Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her."
Heartbreak quotes
Heartbreak
172 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."
Nina Simone
Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
"You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served"."
Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart.""
Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry"
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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
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"Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow."
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"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."
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"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
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"When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever."
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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
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"In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place."
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"In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious."
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"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
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"I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out."
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"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes."
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"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
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"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself."
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"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."
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"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
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"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal."
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"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."
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