Heartache quotes
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"I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright."
"There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination."
"For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache."
"It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache."
"I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know."
"Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them."
"Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out."
"If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins."
"By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century."
"What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?"
"Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard."
"Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences."
