Heartache Quotes and Sayings

Heartache Quotes

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

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

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

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

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.  ~Author Unknown

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

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

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

I thought when love for you died, I should die.

It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

~Rupert Brooke

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

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

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Relationships are like glass.  Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.  ~Author Unknown

I hate the day, because it lendeth light

To see all things, but not my love to see.

~Edmund Spenser

With what a deep devotedness of woe

I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again

Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,

And memory, like a drop that, night and day,

Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

~Thomas Moore

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

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, 10 November 1958

My love-lies-bleeding.  ~Thomas Campbell

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul.  Activity will cleanse and brighten it.  ~Samuel Johnson

Walking, working, barely breathing

My thoughts, far away

Heart aching, mind racing

Sleep does not come easily, nor last long....

~Peter Winstanley

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"

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.  ~From the television show The Wonder Years

It's not love's going hurts my days

But that it went in little ways.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Have you ever been in love?  Horrible isn't it?  It makes you so vulnerable.  It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.  You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.... You give them a piece of you.  They didn't ask for it.  They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.  Love takes hostages.  It gets inside you.  It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.  It hurts.  Not just in the imagination.  Not just in the mind.  It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.  I hate love.  ~Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

...Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes

Lost every day, no map to follow

Entire days, weeks, a blur

Flickers of light, in the darkness,

Only to be enveloped in shadows once more...

~Peter Winstanley

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~Terri Guillemets

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

To all the people in the world who feel empty

Grab onto a piece of my heart

For I feel empty too

And together we can make a chain of love.

~Astrid Alauda

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

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea. ~Alexander Smith

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

I prithee send me back my heart,

Since I cannot have thine;

For if from yours you will not part,

Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

~John Suckling

Yes, I will go.  I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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