Heartbreak Song Quotes

#1. People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.

Joe Goddard

#2. A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brittany Howard

#3. Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

Elvis Presley

#4. When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And ... that's ridiculous, but so am I.

Tegan Quin

#5. There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.

Nina LaCour

#6. I miss everything about you
Can't believe that I still want you
And after all the things we've been through

Colbie Caillat

#7. Some things a heart won't listen to, I'm still holding out for you

SHeDAISY

#8. There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

Lisa Loeb

#9. ...To search for colours, fumble for words,
Strive to catch in earthly song
The echo of greater music,
To fail with heartbreak and give
The heartbreaks to each other with our love,
Can this be why we live?

Elizabeth Goudge

#10. You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

Taylor Swift

#11. The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.

John Green

#12. I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

Nikki Sixx

#13. Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.

Auliq Ice

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

Marty Rubin

#16. I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.

Ray Charles

#17. The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

George Carlin

#18. Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore.

Anna McPartlin

#19. You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Dolly Parton

#20. 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

#21. I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people

Pink

#22. Because you let our love just fall apart
You no longer have my heart

Boyz II Men

#23. I am her heartbreak at night.
I am her tears come the dawn.
I am her all that was right,
now turned horrible wrong.
I took her happy away,
replaced with an ache so strong.
I made her regret the day
she played me her favorite song.

Kirk Diedrich

#24. Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

Jason Robert Brown

#25. Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

Randall Jarrell

#26. Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

Tim McGraw

#27. He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

Aldous Huxley

#28. Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right along with the singer. The right song speaks to your soul in a way nothing else can. It's magic.

Cindi Madsen

#29. This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you're so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape's holding!

Sara Quin

#30. Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

Ashlee Simpson

#31. All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

Sarah Silverman