Heartbreaking Quotes

• Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

  Joe Paterno

  Softball, Sports, Running

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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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• It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Might, Knees

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• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

  Violeta Parra

  Cute Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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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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• The heart was made to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Depressing, Dark

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• Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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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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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• 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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• 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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• The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

  Arthur Golden

  Hope, Heart, One Day

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. December 6, 2005.

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• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Afternoon

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• Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

  Richard Wilbur

  Break Up, I Miss You, Broken Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Katniss, Lasts

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Moon, Sorrow, Dawn

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

  Moby

  Home, America, People

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