Heartbreak Quotes - Page 8

• After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Needs, Dear

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.59, Library of America

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• Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Sarcastic, Romance

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.119

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• They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Heartbroken, Travel, Suitcases

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• When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Karma, Letting Go

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

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• If we must part for ever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

  Thomas Otway

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  "Best Plays".

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• I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

  John Suckling

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartache

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.65

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• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

  Julie Andrews

  Love, Depressing, Knows

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

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• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Love, Positive, Dream

  David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

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• We love because it's the only true adventure.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, Life, Adventure

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• When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart

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• Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

  Madame de Stael

  Soul, Unhappy, Affection

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• Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Passion, May, Ends

  Mona Van Duyn (1993). “Firefall: poems”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Way

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Missing You, Grieving

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.184, Applewood Books

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• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Morning, Flower, Sleep

  "A las flores". Poem by Pedro Calderon de la Barca,

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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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• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Life, Sad

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• All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Intimacy, Surface

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.322, A&C Black

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• Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Real, School

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.377, A&C Black

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• every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Wall, Healthy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Love Story”, p.84, Penguin

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• The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

  John Green

  Love, Hands, Voice

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