Good Heartbreak Quotes

#1. It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Toni Morrison

#2. Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Miranda Lambert

#3. I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

Saul Williams

#4. She knew Neal loved her.
Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

Charlaine Harris

#6. The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it
as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back

Lauren Barnholdt

#7. Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

Tristan Wilds

#8. If I love you more than you love me, I'm as good as dead. Yet I can't make myself take it back. I can't just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I'm dying inside.

Rachel Vincent

#9. The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

Paul Di Filippo

#10. Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

Jessica Lowndes

#11. Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.

Anna Godbersen

#12. You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it
In my good natured way.
In fact, I'm laughing less in general,
But I learned a lot at my own funeral.
And I knew you'd be the death of me,
So I guess that's the price I pay.

Ani DiFranco

#13. So while I can spin my fantasy whenever I wish, I'm afraid you wouldn't do for me."
Sarcasm dripped from her every word. "You're good at imagining, so pray imagine my heartbreak.

Christina Dodd

#14. One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.

Miriam Toews

#15. I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could.

Alexa Chung

#16. I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.

Kate Stewart

#17. She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm ...

Michelle Herman

#18. Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Miranda Lambert

#19. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Anne Hathaway

#20. IT'S EASY to long for nothing but good news and carefree days, but a full life includes the broken and dark and difficult parts, too. Thank God for walking with you in the seasons of heartbreak.

Shauna Niequist

#21. But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. Casper didn't give me direction for what to do if somebody I used to really like-like, somebody who would be somebody good to love, somebody right, somebody who understood about me, turned out to not have the same ideas about me.

Kathleen Glasgow

#23. I can't take anymore heartbreak," I confessed on a broken whisper.
"Then it's a good thing I'm not going to break your heart." He leaned down and pressed a kiss to my lips.

Rachel Higginson

#24. All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of
a good reason not to be with him

Chris Manby

#25. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Fulton J. Sheen

#26. Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.

Shannon A. Thompson

#27. Alex chuckled and whispered in her ear. I'm feeling huge ... I mean I have this huge desire ... Crap, you feel good tonight. And you smell so good.

Melisa M. Hamling

#28. Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.

Mary E. Pearson

#29. Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too.

Augustine Sam

#30. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.

Jenim Dibie

#31. If only everything were like that. It's not easy to do: owning and accepting the pain of our past, the heartbreak, our misgivings, and using them for good. Make our lives better not in spite of it all...but because of it.

J.B. Salsbury

#32. Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for the love of a good man. It humbled me.

Michelle Orange

#33. People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine or I promise, they will just walk on by.

Ava Ayers

#34. I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Jay Baruchel

#35. I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.

John Steinbeck

#36. What good is a song that doesn't break your heart?

Marty Rubin

#37. Like no longer having something could be a good thing, and the proof of it as well. I was used to the opposite, when absence equaled heartbreak.

Sarah Dessen

#38. Before he finally hops on his borad, he hugs me good-bye and we hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our heartbreak were one instead of two.

Jandy Nelson