Broken Heart Grief Quotes

#1. You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Rumi

#2. The heart aches through nights - the broken places of neglect

John Geddes

#3. It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

Ovid

#4. The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.

Lawren Leo

#6. 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

#7. Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

George R R Martin

#8. I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.

Morgan Matson

#9. If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Emma Thompson

#10. There is no greater grief than that of a man with a broken heart who only just learned he had a heart at all.

Daniel Wallace

#11. It's like she has her heart in her hand and it's broken. She's holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it's my heart.

Nyrae Dawn

#12. There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again.

Nikki Rowe

#13. My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

Patrick Ness

#15. My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

Sanhita Baruah

#16. These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

Amaury Nolasco

#17. Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life?

Serena Valentino

#19. It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she could barely bring herself to breathe.

Blake Crouch

#20. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

Faraaz Kazi

#21. But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.

Khadija Rupa

#22. He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Ellis Peters

#23. The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#24. If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Ellen Glasgow

#25. My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.

Jesikah Sundin

#26. Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.

Joseph G. Peterson