Breaking A Heart Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Philippa Gregory

#3. He had been through a hundred heartbreaks, but he found himself afraid when he thought of Alexander Lightwood breaking his heart.

Cassandra Clare

#4. It's a hard case,' said Paul. 'First, I'm twenty. That means I'm very nervous and ill-at-ease with women. Second, I'm twenty. I have all my life before me, and frankly the prospect often appals me. Thirdly, I'm twenty, and I'm in love with Anna and my heart is breaking.

Doris Lessing

#5. They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

Kelis

#6. You can die of a broken heart
it's scientific fact
and my heart has been breaking since that very first day we met. I can feel it now, aching deep behind my rib cage the way it does every time we're together, beating a desperate rhythm: Love me. Love me. Love me.

Abby McDonald

#7. If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.

Victor Hugo

#8. The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

Mark Hart

#9. It's a facade to hide the fact that my heart is breaking. But, whatever. That isn't your problem anymore.

Kristen Ashley

#10. It's a tough thing having to step aside for a friend, when your heart's breaking and your nether parts are still tangled up in their base desires.

Bill Willingham

#11. Alex, I don't need to keep myself safe from you. I don't want to keep myself safe from you. You mean too much to me. I'd rather have a lifetime of heartache, from you breaking my heart, than even imagine my life without you at all. Because a life without you wouldn't be a life at all.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#12. That looked like love to me, when you put a brave face on your heart breaking because it was what the other person needed.

Ann Aguirre

#13. I was a barmaid for my mum for years, as we lived above a pub. I still can't hear the Heartbeat theme tune without breaking into a cold sweat, as it used to start at the same time as my shift.

Sara Cox

#14. My heart is breaking for a little love

Christina Rossetti

#15. My longtime broken heart was breaking again, shattering, falling to pieces and disintegrating. And in its place was a brand new heart. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Madeline Sheehan

#16. Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Being this close to her silence is like my heart breaking all over the place. I can feel it, like it's pulling me down into a bottomless pit, like it's calling for me to just fall and fall and fall.

Patrick Ness

#18. For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart
not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

Leslea Tash

#19. I haven't ever really found a place that I call homeI never stick around quite long enough to make itI apologize that once again I'm not in loveBut it's not as if I mindthat your heart ain't exactly breaking.

Dido Armstrong

#20. Perhaps fate brought us together,
And the incidents in between made us close,
Falling in love was a simple choice,
But breaking my heart, that was yours.

Tanzy Sayadi

#21. I left you a long time ago," I whispered, reaching up to place a hand over my breaking heart. "I just didn't realise it.

Madeline Sheehan

#22. Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks ...

John Geddes

#23. And you said we wouldn't make it
But look how far we've come
For so long my heart was breaking
But now we're standing strong
The things you say
They me fall harder each day
You're a trainwreck
But I wouldn't love you if you changed

Demi Lovato

#24. Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then
that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Ally Carter

#25. And you will keep breaking my heart a thousand times. And I will keep joining the pieces back a thousand times.

Avijeet Das

#26. I don't, Cody insisted. Now he was not only standing up to both of us, he was practically breaking his own record for chattiness at the same time. And even though I didn't have a heart, except for circulatory purposes, I felt an affection for him and wanted to come down on his side.

Jeff Lindsay

#27. That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotion pain, it's a physical pain too.

Jerilee Kaye

#28. She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream ...

Joseph Conrad

#29. A single instant of kindness, she thought again, her heart breaking. How do we save them all, Aden? One at a time.

Nalini Singh

#30. I looked at you for two and a half years
I didn't see you.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#31. You started with a broken heart and blamed everyone you met after that for breaking it.

Kristin Hersh

#32. It has been a year, two months, and seventeen days since I last saw him.Two years, ten months and five days since he broke my heart.Technically, he began breaking my heart the moment I met him, five years, eleven months, and one day ago.

Willow Aster

#33. A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.

Rachel Higginson

#34. He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.

Faith Sullivan

#35. My heart is breaking because I'm alone. I know I have Wyatt right now, but that will change. I'll go back to Philadelphia and be a single mom. It's

Corinne Michaels

#36. The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.

Luke Taylor

#37. I wonder what sound a breaking heart makes?

Yuri Olyesha

#38. From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Heather O'Neill

#39. It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

Joe Biden

#40. Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart.

Ally Carter

#41. Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind ... but he won't.

Ellen Hopkins

#42. Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

Jerry Spinelli

#43. I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Emm Cole

#44. And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside.
It was the sound of her heart breaking.

Alexandra Potter

#45. Or - but this more rarely happened - she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#46. Forgive me," he said in a hard voice. "My heart is breaking over here. I'm doing the best I can.

Corrine Jackson

#47. I looked down at my chest, figuring there had to be a bullet hole. Or an arrow sticking out. Something to explain the pain. But then I realized it was just my heart. Breaking.

A&E Kirk

#48. She could sit around listening to her heart breaking, or she could go watch a grown man piss himself.
"How crossed are her eyes?" Dove asked.
Duke gave her the shit-eating grin of victory. "So fucking crossed that she can see herself change her mind.

Debra Anastasia

#49. When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same.

Steph Campbell

#50. At first, I thought the ring might be a fake, a lie. But it was real to me. When I was always waiting for you, while my heart was breaking, and as I was happy, the ring became real to me because of you.

Ji-Eun Song

#51. In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

Stanley Kunitz

#52. I don't believe in love at first sight, neither do you. But I know ... that sometimes it only takes a few minutes to recognize that a person is capable of breaking your heart.

Kamila Shamsie

#53. A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ...

Alice Walker

#54. Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

Betty Smith

#55. Nikolai felt his heart breaking at the unfairness of a universe which let good people suffer while evildoers walked free and unpunished.

Adele Hamaludin

#56. Why it is that life can change so quickly?"
"How it's possible for a heart to stop beating so suddenly, instantly breaking all the hearts that were ever connected to it? But the truth is there is no sense in what happened to Jarrod. None that I can see. I wish I had a better answer, but I don't.

Samantha Young

#57. Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Diane Ackerman

#58. Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#59. What do you think an artist is? ... he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Pablo Picasso

#60. It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.

Clifford Riley

#61. My heart was beating like mad even as I felt it breaking in two. It was too much, not enough, everything I'd ever wanted and nothing I could have. Could a person die from this?

T. Torrest

#62. You have the heart one expects to see at the centre of a fire, bending and twisting like steel, but never breaking. If something happens to mine, yours would be stubborn enough to beat for both of us.

Pam Godwin

#63. Bleeding for a decade
For a decade,
We bleed like there is no hell but the earth
We bleed like we were born to dare
We bleed like there is nothing alive inside.
We find a clue
After a decade
Bleeding is just to breath
Simply keeps us alive.

Arzum Uzun

#64. You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

Jean Nidetch

#65. I'd walked to school like it was any other day. Like my heart wasn't breaking. Like my head wasn't reeling and my feet weren't weighted down by the sudden and tragic onset of clinical depression, making each breath a trial, each step a struggle. I totally needed a car.

Darynda Jones

#66. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

#67. A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

Thomas Brooks

#68. This is a dance for all the lovers
Takin' a chance for one another
Finally it's our time now

These are the times that we'll remember
Breaking the city's heart together
Finally it's our time now, it's our time now

Plain White T's

#69. I don't mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person ...

Kaje Harper

#70. Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man

L. Frank Baum

#71. BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

Elizabeth Bear

#72. A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#73. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz

#74. And my heart is breaking
My heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tears
I keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered

Paula Heller Garland

#75. If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Oswald Chambers

#76. Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.

Cinda Williams Chima

#77. Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.

Christina Rossetti

#78. A crazy place in my mind laughs to keep the world and my heart from breaking in two.

Tim Miller

#79. The Truth burns the heart like a hammer breaking a rock.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#81. I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

Billy Connolly

#82. I'm not leaving you. I'm just not going to sneak around with you. You have a life." She bit her lip, looking down. "I don't blame you for that. But - " "I know," I said, feeling as if my heart was breaking open in my chest. "We deserve more than that.

Mia Sheridan

#83. What happens to someone who hits rock bottom after breaking up with the love of their life? There was no rehab for a broken heart.

Lisa De Jong

#84. Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

Philippa Gregory

#85. It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.

Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

#86. You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

J.J. Abrams

#87. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

L. Frank Baum

#88. She loved him, and her heart was breaking. If she had known how much it hurt to love someone, she never would have given away her heart. But it wasn't a question of giving as much as falling.

Lynn Austin

#89. I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.

Carrie Anne Noble

#90. He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart.

Anne Tyler

#91. I'm mistaken ... .
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.

Coco J. Ginger

#92. I warned him, Kylar. She was a lovely, careless girl. The kind of woman born without a heart, so she couldn't imagine breaking anyone else's.

Brent Weeks

#93. The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.

Chuck Palahniuk

#94. Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.

Ray A. Davis

#95. Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

James Anthony Froude

#96. How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Rumi

#97. A fierce hand gripped my chest, squeezing my lungs. No. it wasn't my lungs. It was my heart. It was breaking.
Wasn't I stronger than this?

Anna Sheehan

#98. ... breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan ... and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us.

Glenn Duncan

#99. That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

Jane Green

#100. Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.

Summer Sanders