Heartbreak Quotes

• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Education

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• Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

  Frank Ocean

  Sorry, Heartache, Heart Break

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• There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Patriot: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Lonely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

  Nina Simone

  Heart Break, Tables, Break Your Heart

  Song: You've Got To Learn

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• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Betrayal, Unrequited Love, Memorable

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• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbroken, Betrayal

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• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Moving On, Marriage

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  The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Men, Coward

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• So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Heartbroken, Hurt

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Wall, Being Single

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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  Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

  Rosa Parks

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.364, A&C Black

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• Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Smile, Break Up

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• Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Heartbroken, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Stay Strong, Being Single

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

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• One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

  Steven Dietz

  Betrayal, Deceit, Betrayed

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.59, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

  Malcolm X

  Time, Adversity, Loss

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• There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

  Orson Scott Card

  Betrayal, Men, Rage

  "Treason". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1988.

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• So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

  Anna Godbersen

  Betrayal, Broken, Water

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