Broken Quotes - Page 4

• It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

  Gilbert Parker

  Broken Heart, Pride, Broken Love

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

  Jane Rule

  Broken Heart, People, Choices

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

  Antonio Porchia

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Grieving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

  Diana Krall

  Broken Heart, Song, Creating

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• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Truth, Oil, Water

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• At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

  Henry Adams

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Matter

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Broken Heart, Glasses, Together

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• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Eggs, Bird

  Peter Pan act 5 (1928)

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• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Men, Addiction

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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

  Robert Browning

  Broken Heart, Perfect, Heaven

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Native American, Men

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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

  Will Durant

  Broken Heart, Truth, Minorities

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• America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

  Mike Ferguson

  America, Doctors, Nurse

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• 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

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

  Joseph Hall

  Positive, Eye, Character

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• The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Past, Keeping Promises, Literature

  "At 500, Machiavelli's 'Prince' Still Inspires Love And Fear" by Sylvia Poggioli, www.npr.org. May 27, 2013.

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• 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 witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Band, Size

  "The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

  Bobby Sands

  Want, Spirit, Republican

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• Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

  Martha Stewart

  Love, Success, Baseball

  “CNN Larry King Live”, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2004.

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

  Emma Thompson

  Birthday, Broken Heart, Grief

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