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• I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted...leaving me broken hearted.

  Chris Elam

  Heart, Broken, Leaving

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• Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Romantic, Art, Passion

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• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

  Drake

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: July

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• Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Relationship, Family Love, Lasts

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

  Big Pun

  Valentines Day, True Love, Wedding

  Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Art, Being In Love, What Is Love

  Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”

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• People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

  LeBron James

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

  Petrarch

  Love, Littles, Able

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

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Friendship, Break Up, Broken Heart

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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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• '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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• I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

  Beth Ditto

  Country, Song, Sound

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• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  Benmont Tench

  Song, Thinking

  "From Side Player to Frontman: Benmont Tench on Solo Debut, Playing With Tom Petty and Bob Dylan (Q&A)". Interview with Chris Willman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2014.

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• Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

  Larry David

  Marriage, Bad Relationship, Precarious

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man". Interview with James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Anger, Love Is, Benevolence

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.150, Beacon Press

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• There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Inspirational, Long

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.

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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, Broken Heart

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

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• What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Believe, Bad Relationship, Long

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.675, Hamilton Books

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• Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Views, Looks

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