Heartbreak Quotes

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?

~ The Script

Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore.

~ Anna Mcpartlin

There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

She remained silent. There was nothing left to say. He'd said it all the night before. He had to end it. He could never leave his wife. And, in fact, she had known this. Although she loved him - and truly she did - he wasn't hers. He belonged to his wife. She'd earned him. It didn't matter that he was her first love or that she was his passion. It didn't matter that they had loved one another for more than half their lives. It didn't matter that he had married his wife on the rebound. It didn't matter that he didn't love the woman. It didn't even matter that they had turned into some soap-opera cliche. He was married to someone else and that meant that she was leftovers and destined to remain on the periphery in the shadow of another woman's marriage. But no more. She was well and truly sick of it. 

~ Anna Mcpartlin

I want him to reach out to me, but I know he can't. He can't for all the same reasons I can't. It hurts too much. It's like an alcoholic taking a sip of wine; the pleasure of the indulgence would be immediate and swift, but the aftermath would be devastating.

~ Elizabeth Finn

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

~ Gayle Forman

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

~ Nicholas Sparks

You selfish bitch!She had known for a long time that putting her needs above those of Adam's wife and children was indeed selfish. She had no real answer to the accusation thrown at her.I'm sorry she said, with her head in her hands.you're sorry? came her adversary's disbelieving reply.I am. I'm sorry he married you when he was in love with me. I'm sorry I couldn't have loved someone else. I'm sorry your marriage is a joke and I'm sorry that I'm alone. I'm sorry for a lot of things - for you, for your kids, for me and for him. I spend most of my time being sorry.For a moment there was silence at the end of the line.all you had to do was stay awayif only I could have. tears escaped and raced down her cheeks.I hate you!

~ Anna Mcpartlin

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

~ Cheryl Cole

She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. 

~ Anna Mcpartlin

I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me.Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed.I know I'm selfishYou're humanI wanted him to abandon his children

~ Anna Mcpartlin

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

~ Robert Goolrick

I first got very thin after Ashley. I felt like my stomach was doing backflips - like my emotions had taken over and made me full.

~ Cheryl Cole

They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile.There was nothing beautiful abo

~ Sarah Maclean

You trample on hearts as if they're grapes and you're making wine.

~ Mallory Kane

We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

~ Rae Hachton

The things that are priceless to my heart carry no currency where we are going.

~ Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.

~ Colleen Truscott Fry

There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

~ Emma Forrest

I'd breathe for her. I'd see for her, hear for her, and feel for her. I'd even die for her. Thousands of times. If I could see her smile at me one more time, it would all be worth it. Just one more time. Before I completely fell apart.

~ Tiana Dalichov

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

~ Michael Ondaatje

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

~ John Geddes

How do you make love to someone when you know they’ll be gone forever the next day? How do you spend the last few hours with someone when you know there will never beanything after that?

~ B.g. Harlen

You reached into my chest with your words. When you spoke, my heart danced. Love muddled thoughts based in reason. Interest withered like a flower in dry heat then your words wrapped themselves around my heart and yanked it from my body. Now I stand bewildered by the sight of my heart beating on the cold concrete floor.

~ Sonya Watson

Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.

~ Emma Forrest

I say, Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again.Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, you are instead learning in the breakup. You have learned that he has a desperate desire for intimacy and then a desperate desire for the cave. He will get lonely there eventually and come back.To me?He doesn't pause. To someone new.And I'll have to watch another girl?You will have to, but you will also know what lies ahead for that poor girl.

~ Emma Forrest

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

~ Pete Wentz

Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming.

~ Emma Forrest

I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.

~ Anna Quindlen

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

~ Emma Forrest

It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial.

~ Emma Forrest

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

~ Jean Kwok

It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin. Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.

~ Emma Forrest

I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

~ Emma Forrest

For some reason, the despair that's welling up in me is transforming into white-hot rage. I feel it working its way up from my toes, winding around my legs, and burrowing into the pit of my stomach. It spears its razor-sharp tendrils through the pieces of my broken heart. It's crippling, and devastating, and unrelenting. I have only one choice to survive this; I turn that rage outward.

~ Michelle Figley

When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to do, and he was mourning us. He was mourning us the whole time.

~ Emma Forrest

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

~ Jane Austen

You may right now be nursing a broken heart. Friends will say, Aren't you glad you had the experience anyway? And you may say No. Eventually, unbelievably, you may not remember the boy that triggered it all. You'll recall all the places you visited, but not how you got there. You'll remember the songs that you listened to.

~ Emma Forrest

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

~ Susan Sontag

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

~ Janette Rallison