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Broken Hearts Quotes

My love*lies*bleeding.
Thom�s C�mpbell

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

Let your joy scream �cross the p�in.
Ezbeth Wilder

P�in is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey

As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.
Toto

Let your tears come. Let them w�ter your soul.
Eileen Mayhew

To weep is to m�ke less the depth of grief.
Willi�m Shakespeare

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Osc�r Wilde

God is closest to those with broken hearts.
Jewish Saying

Love is uncondition�l, relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson

The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.
Uniek Sw�in

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Author Unknown

The sc�rs you can’t see are the hardest to heal.
Astrid Al�ud�

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Richard Wilbur

The w�y to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Anonymous

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.
Adabella Radici

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
Jaesse Tyler

It is some relief to weep; grief is s�tisfied and carried off by tears.
Ovid

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Jewish Proverb

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

It is such a secret place, the l�nd of tears.
Antoine*de*S�int-Exupery

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T.E. Kalem

Doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Fr�n�ois*Duc de L� Rochefoucauld-1665

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Alexandrovich

You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.
Stelle Atwater

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
Television Show-The Wonder Years

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.
Author Unknown

A life with love will have some thorns, but � life without love will have no roses.
Anonymous

The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
Anonymous

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
Mignon McLaughlin-1960

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
John Aughey

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, �s though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero

The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.
Anonymous

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
Anonymous

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
Brendan Francis

It hurts to breathe because every breath I t�ke proves I can’t live without you.
Anonymous

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Lamartine

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
Author Unknown

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you’re gone I just feel bloated.
Carrie L�tet

Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.
Violeta Parra

They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.
Ezbeth Wilder

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
M�x Lerner-1950

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning �nd out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Gir�udoux

Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
Buddy Buie & J.R. Cobb

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell-Literary Essays

Old times never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.
George E. Woodberry

When one door closes �nother door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Rupert Brooke

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
Edmund Spenser

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
Author Unknown

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
Television Show-The Wonder Years

Nothing t�kes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

Let no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Matthew Barrie

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens-1860

I’m holding a te�rdrop for a friend ! Until his heartache and misery end.
Jaesse Tyler

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Antoine Rivarol

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Samuel Johnson

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Colette

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf-1929

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, �nd you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks

I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
Missy Altijd

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
Author Unknown

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.
The Quotes Junction

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, �nd two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin-1966

Relationships are like gl�ss. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
Author Unknown

Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, �ll the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.

Author Unknown
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates

It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.
Anonymous

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
Anonymous

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
Anonymous

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
Anonymous

The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.
Anonymous

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Anonymous

Love is unconditional, relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier

A mighty pain to love it is,
And ’tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Lokes

The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.
Anonymous

You never lose by loving. You always lost by holding back.
Anon

My love is of a birth as rare
As �tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.
Andrew Marvell

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Anonymous

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.
Rita Rudner

The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates

It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye.
Anonymous

I ne’er can love another
As long as life may stand.
No maid the wide world over
Shall hold this heart or hand.
Anonymous

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I daresay she will do.
Rupert Brooke

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
Anonymous

The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James Matthew Barrie

Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
William S. Gilbert

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…
William Butler Yeats

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
William Blake

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Javan

3 Comments

  1. Jeff Atkinson says:

    You know, I have to tell you, I really enjoy this blog and the insight from everyone who participates. I find it to be refreshing and very informative. I wish there were more blogs like it. Anyway, I felt it was about time I posted, I?ve spent most of my time here just lurking and reading, but today for some reason I just felt compelled to say this.

  2. steph says:

    I had my heart broken by the same guy four times but the lesson i learnt was that hes never gna change but i am so i need to live with the memories but create new ones even tho i know ill be with sum1 else nd thy wil be holding me and in my mind il still hav the memory of him

  3. shani and alicia rawr says:

    Your arms were my shelter, your heart was my home, and i was your life.

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