“Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?”
Heartbroken feeling
Heartbroken Quotes — page 8 of 27
“I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”
“Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.”
“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
“A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.”
“My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.”
“There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.”
“Love when it comes, its easy. But when it leaves, its like dying.”
“Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
“I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.”
“Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.”
“If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.”
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
“Failure to love is almost like murder.”
“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.”
“I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.”
“Love dies because its birth was an error.”
“The only way love punishes in by suffering.”