“She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.”
Heartbroken feeling
Heartbroken Quotes — page 14 of 27
“It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.”
“I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.”
“Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.”
“The warm love has the coldest end.”
“I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.”
“She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.”
“You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.”
“It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. "You loved me too?" he repeated. "Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget."”
“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
“Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.”
“Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.”
“I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.”
“I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?”
“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”
“Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.”
“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.”
“But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.”