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Quotes About Heartache

Alison: I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Any more. I can't take it on. Cliff: You're too young to start giving up. Too young, and too lovely.
~ John Osborne
I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
~ John Suckling
Kids are just a needle in your heart.
~ Elizabeth Strout
He wept when they told him you were no longer allowed to see him. He WEPT. How much weeping have you done on his account, girl?" "I wake up screaming every night on his account.
~ Elizabeth Wein
For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.
~ Elizabeth Zimmerman
Henry knows it won't be a stray bullet for him, like the one that took his father. It'll be a broken heart. The drug overdoses, the traffic accidents, the little boy running into the street after his ball, the old man freezing to death in an alleyway with nowhere else to go. They will erode Paul, like water wearing down stone, until there's nothing left.
~ Ellen Datlow
I think some people call this love. I call it hell.
~ Ellen Schreiber
'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.
~ Ellie Goulding
She'd always thought that a broken heart sounded rather romantic. But in truth it was physical. Her whole chest ached, as if she'd been struck with a knife. With all her witless calculations about how to make a man desire her, she'd never realized that the most important thing was to make him like her. Or even love her. What a fool she was.
~ Eloisa James
They were talking about things that didn't matter a fig, not with the huge yawning grief burning a hole in his chest because of what had happened to her. To Josie. His Josie, now.
~ Eloisa James
It was awful, this love.
~ Eloisa James
Come, tears, confound,' he cried. 'Out, sword, and wound the left breast of Pyramus. Ay, that left breast where his heart doth hop.
~ Eloisa James
God, I've missed you so much
~ Eloisa James
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
~ Elvis Costello
Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.
~ Elvis Presley
I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.
~ Elvis Presley
Cînd ai cunoscut amaraciunile si dulceata lor, îti pare rau ca n-ai decît o inima de sfarîmat.
~ Emil Cioran
I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.
~ Emilie Autumn
It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...
~ Emily Giffin
Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don't have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.
~ baker nicholson iii
When my bed get empty, make me feel awful mean and blue.
~ baldwin james x
Épouses nous sommes trahies. Amantes, nous sommes délaissées.
~ Balzac, Honoré de
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
A lover should die after a long lifetime. I lost Hitoshi at the age of twenty, and I suffered from it so much that I felt as if my own life had stopped. The night he died, my soul went away to some other place and I couldn't bring it back. It was impossible to see the world as I had before. My brain ebbed and flowed, unstable, and I passed the days in a relentless state of dull oppression.
~ Banana Yoshimoto