Heartbreak Quotes

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

~ Virgil

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

~ Junot Díaz

I’m clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I’m hurting now, he’ll hurt ten times worse. That’s the only thing that keeps me going.

~ Jenny Han

A broken heart is probably tougher the second time around but just remember those pieces will come together again. The hurt and pain will fade. You will then remember how strong you are. You will thank a broken heart someday, remember that.

~ Aline Alzime

Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny—heart broken, twice die.

~ Wendy Beck

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

~ Stella Padnos

Don’t try to lie to your heart because one day, it’ll eat you up - Marina

~ Diyar Harraz

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

~ Daria Snadowsky

every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears

~ Kami Garcia

I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could.

~ Alexa Chung

Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.

~ Len Webster

Teach me how to love you so goodour hearts will be beatingthunderouslyagainst our ribcagesstraining to get out.For so long I have only knownhow to hurt.There are scars on my body likeconstellations. The one on my hip was from when I was sixand I learned my parents were the Titanic and the iceberg.My wrist has a faint bruisereminding me of when I gave myselfto a boy who crashed and burnedand took me down with him.Heartbreak sounds a lot likea slamming door.Show me it doesn’t have to be this way,I want to be proven wrong.Teach me how to love right.

~ Tina Tran

I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.

~ Daniel Handler

Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes.

~ Kels Adeline Sapp

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

~ Susan Crandall

Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes.

~ Jael Mchenry

I listened to the crashing thundering of a tiny tear tumbling like a wave down her beautiful face.

~ Craig Stone

I was just another lost soul screaming through the paper thin hotel walls into the ears of the fucked.

~ Craig Stone

And I think missing you hurts the most when something funny happens. Because in that one moment I find myself laughing, and within the next second I want to tell or text you what happened. And then it hits me again, every single time, that you aren’t there anymore. That I lost that one thing that mattered to me.

~ Elisabeth Van Den Abeele

There will be times when it seems that it would be best to just call him and see how he’s doing. Don’t deceive yourself, you don’t care about how he’s doing, you’re just craving him, don’t do it. You’ll only hurt yourself.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.

~ Shakieb Orgunwall

I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

~ Daniel Handler

As time goes by, westart to see more clearly,and are able to see thatit wasn’t all bad, and thatperhaps just perhapsthe breakup was a gift.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Ladies: There are some men who will listen to all of your desires simply to use them to control you. #LearnToDiscernListen to what he does, Watch what he says and avoid the heartbreak.

~ A.h. Carlisle Iii

My heart's cracking apart all over again because of the way I've missed him.

~ Jolene Perry

No wheelchair can support damaged self-esteem until it learns to stand upright. No cane can help emotions limp along until they can walk. A cast or brace can't protect a vulnerable spirit, and not even the strongest painkiller can stop the ache cause by a failed relationship. No, the only way a broken heart mends itself is with stitches of time and the sticky tape of hastily rearranged dreams.

~ Jay Bell

Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for the love of a good man. It humbled me.

~ Michelle Orange

I need you like the day needs the night -Quinn O'Shea

~ Tammy Morea

Without the dark we'd never see the stars.

~ Tammy Morea

People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine or I promise, they will just walk on by.

~ Ava Ayers

Charity knew that she had to be up early in the morning. And she knew that a weepy, silly, ridiculously old-fashioned love story was not the thing to watch with a broken heart. Nevertheless, she watched. And wept. And was still smiling when she fell asleep at three o'clock in the morning, with the remote in her hand and the telly still going.

~ Elizabeth Jane Howard

I think I miss Ben,” she told Lauren one night. “No, you don’t,” Lauren said. “But sometimes, I really think I do.” Lauren sighed. “Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

~ Jennifer Close

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all of my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as an occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cow disease.

~ Dominic Monaghan

That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.

~ Mallika Nawal

Not every love comes to a successful conclusion.

~ Santosh Kalwar

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

~ Patrick Marber

My mother calls it the pretty hate.It comes on you like a fever when someone you love up and leaves you with nothing but silence. You turn the hate on yourself as you cannibalize your heart while the rage burns through you and polishes your desperation into a diamond. It is one of the cruelest things in the world to do to another human being.Don’t do that.

~ Ava Ayers

We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future.Together we kick heartbreak's ass.

~ Jessica Park

The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.

~ Will Mcintosh