“She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
Heartbroken feeling
Heartbroken Quotes — page 15 of 27
“Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”
“I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.”
“A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]”
“Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.”
“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”
“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.”
“In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.”
“I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.”
“Hell's afloat in lover's tears.”
“Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.”
“I lost my one true love. I started drinking.”
“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”
“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”
“It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"”
“But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'”
“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”
“Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.”
“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
“You can't break my heart. It's made of water.”