Broken Heart Quotes - Page 15

• Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

  Susan Jeffers

  Breakup, Hurt, Rejection

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• Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

  Bruce Lee

  Attitude, Men, Sorrow

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.100, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Breakup, You Don't Love Me, Just Love Me

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• 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.

  Ethel Person

  Wise, Breakup, Wisdom

  "What it takes to love well and wisely" by Cathleen Medwick, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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

  Pink

  Breakup, Bent, Love Again

  Song: Pink Just Give Me A Reason, Album: The Truth About Love

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

  Doreen Virtue

  Attitude, Healing, Heaven

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• This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.

  Andres Lokko

  Dying, World, Losing

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• ... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.

  Christer Kihlman

  Sex, Order, Civilization

  Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”

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• I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.

  Peter Høeg

  Falling In Love, Don't Fall In Love, Fall

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• Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

  Gerald Brenan

  Two, People, Ends

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• And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Bird, Black

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.668, Macmillan

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• It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

  Geneen Roth

  Jobs, Sometimes, Break

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• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Baby, Passion, Hands

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.170, Random House

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Summer, Stars, Moon

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

  Sandra Bullock

  One Day, Wake Up, Stores

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• Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Heartbroken, Desire, Grey

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• I long for You so much
  I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
  That are high in the mountains
  That I know are years old.
  I long for You so much
  I have even begun to travel
  Where I have never been before.

  Hafez

  Years, Long, Track

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• The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Thinking, Hands

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.

  Alain Chartier

  Fire, Light, Doors

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• But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Wanted, Whole

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.213, Random House

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• Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.

  Nina Cassian

  Eye, Dark, Glasses

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Angel, Night, Garden

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Home, Winter, Dark

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• Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

  Tamzin Outhwaite

  Bitter, Twisted, Clear

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mother, Home, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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