Brokenhearted Quotes

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Broken Hearted, Emotion, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

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• To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Actors

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• Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Broken, Ribs

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• Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

  Sharon Olds

  Thinking, Quality, Steps

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• However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Disappointment, Heart, Storm

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• The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Proud

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• Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  Song: The Promised Land, Album: Darkness on the Edge of Town, 1978

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• They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dawn, Quiet

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• Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Negative, Guests

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• In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.

  Misty Upham

  Hero, Native American, Warrior

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• close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Fall, People

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• I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing.

  Fredrik Bond

  Sexy, Fall, Heart

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• We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.

  Andrew Harvey

  Children, Cat, Reality

  "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.

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• Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our Lord's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Home, Heart

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• Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Rain, Arms

  Song: Sherry Darling, Album: The River

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• I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Falling In Love, Back Love, Way

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• The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

  Isaiah

  Years, Liberty, Anointing

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• Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to those within, promulgate the year of the Lord's mercy... Bring into the world the hope of God, which is Christ the Lord Who rose from the dead and lives and reigns forever.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Doors, Years, Rose

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• somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Hate, Lying

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• In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.

  Phil Daniels

  Heart, Thinking, Play

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• I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I’m happy, I make great music. When I’m unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Believe, Heart, Artist

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Thinking, Knowing, Want

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• Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Mistake, Sadness

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