Heartbreaking Quotes - Page 4

• Saying no is so heartbreaking.

  Britney Spears

  Saying No

  The X Factor, season 2, 2012.

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• I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Abuse, Common

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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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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• It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, Tired, Touching

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• I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many new and subtle ways, that our choices and decisions be made carefully, consistent with the goals and objectives by which we profess to live. We need unequivocal commitment to the commandments and strict adherence to sacred covenants. When we allow rationalizations to prevent us from temple endowments, worthy missions, and temple marriage, they are particularly harmful. It is heartbreaking when we profess belief in these goals yet neglect the everyday conduct required to achieve them.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Believe, Heart, Commitment

  "Choose Wisely". Quentin L. Cook’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Recovery, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Dark, Trying

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.

  Elayne Boosler

  Animal, Average, Years

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• I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now involved in criminal and reprise and activity, and we do not have the resources or the will to deport them systematically.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Reality, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Hard Work, Men

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pregnancy, Fall, Decision

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.

  A.M. Homes

  Children, Struggle, Loss

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• We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.

  Marco Rubio

  Leadership, Compassion, Reality

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• I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

  Tavis Smiley

  Cutting, Loss, Editors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Singing, Vulnerable

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get.

  Julie Benz

  Heart, Years, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.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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• 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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• She, uh, came out of the closet recently, my niece. Um... She announced to the family that she's a lesbian and... She's seven, did I mention that? And, uh, I don't even know if she knows what a lesbian is, but I support her completely. And, uh... I'll tell you what's heartbreaking. My sister punished her for it. Can you believe that? No pussy for a week. Which to us may not sound like... But when you're seven, you know, a week is a long time.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Niece, Believe

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