Heartbreak Quotes - Page 4

• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Feelings, Done

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

  Kami Garcia

  Hurt, Mad, Lovers

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• When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Failure, Moving, Memorable

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• If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

  Christine Feehan

  Broken Heart, Truth, Lying

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.191, Penguin

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• Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

  Agatha Christie

  Betrayal, Hate, Believe

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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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, Heartache

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• What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Giving

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

  Emily Bronte

  Broken, Degradation, Answers

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• There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

  Michael Connelly

  Moving On, Letting Go, Past

  Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”

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• Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Moving On, Heartbroken, Letting Go

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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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• Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

  Gregory David Roberts

  I Love You, Happiness, Heartbroken

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Life, Joy

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• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Educational

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24

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• The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

  William Faulkner

  Lost Love, Forever, Lasts

  William Faulkner (2014). “Soldier's Pay”, p.319, Random House

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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, Sweet, Grieving

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

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• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Encouraging, Past, Thinking

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• When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Disappointment, Being Alone

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

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• I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

  August Strindberg

  Love, Hatred, Sides

  August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  Walker Percy

  Grief, Loss, Past

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