Heartbreak Quotes

i hate that its my favorite thing to watch her, because it shouldn't be. It triggers all these what-ifs in my head, and my mind begins imagining things it shouldn't be imagining...

~ Colleen Hoover

These feelings...the ugly feelings in my heart...should have been blown away...and buried deep in the sands...

~ Rei Tōma

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Today I gave you an hour. A year ago I would have given you an eternity.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I don't want this heart, it's split in two.

~ Samantha Young

I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part, I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.

~ Jim Fergus

I didn't fall in love with you tate, I flew..

~ Colleen Hoover

people don't get to choose who they fell in love with. they only get to choose who they stay in love with..

~ Colleen Hoover

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

~ Allie Burke

Heartbreak comes in many forms: infidelity, lies, or a simple, old fashioned break-up. But, there's another reason no one ever thinks about when it comes to heartbreak. It's something that outweighs the fear of being alone, and tells the brokenhearted individual that he or she will never find love again.

~ J.e. Bolton

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.

~ Leonard Cohen

Logan looked at her and wondered how someone so beautiful could be so oblivious to their own beauty, how someone so smart could be so foolish to the extent of their own intellect and how someone so loving and compassionate could ever think she wasn’t worthy of love? It was like watching a blind man trapped and wandering aimlessly and helplessly in a scorching hot desert unable to see the small puddle of water that lay just a foot away. The only difference was that she had eyes. Two beautiful ones, yet she could not see. Is that what madness was? Was it to be able to view and appreciate every form of beauty but to be blind to the value and exquisiteness of one’s own? Logan believed in many forms of insanity but he knew in that instant watching her trembling frame on the train tracks that hers, that her illness, surpassed any clinical or psychological term known. Maybe she did suffer from depression or bipolar or schizophrenia. Who knew? All he was certain of in that moment that she suffered from no greater illness than the blindness of the heart.

~ Ali Harper

Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is you? The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Logan felt like Icarus. He had never felt so free and blissfully alive as he did whenever he was with her. The closer he got to her the higher and happier he felt. Even at the mention of her name his heart would pound incessantly and all the giddy feelings he didn’t quite understand would suddenly reemerge. Every glance upon her blinding beauty cast a shadow upon every other girl for him. Everyone else paled in comparison to her. With every passing moment he had somehow discovered something new and exciting about her. With her by his side he could feel the light breeze flapping against his sides and the warmth of sunshine beating down on his handsome face. This is what it meant to be truly awake. This is what it meant to be in love. But just like Icarus he had gotten too close and had crashed and burned. As he lay crippled in the aftermath of his own destruction he wondered what hurt more the aching pangs of physical pain his body had been subjected to or the raw burning sensation he felt in his heart. He had gladly given her his heart and in return she threw it back in pieces claiming it wasn’t enough. That he wasn’t enough.

~ Ali Harper

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world, how they are destroyed.

~ Bryant Mcgill

As the doctors told him, he wanted to scream out loud and cry. He held his heavy head up and clenched his teeth and fists. “Men don’t cry,” his grandpa used to say. “Men don’t cry.” �8But he cried. Like a baby. He cried till he could feel cracks in his heart as he breathed. He cried till he knew he would never love again.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K. I’m standing here sweating like I had hyperhidrosis, that disease where you sweat a lot. Crap. That’s not interesting. But anyway, it’s hot, and so I’m thinking about cold to stay cool. And I was remembering walking through the snow coming back from the ridiculous movie. Do you remember that, K? We were on Giddings, and the snow made it so quiet, I couldn’t hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it’s hot, and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

~ John Green

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

~ Amanda Torroni

People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.

~ Julie Johnson

But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes.

~ Cassandra Clare

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

~ Siobhan Davis

Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart.. To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away.

~ Anna Jae

Heartbreak was the worst. It was worse than a cord wrapped around the wheel on you computer chair.

~ Maisey Yates

He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more inwardly into himself. He was, by turns, inflamed by anger, twisted by confusion, withered by sadness.

~ Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

~ Kathleen Peacock

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

~ Persian Proverb

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing hecould be told.It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.

~ Wallace Stevens

Nature is fine in love, fine as in thin and delicate, as in not firm. We move to attach, more than we understand, to things and people we love that we feel might be an anchoring point for this fine, precious love. When those anchors disappear, a part of us disappears, too. Well, that’s how it was for me at least.

~ Lauren Roedy Vaughn

It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.

~ Wendy Jones

You know, the heart is meant to be your life support, I was a fool to give her my heart. She affected my life support greatly and I know that I will never be the same without her again.

~ Joshua Pérez

I still wake longing for your touchSkin open wound rawbecause I was told that's the only way to heal.I couldn't tame youyou weren't meant for domesticationmeant to roam freebut I still rememberthe first time you said I love youa whisper barely audibleafraid of choking on your wordsor mineyou preferred me voicelessblank stare submissiveswallowing back years of lost timewaiting for you to change.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.

~ George Eliot

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

~ Mary Doria Russell

To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Does he make you see stars?’ he asks in a low voice. ‘Does he call you his north star? Because that’s what you are to me. You’re the reason I made it home.

~ Mila Gray

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald