Heartbreak Quotes
1339 Heartbreak quotes by 705 unique authors
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When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is…
— Libba Bray
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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
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Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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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…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to…
— L. Frank Baum
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The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of…
— Heather Brewer
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and…
— Anna Godbersen
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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
— Pearl Bailey
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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
— Gregory David Roberts
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Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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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
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I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection…
— Lisa Kleypas
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When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
— Jodi Thomas
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And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
— Taylor Swift
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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
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