I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
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
As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you. ~Toto
It’s
so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest
hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a
window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has
suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything
collapses. ~Colette
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur
If
we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And
please myself with, while my heart’s breaking. ~Thomas Otway
Have
you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull
the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks
With
what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence – o’er and o’er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a
drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
~Thomas Moore
Where
you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself
constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I
miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
There
are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we
don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without
but have to let go. ~Author Unknown
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey
I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you’re gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra
The
turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the
core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, The
Unfinished Country, 1950
“The
horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never
forget!” “You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a
memorandum of it. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872
There
is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means
the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ~Harry
Crews
Man
performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear.
That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ~Cicero
The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. ~Uniek Swain
Rock
bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to
turn around. ~Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, “Rock Bottom”
Jealousy
is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy
scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred
and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value.
If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved.
You will always think it’s a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others
and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the
old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your
personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy,
and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James
Mishaps
are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by
the blade or the handle. ~James Russell Lowell, “Cambridge Thirty Years
Ago,” Literary Essays
“Old
times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back
is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better. ~George E.
Woodberry
When
one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which
open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see. ~Edmund Spenser
Count
the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your
life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~Author Unknown
My love-lies-bleeding. ~Thomas Campbell
Ask
me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the
same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to
love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown
I
never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something
you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown
Let no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie
When
you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in
truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil
Gibran
Heaven
knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the
blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations, 1860
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ~Antoine Rivarol
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. ~Ovid
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
While
grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait
till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of
it. ~Samuel Johnson
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette
The
beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,
cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1929
Doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind
That
was rough…. Thing to do now is try and forget it…. I guess I don’t
quite mean that. It’s not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing
you want to forget…. Life’s like that sometimes… Now and then for no
good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him
flat, slam him agin’ the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is
busted. But it’s not all like that. A lot of it’s mighty fine, and you
can’t afford to waste the good part frettin’ about the bad. That makes
it all bad…. Sure, I know – sayin’ it’s one thing and feelin’ it’s
another. But I’ll tell you a trick that’s sometimes a big help. When you
start lookin’ around for something good to take the place of the bad,
as a general rule you can find it. ~From the movie Old Yeller
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey
In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. ~Brendan Francis