Heartbreaking quotes
63 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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 of love."
"There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere."
"The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment."
"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 sustain contentment."
"The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest."
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"Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves"."
"It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality."
"We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends."
"--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. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself."
"it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it."
"I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me."
"The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking."
"The worst thing that can happen is when you have gone weeks and months into elaborate sequences and the storyline of the film changes and you find out they don't need it. Sometimes you don't shoot those sequences, or they have been shot and then get edited out of the sequence you've shot gets changed and needs to be redone. That can be hard. It's not heartbreaking, but you do tend to think, "Och, all that work and effort." But that's filming, you know? You put all of these modular things into the pot, and sometimes they don't all get used."
"It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones."
"Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question."
"What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate."
"Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well."
"The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it"
"I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me."
