Heartbreaking Quotes

121 quotes by 106 authors

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 itâ€™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
Sure. Iâ€™d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got… — Weegee
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively inventionâ€”these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and… — Peter Ho Davies
Christianity is wild. Itâ€™s intimate. Itâ€™s heartbreaking and soul-mending. Itâ€™s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God… — Steven James
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to… — Will Schwalbe
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. Itâ€™s… — Ethan Hawke
If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all… — Aimee Mullins
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell. — Tahereh Mafi
I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good… — Louis C. K.
Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often… — Richard Russo
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part. — Stockard Channing
Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question. — J. Robbins
As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough… — Carole Keeton
I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that… — Blake Lively

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