Grief Quote by Margaret Rogerson

“Bits of bleeding hearts, shattered love and broken promises, Stitched together by the scars of the wounds that did the breaking.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”

— Holly Black

“Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks And the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts.”

— Florence + the Machine

“His declaration pierced through the muscle of her heart like a skillfully thrown knife. It was the kind of pain that made her feel…

— Stephanie Perkins

“A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”

— Madeline Miller

“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills…

— Brodi Ashton

“Only hardship softens the hardness of the human heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“My heart strained and cracked, fat at the seams with sorrow and laughter and a crazed, futile flare of hope.”

— Eva V.gibson