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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

  Ilka Chase

  Youth, Realizing, Girlhood

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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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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• 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 am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly acts, and it's heartbreaking. Everyday women and children are being abused in their own homes. I am standing up and saying that I am a Real Man, and that violence against women and children has to end.

  Gethin Jones

  Children, Real, Home

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• Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

  Wil Wheaton

  Real, Love Is, Dust

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• The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Phones, Fishing

  2000 Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems, 'Forgetfulness'.

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• Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

  Jane Addams

  Unemployment, Hull House, Misery

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.119, Hayes Barton Press

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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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• With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A lyrical and riveting testament to the strength of the human spirit, as well as the power of family and community. Ward's paragraphs are like songs, lifting us even as the authenticity of this world and these characters keeps the ground in clear sight. This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer.

  Skip Horack

  Beautiful, Song, Book

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• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

  Viola Davis

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Moments

  "'Won't Back Down': 2 Moms Fight to Save a Failing School". Interview with Marisa Fox, www.redbookmag.com. August 20, 2012.

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• When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Knowing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

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• Now, granted, there are still as many heartbreaking things going on. There are so many things in the Obama administration to be sick over that certainly didn't change. And also our media, if it's possible, seems to be getting even worse. The alleged news media. And then there are the teabag racists adding insult to injury. But I don't have that same heartbreak anymore, because it's not fresh heartbreak anymore. It's like I'm used to it. I'm sure we all are just used to it.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sick, Racist, Insult

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• Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

  Stephanie March

  Children, Heart, Night

  "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

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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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• It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

  Sidney Lumet

  Art, Fun, Way To Live

  Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.10, Vintage

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