Broken Heart Quotes - Page 7

• I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Broken Promises

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• I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

  Sally Field

  Break Up, Breakup, Thinking

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  Sutton Foster

  Success, Dream, Real

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• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  Wallace Stegner

  Encouragement, Inspirational Life, Life Lesson

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.21, Penguin

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• Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

  Helen Rowland

  Heartbroken, Men, You Hurt Me

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  Walter Scott

  Archer, May, Littles

  'The Lord of the Isles' (1813) canto 5, st. 18

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• It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wise, Wisdom, Years

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

  Jessamyn West

  Forever, Bones, Heal

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

  Liam Fox

  Country, People, Sake

  "Liam Fox calls for faster UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

  Mariah Carey

  Heart, Broken, My Heart

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• It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

  Winona Ryder

  Hate, Past, Thinking

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• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Lost Love, Blessed

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• My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

  John Woolman

  Desire, Helping, My Heart

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Broken Promises, Imbeciles

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• Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Music, Flutes

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• Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

  Will Durant

  Truth, Minorities, Precedent

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• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Heartbroken

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Real, Book

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.400, e-artnow

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• 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

  Sad, Dream, Kissing

  Sara Teasdale, “The Kiss”

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• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  H. G. Wells

  Friendship, Work, Advancement

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

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  The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Friendship, Break Up, Heartbreak

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• When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

  Louis C. K.

  Hurt, Pain, Editors

  "Fictional character: Louie". "Louie/ Cop Story", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

  Kurt Cobain

  Love, Relationship, Moving On

  "Song: "Dumb" ("In Utero")". 1993.

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