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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• 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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• 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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• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Encouragement, Lost Love

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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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• 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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• 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, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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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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• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Military, Failure

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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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• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Denial, Humans, Mechanism

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