Heartbreaking Quotes - Page 6

• It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

  Chris Christie

  Loyalty, Lying, Guy

  Chris Christie's news conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

  Katie Melua

  Reality, Thinking, Musical Genius

  "Katie Melua: I want to start afresh". The Telegraph, September 15, 2007.

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• I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Failing

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.318, ShandonPress

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• It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  Eva Longoria

  Taken, Divorce, Thinking

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• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, People, Doubt

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• Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up.

  Samantha Hunt

  Thinking, Genius, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was three breakups going on at the same time. It was breaking up with my band, and my boyfriend, and right after that, my record label. I was arguing a lot with my record label during that whole time, so maybe they all affected each other. This record, Mondo Amore, came out of a time that was really heartbreaking and confusing, and that's why I switched the sound up a lot, to make it sound a little bit grittier and more raw.

  Nicole Atkins

  Breakup, My Boyfriend, Confusing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Song, Winning

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• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Always Trying, Touching, Unconventional

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• It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

  Taylor Swift

  Reality, World, Fairytale

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• When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

  Laura Esquivel

  Way

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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• That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

  Grace Paley

  Book, Reality, Return

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• At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

  Henri Barbusse

  Mankind, Slowness

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• What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Injustice, Breathtaking, Rage

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• Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?

  Abbi Glines

  Beautiful, Night, Annoyed

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• We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

  Jack Kerouac

  New Friends

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.11, Penguin

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• The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Reality

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• it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Sound, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.183, A&C Black

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• He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

  Ian Mcewan

  Heart, Darkness, Lines

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• --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sight, World, Growing

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• It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

  Dan Chaon

  Essence, Cartoon, Details

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.80, Ballantine Books

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• I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Song, Blessed, Tunnels

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• Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".

  Napoleon Hill

  Struggle, Self, Succeed

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.33, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I have great faith that there's a master plan and that even if we don't understand it and even if it's heartbreaking, there's a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.

  Terri Irwin

  Inspirational, Reason, Masters

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• Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.

  Steven James

  Party, Wings, Forever

  Steven James (2012). “Flirting with the Forbidden: Finding Grace in a World of Temptation”, p.89, Baker Books

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