them behind. The agony of this is exquisite. There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love.

Because Tarik was dead.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

David's hand rest on Sebastien's shirt front and cravat, over where his heart would have beat when he still lived. The pressure felt like a trap, suddenly, and Sebastien pulled away and stood, flicking his suitjacket straight, with his thumbs.

Great passion led so easily to great tragedy.

A wild, sleepless sorrow hovered inside my chest.

In her eyes I saw the pain that comes from regrets that will never be lifted.

You and I are enough to break anyone's heart—how can we not break our own?

It was the simplest thing to do, loving someone, only it was the hardest thing, too, because it hurt.

I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

Cuanto más amas, más te lastima. Lo que es peor, lo lastimas a él así como a ti misma.

Experience had taught me not to get close to guys who fell in love with Liza. I had been burned twice and I knew I couldn't compete. It didn't matter that I could no longer give a guy access to my sister; if Mike knew who I was, I'd be access to romantic memories of her. He'd start looking for traits and signs of her in me. And I wasn't setting myself up for that kind of heartache.

And what is love but a four-letter word for trouble?

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.

The more she loved, the more she ached.

The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.