Broken Heart Quotes - Page 14

• A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.

  Patti Callahan Henry

  Summer, Country, Song

  Patti Callahan Henry (2009). “Driftwood Summer”, p.46, Penguin

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• I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Heartbroken, Breakup, Believe

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  We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• ...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

  Katie MacAlister

  Soul, Tears, Bleeding

  Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.123, Penguin

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• It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Love You, Making Love, Lasts

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• By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Unfortunate Coincidence" l. 1 (1926)

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• Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this.

  Tara MacLean

  Love Is, Knows, Heart

  Song: Blinded, Album: Passenger, 1999

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• The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

  Caroline Myss

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

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• The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Thinking, Hands

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.

  Alain Chartier

  Fire, Light, Doors

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• But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Wanted, Whole

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.213, Random House

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• Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.

  Nina Cassian

  Eye, Dark, Glasses

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Angel, Night, Garden

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Home, Winter, Dark

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• Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

  Tamzin Outhwaite

  Bitter, Twisted, Clear

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mother, Home, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Tired, Madmen

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

  Katie MacAlister

  My Heart, Lament, Hard

  Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.115, Penguin

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• In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

  Stephen Crane

  Good Friend, Hands, Naked

  The Black Riders and Other Lines "In the Desert" l. 1 (1895)

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• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Breakup, Grief, Grieving

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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• The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.

  Albert Richard Smith

  Safety, Tears, Too Much

  Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.63

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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• I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

  Nicole Kidman

  Break Up, Forgiveness, Breakup

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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Pain, Memories

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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• On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Perfect, Heaven, Earth

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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