Heartbroken Quotes

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

-- T.E. Kalem

A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.

-- Author Unknown

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

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

-- Norman Cousins

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

-- James Russell Lowell

My love-lies-bleeding.

-- Thomas Campbell

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

-- Charles M. Schulz

"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

Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.

-- Anonymous

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

-- Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

-- Jean de La Fontaine

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

-- Author Unknown

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

-- Virginia Woolf

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

-- Gwyneth Paltrow

The weirdest thing happened the other morning...I woke up with tears in my eyes...and one rolling down my cheek...and I knew I must have been dreaming of you again.

-- Author Unknown

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

-- Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.

-- Author Unknown

There are times when I cant decide whether to see you or not, I want to see you because I miss you but there are times when I dont want to see you because everytime I do, the fact that you dont see me the way that I see you hurts me even more ...

-- Author Unknown

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

There's a lot to be said for self delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

-- Oprah Winfrey

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.

-- Author Unknown

When one door closes another 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

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

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

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

-- Jan Glidewell

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.

-- Patsy Cline

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

-- Helen Rowland

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

-- Author Unknown

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.

-- Rosa Parks

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

-- Antoine Rivarol

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

-- Rupert Brooke

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

-- Anonymous

If we must part forever,

Give me but one kind word to think upon,

And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

-- Thomas Otway

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

-- Albert Camus

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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

-- Samuel Butler

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

-- Cicero

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.

-- Colette

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

-- Author Unknown

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.

-- James Matthew Barrie

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.

-- Eileen Mayhew

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

-- Author Unknown

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 witherings, of tarnishings.

-- Anais Nin