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

  Rumi

  Sorrow

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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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• 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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• 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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• Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Loneliness, Zest

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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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• The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• It's not love's going hurts my days
  But that it went in little ways.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Friendship, Broken Heart, Hurt

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Spring And The Fall”

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• To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Humble, Helping Others

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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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• Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

  Stephen King

  Recipes, Wanting More

  Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

  Judy Collins

  Health, Suffering, Tragedy

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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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• Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Encouragement, Lost Love

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• The heart was made to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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