Broken Heart quotes
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"Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body."
"Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac."
"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."
"Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent."
"A tree that is unbending, is easily broken."
"For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack."
"When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else."
"For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And gave me roughage in my diet, And tucked me in my bed at eight, And clipped my hair, and marked my weight, And watched me as I sat and stood: That I might grow to womanhood To hear a whistle and drop my wits And break my heart to clattering bits."
"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."
"Love is a promise delivered already broken."
"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are."
"People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart."
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
"It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
"Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own."
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked."
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken."
"I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps."
"My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart."
