Heartbreak Quotes
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"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"The heart was made to be broken."
"To douchebags!"he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart,"he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her."
"He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."
"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."
"Was it hard?"I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real."
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it..."
"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."
"We're staying together,"he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."
"Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing..."
"Hearts are breakable,"Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before"."
"Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal"
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
"I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay"
"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."
"I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart."
"I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?"
"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"
"I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting."
"you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry"
"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope"
"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for."
"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."
"So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here"
"You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore."
"You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about."
"To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God."
"There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again."
"She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer."
"I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder."
"You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?"
"It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise."
"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"
"If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside."
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"When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bear my soul, with words, for all to see."
"But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years."
"Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over."
"We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams."
"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
"After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?"
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone"
"Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm gonna smile cause I deserve toQuickly I'm learning to love againAll I know is I'mma be ok"
"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"
"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."
"It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before."
"I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity."
"I'll tell you something, Harpy,"he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything."
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