Heartbreaking Quotes

121 Heartbreaking quotes by 106 unique authors

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad.… — David Arquette
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. — William J. Clinton
Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem. — H. Burke Peterson
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A… — Skip Horack
It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a… — Jamie McMurray
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would… — Robert Creeley
Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears… — Barbara Hambly
Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the… — Michael Bloomberg
I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly… — Unknown Author
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous… — Unknown Author
The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment. — Pema Chodron
Death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you’ll never see, the children you’ll ever hold, the wife you’ll never love. It’s… — Robert Liparulo
It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand. — Holly Goldberg Sloan
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes… — Elizabeth Cunningham
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the… — Unknown Author
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good… — Elizabeth McCracken
It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife,… — Eva Longoria
I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me. — Louisa May Alcott
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my… — Charlotte Bronte
To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This… — Katie Couric
I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and… — Geoff Ryman
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli

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