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When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.
Sep 10, 2025
That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.
I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.
I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.
I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.
Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.
Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.
We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.
I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.
Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, "Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night." And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.
Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
The heart was made to be broken.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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.
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.