Heartache Quotes

• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

  Charles Stanley

  Trials, Tests, Matter

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• Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

  Lauren Conrad

  Love, Sad, Heartbreak

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• Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Needs, Embrace

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• Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
  that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

  Rumi

  Sorrow

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• Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction...I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches...I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Lying, Here I Am

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Sweet

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sad, Heartbreak

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• You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

  Truman Capote

  Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Giving

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

  William Allen White

  Men, Joy, Humanity

  William Allen White (1906). “In Our Town”

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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• The heart was made to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• How beautiful the yesterday that stood
  Over me like a rainbow! I am alone,
  The past is past. I see the future stretch
  All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

  Alexander Smith

  Beautiful, Dark, Past

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69

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• Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

  Cassandra Clare

  Heartbreak, Healing, Thinking

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• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

  Judd Nelson

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Real

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

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• By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Fathers Day, Hurt, Couple

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

  Stephen King

  Sad, Heartbreak, Thinking

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.118, American Liberty Press

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

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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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

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

  Richard Marx

  Depression, Sadness, Writing

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