Welcome to Broken Heart Quotes.  Unfortunately, at some point in life, we all experience a broken heart. Fortunately, our hearts are strong and the love that exists within our own heart will mend a broken heart. While we are in the experience of pain, it is sometimes helpful to read Broken  Heart Quotes to help us express to ourselves and others what we are feeling. We hope you enjoy our site and come back often as there are many words of wisdom to explore. If you are suffering a broken heart today, we send you love.

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What is the opposite of two?  A lonely me, a lonely you.  ~Richard Wilbur

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~Jean de La Fontaine

I don’t know why they call it heartbreak.  It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.  ~Missy Altijd

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.  ~Rosa Parks

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.  ~Lamartine

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I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead.Alone, most strangely, I live on. ~Rupert Brooke

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.  ~Author Unknown

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. ~Edmund Spenser

Love is like a puzzle.  When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.  ~Author Unknown

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold:  The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem

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

Bad as I like ye, it’s worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.  Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.  ~Author Unknown

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Don’t worry about losing.  If it is right, it happens
The Main thing is not to hurry.
Nothing good gets away.  ~John Steinbeck

My love lies bleeding. ~Thomas Campbell

God is closest to those with broken hearts.  ~Jewish Saying

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me… the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you.
~Author Unknown

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops, and posting it.~Amy Lowell, “The Letter”
It’s not love’s going hurts my days, But that it went in little ways.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.  ~From the television show The Wonder Years

My joy was skipping
Around our love
It tripped.~Valentine Sterling

They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.  ~E. Wilder

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.  ~J.K. Rowling

Yes, I will go.  I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces

Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Maid of Athens”

Let no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie

As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.  ~Toto

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
~William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XLIII”

Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?  ~Richard Bach

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

Within you I lose myself…
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.~Author Unknown

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson,

Gone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. ~Alfred Tennyson

What is the opposite of two?  A lonely me, a lonely you.
~Richard Wilbur

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.  ~Robert Southey

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~W.S. Merwin

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.  ~William Cowper

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
~George Linley

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.  ~John Dryden

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
~Henry Alford

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.  ~Tryon Edwards

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.  ~Hans Nouwens

I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart. ~Albany Bach Reid

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.  ~Jaesse Tyler

I dropped a tear in the ocean.  The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.  ~George Lansdowne

In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?  ~Nicholas Rowe

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

Don’t be dismayed by good-byes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.  ~Richard Bach

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is true of men as of dogs.  ~Eric Hoffer

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long.  If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~Henry Maudsley

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

Let your tears come.  Let them water your soul.  ~Eileen Mayhew

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~John Vance Cheney

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ~Natalie Clifford Barney

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.  ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.  ~Jewish Proverb

I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief.  Then I know I’m really crying.  Crying just isn’t crying unless it’s messy. ~D.H. Mondfleur

I often want to cry.  That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.  ~Jean Rhys

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.  ~Lewis B. Smedes,

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.  ~Antoine Rivarol

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.  ~George Herbert

There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.  ~Roberto Assagioli

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ~Lawrence Durrell

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.  ~William Penn

Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.~Dorothy Parker

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.  ~Josh Billings

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~Mark Twain

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.  ~Ovid

Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.  ~George Eliot

Jealousy is a crutch. ~C. Astrid Weber

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.  ~Honore de Balzac

Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.~William Shakespeare, Othello

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
~Dorothy Dix

Envy is ignorance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.~William Shakespeare, Othello

I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying. ~Amborella Oltre

Envy assails the noblest:  the winds howl around the highest peaks.  ~Ovid

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ~Havelock Ellis

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  ~Danish Proverb

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. You are no longer alive.

I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.

It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.  ~Leslie Grimutter

If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. ~Mark Twain

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.

A day without you is like a day without sunshine… I miss you…

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You may be out of my sight… but never out of my mind… I Miss You!

Although we’ve come to the end of the road, still I can’t let you go, it’s unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you .

When I miss you, I don’t have to go far … I just have to look inside my heart because that’s where I’ll find you.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
~Harriet Nelson

Why is it that when you miss someone so much that your heart is ready to disintegrate, you hear the saddest song on the radio?

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”~Washington Irving

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
~Harold Lokes

The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.
Anonymous

You never lose by loving. You always lost by holding back.
Anon

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.~Kahlil Gibran

Jealousy… is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
~Anais Nin

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned…
~William Butler Yeats

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
~Samuel Butler

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.~Washington Irving

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.~William Blake

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
~Javan

The hottest love has the coldest end.~Socrates