Top 100 Breaking Heart Quotes
#1. My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best ... my very best, I set you free
Rachael Yamagata
#2. Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
Kate Braverman
#3. I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine?
Kamila Shamsie
#4. Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
Leigh Hunt
#5. The life of woman is full of woe,
Toiling on and on and on,
With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
The secret longings that arise,
Which this world never satisfies!
Some more, some less, but of the whole
Not one quite happy, no, not one!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#6. I am not surprised of your goodbye, breaking heart and leaving behind; maybe these are what angels do for fun.
M.F. Moonzajer
#8. 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
#9. He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart a coaxed it into a new rhythm. A rhythm so sweet, so captivating, so enticing, I can't get enough.
Angela Morrison
#10. 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
#11. I wonder what sound a breaking heart makes?
Yuri Olyesha
#12. I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?
Richelle Mead
#13. Please say you'll marry me, Kit, because you're breaking my heart.
Suzanne Enoch
#14. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#15. 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
#16. And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
Elvis Costello
#17. If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Oswald Chambers
#18. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.
Josemaria Escriva
#19. I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful.
Peter Heller
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I try to smile, but my heart's breaking all over again. Because I know that I can't stay here.
Cynthia Hand
#23. Why is It called breaKing news cause it might break your heart or mIndset
Efiba Progress
#25. For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.
Thomas A Kempis
#26. 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
#27. I though you said it was easy, listening to your heart. I thought you said I'd be okay. So why am I breaking apart.
Miley Cyrus
#28. 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
#29. Save One Heart [20w]
If you can save one heart from breaking
without breaking yours
it is as if you have saved the world.
Beryl Dov
#31. 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
#32. A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking
Helen Steiner Rice
#33. Forgive me for lying. Forgive me for breaking your heart.
Lauren Blakely
#34. She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn't understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.
Shannon A. Thompson
#35. Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man
L. Frank Baum
#36. 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
#37. 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
#39. 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
#40. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. 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
#42. The worst feeling in the world is the feeling of your heart breaking from the person who mend it in the first place.
Me
#43. I stare at him, listening to my heart thump inside my chest, to the wind sing, to the sound of someone breaking somewhere in the world.
Jessica Sorensen
#44. I followed my heart without breaking any rules.
Confucius
#45. Good-bye, Pen Leland. If we meet again, maybe in London next season, you'll pardon me if I don't pursue an acquaintance with you. It's hard to chat about the weather when one's heart is breaking -
Marissa Doyle
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
#49. In trying to stop your tears, I was already obeying the officer's command to the letter, not out of patriotic allegiance, but out of cowardice, in order not to feel the pain of my own heart, breaking.
Ruth Ozeki
#50. Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.
Billy Graham
#51. 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
#52. You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Rumi
#54. And before she could help herself, her heart was breaking for him. Like it didn't have anything better to break over.
Rainbow Rowell
#55. It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.
Elvis Costello
#56. I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.
Nicolle Wallace
#57. Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.
Martha Beck
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.
Clifford Riley
#61. Don't you ever let another put their hands on something that's already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#62. My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.
Pittacus Lore
#64. 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
#65. You take the breath right out of me
You left a hole where my heart should be
Breaking Benjamin
#66. But you can't find love if you're not willing to lose it. You can't find happiness if you're not willing to risk being sad. And you can't find the love of your life without risking breaking your heart.
Kunal Nayyar
#67. All I know is that it's breaking my mother's heart for me to be in here. I can stand it; I don't know if she can.
Peter Seth
#69. Then I tell you that sadness, in a way, is just another form of beauty. It can be a bit more melancholic, dramatic, heart-breaking and so, so quiet. The most emotional of things, finding its reflection in the world in decay, are those things we love the most from time to time.
Kate Luysterborg
#70. 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
#71. Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure for their vested interests. It's a conspiracy to grab power through the backdoor ...
Narendra Modi
#72. How could I share the
way my heart was breaking
when my confessor
didn't believe
Ellen Hopkins
#73. The sun reflects off the side mirror, momentarily blinding me. And all I can think is: how is the sun shining when my heart is breaking?
Cheryl McIntyre
#74. I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking.
- Lena
Jacqueline Woodson
#75. Fro and to in my dreams to you
To the haunting tune of the harp
For the price I paid when you died that day
I paid that day with my heart
Fro and to in my dreams to you
With the breaking of my heart
Ne'er more again will I sing this song
Ne'er more will I hear the harp.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon
and please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
Thomas Otway
#77. Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
Diane Ackerman
#78. Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea ... creativity and stupid are interchangeable ... because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.
Richie Norton
#79. 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
#80. Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other's heart.
Thomas Pynchon
#81. Nikolai felt his heart breaking at the unfairness of a universe which let good people suffer while evildoers walked free and unpunished.
Adele Hamaludin
#82. 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
#83. Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.
V.S. Carnes
#84. His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down.
Bram Stoker
#85. 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
#86. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#87. Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.
Maggie Smith
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.
Trent Shelton
#91. Sometimes the heart breaks... Sometimes you break... Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn't do the same...
Marston James
#92. We live by waters breaking out of the heart.
Anne Carson
#93. Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#94. For who can stop the heart from breaking?
Alan Paton
#95. 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
#96. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
#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. She braced herself for the pain of the perfect horn breaking her heart.
Tanith Lee
#100. Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.
Richelle Mead
