Broken Heart Quotes

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

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

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

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

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

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.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: 'you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

I know they say the first love is the sweetest but that first cut is the deepest

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

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

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.