Heartbreaking Quotes

121 Heartbreaking quotes by 106 unique authors

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. — Arthur Rimbaud
You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks,… — Betty White
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose… — Anne Rice
It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most… — Dan Chaon
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.… — Simone de Beauvoir
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple,… — Mitch Albom
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where… — Edward Abbey
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. — William Faulkner
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope. — Suzanne Collins
No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference,… — Ann Aguirre
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter… — Jonathan Tropper
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking. — Kazuo Ishiguro
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. — Margaret Mitchell
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the… — Ian Mcewan
I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and… — Patrick Rothfuss
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will… — Dallas Willard
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly… — Billy Collins
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it — Kurt Vonnegut
We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends. — Jack Kerouac
Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you… — Abbi Glines
What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this… — Thrity Umrigar

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