1.
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
Bob Marley
The greatest act of cowardice a man can commit is to stir up the affections of a woman without any intention of returning them.
2.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
'Never permit someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their alternative.'
3.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
J. G. Holland
The most valued commodity a man can ever gain in life is a female's affections.
4.
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".
Nina Simone
Abandon hope when romance fades.
5.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Fulton J. Sheen
Occasionally, the only way for the Almighty to penetrate certain souls is by shattering them.
6.
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
Timothy Keller
Contrite regret states, "I wounded God's feelings," rather than simply "I violated God's commands."
7.
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
Taylor Swift
You are adept at apologizing and maintaining ambiguity.
8.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Isolation and the sensation of being disregarded is the most dreadful destitution.
9.
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
Oswald Chambers
10.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
11.
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.
Yunus Emre
12.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
Anais Nin
14.
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
Frank Ocean
15.
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
Mineko Iwasaki
16.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry
17.
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.
Katherine Center
18.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
19.
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
20.
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
Sylvia Plath
21.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Soren Kierkegaard
22.
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
23.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
Violeta Parra
24.
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
John Green
25.
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Jerry B. Jenkins
26.
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
Sylvia Plath
27.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Neil Gaiman
28.
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
Elizabeth Gilbert
29.
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
Marcel Proust
30.
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?
Becca Fitzpatrick
31.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
32.
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
35.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Leo Buscaglia
36.
I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.
Kami Garcia
37.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard Baker
38.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
39.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Nicholas Sparks
40.
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
41.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
42.
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
Charlotte Bronte
43.
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E. A. Bucchianeri
44.
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
Jodi Picoult
46.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia
47.
When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.
Lauren Fleshman
48.
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Edgar Allan Poe
49.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
Malcolm X
50.
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
Stephen King