Broken Heart Quotes

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  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

  Chief Joseph

  Sick, Broken Promises, Remember

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• If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Relationship, Sad Love

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

  Javan

  Sad, Break Up, Heartbroken

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• You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Loving You, Break, Holding Back

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• The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Practice, Forever

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• Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.61, Beacon Press

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

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Heartbroken, Positive Attitude

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

  Leon Redbone

  Blue, Trying, Littles

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Silence, Broken Promises

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

  Charles Simeon

  Joy, Tears, Tender Hearts

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.695

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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  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

  Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Courage, Growing Up, Want

  "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

  Margaret Atwood

  Over You, Avoiding, Flats

  Margaret Atwood (1993). “Wilderness Tips”, Bantam

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• You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Heart, Men

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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  There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Friendship, Heartbreak

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Patriot: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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