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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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• There are certain relationships in our lives that implode, and it can feel really inexplicable and terrifying. You don't know why, and sometimes relationships end for reasons that one person keeps from the other person, and it's just totally unclear, and it just goes south and it's heartbreaking.

  Ed Helms

  Sometimes, Reason

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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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• Football - it's not fun when you lose. That's a heartbreaking thing. But then there's a new week, and a new opportunity and I definitely get happier and happier as that new opportunity approaches. So 'win the next game,' that's my mindset.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Fun, Winning

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Sibling, Funny Family, People

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.243, Penguin

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• I'm lucky that I know so many people in the world, but it's also heartbreaking because I'm only one person, and I only have as much time as everyone else. For every choice I make about how to spend this time, there are a million somethings that have to go by the wayside.

  Jenn Wasner

  People, Choices, Lucky

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Contentment, Inability, Glitches

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional, Skills, Choices

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Simple, Offering

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• It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.

  Doris Day

  Confused, Animal, Hungry

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• What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jobs, Trying, Lessons

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• I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly.

  Greta Gerwig

  Great Love, Dancer, Ballet

  Source: collider.com

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• A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Loss, Men

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• What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don't report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common.

  Claire McCaskill

  Drinking, Mean, Faults

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

  John Malkovich

  Football, Games, Play

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.

  Elizabeth Cunningham

  Powerful, Rain, Book

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• Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Trying, Band

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• David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

  Brad Listi

  Essence, Stories, Spirit

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• It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Hands, Has Beens, Hand In Hand

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.20, Penguin

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• There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

  Georgette Heyer

  Falling In Love, Doe, Share

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• Right when I was I was diagnosed my husband and I were actively trying for a family, which is heartbreaking for us both.

  Brittany Maynard

  Husband, Trying, My Husband

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• Death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you’ll never see, the children you’ll ever hold, the wife you’ll never love. It’s frightening to almost lose your future and it’s heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people’s tomorrows.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Sunset, People

  Robert Liparulo (2009). “Gatekeepers”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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