Heartbreaking Quotes

121 Heartbreaking quotes by 106 unique authors

Sure. I’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 invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and… — Peter Ho Davies
Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’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. It’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
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a… — Francis Ford Coppola
It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to… — Caroline Dhavernas
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their… — B. C. Forbes
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect… — Shawn Johnson
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question. — Annie Lennox
I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in. — Rachel McAdams
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people… — Unknown Author
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get… — Chuck Palahniuk
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno

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