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Heartbreak QuotesFamous Heartbreak quotes by popular authors such as Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, William Congreve, Anais Nin, John Donne and others.
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[highlight-text]If it hurts it isn't love.
Chuck Spezzano
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[highlight-text]Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Terence
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[highlight-text]The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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[highlight-text]Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
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[highlight-text]The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]He who has never experienced hurt cannot experience true love.
Tristan J. Loo
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[highlight-text]If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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[highlight-text]A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
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[highlight-text]Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
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[highlight-text]Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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[highlight-text]There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Richard Hovey
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[highlight-text]It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
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[highlight-text]The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
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[highlight-text]And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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[highlight-text]Love is much like a wild rose beautiful and calm but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby
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[highlight-text]I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer
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[highlight-text]Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
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[highlight-text]Though I know he loves me tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale
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[highlight-text]You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
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[highlight-text]When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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[highlight-text]Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
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[highlight-text]I'm very lonely now Mary For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!
Helen Selina
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[highlight-text]Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
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[highlight-text]When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]A mighty pain to love it is and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains the greatest pain it is to love but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
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[highlight-text]If you love someone let them go. If they return to you it was meant to be. If they don't their love was never yours to begin with.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo Casanova
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[highlight-text]You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich
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[highlight-text]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.
Neil Gaiman
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[highlight-text]If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
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[highlight-text]Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
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[highlight-text]You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain an ache about the heart never leaving one by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism not intolerable at any one instant but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry Brooks Adams