Best 1596 quotes in «heartbreak quotes» category

I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

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.

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

If it hurts, it isn't love.

If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

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.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

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

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.