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Heartbreak Quotes

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.
Authors on Heartbreak Quotes: Elizabeth Gilbert Charlotte Bronte Anne Hathaway Leo Buscaglia George Bernard Shaw Anais Nin Taylor Swift Oscar Wilde John Green George Eliot Lauren Conrad Sylvia Plath Malcolm X Jodi Picoult Joel Henry Hildebrand Edgar Allan Poe Thomas Otway Gloria Steinem William Faulkner Lauren Fleshman Lorrie Moore Christine Feehan Madame de Stael Stephen King Markus Zusak E. A. Bucchianeri Samuel Johnson Mariah Carey Algernon Charles Swinburne Mineko Iwasaki Deborah Cox Carl Jung Toni Morrison
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

13.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni

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 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

29.
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

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

33.
What's meant to be will always find a way.
Trisha Yearwood

34.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux

41.
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

42.
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey

43.
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E. A. Bucchianeri

44.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham

45.
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.
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

48.
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

49.
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

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