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God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you...

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I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

When we lose one we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

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Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when i...

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And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was t...

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I gave you the best of me.

I don't know you. The only thing I know about you is, you're reading this. I don't know if your happ...

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Nick HornbyA Long Way Down

Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.

The heart was made to be broken.

When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise...

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Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his path...

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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the in...

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It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence o...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...

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Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly yo...

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DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have th...

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It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Bef...

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But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,My heart is sair for Somebody.

This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and depr...

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Robert PinskyThe Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow

Though I know he loves me tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams ...

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It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being s...

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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, t...

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Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...

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Stephen KingHearts in Atlantis

...there are worse things than losing the girl.

How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and...

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It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...

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Susan SontagReborn: Journals and Notebooks

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like ...

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There’s something so beautiful about people who are heartbroken; they think about how they’re feelin...

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It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the r...

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As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know ...

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I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I ...

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you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memori...

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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when t...

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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my hear...

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Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...

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I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!

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

Have you ever longed for someone so much, so deeply that you thought you would die? That your heart ...

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The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no t...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, b...

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Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and...

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Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked ...

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

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more elo...

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heart...

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Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another...

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Yann MartelThe High Mountains of Portugal

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

There pass the careless peopleThat call their souls their own:Here by the road I loiter,How idle and...

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Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others ...

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Alan MooreDC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to...

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A photograph may speak to the photographer's envy or disappointment just as much as it may reveal hi...

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Alexander McCall SmithChance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories

When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite convers...

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Alice WalkerHer Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned....

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Falling down ain't falling down,If you don't cry when you hit the floor,It's called the past cause I...

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Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel li...

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When the anesthesia of love wears off,you suffer the pain of consequence.

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Amy TanSaving Fish from Drowning

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies ...

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My love is of a birth as rareAs 'tis, for object, strange and high;It was begotten by DespairUpon Im...

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You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good nat...

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I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feel...

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I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthi...

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My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt...

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Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throa...

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The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale gr...

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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very t...

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Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does f...

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Our silence about grief serves no one. We can't heal if we can't grieve; we can't forgive if we can'...

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I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who...

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You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.He didn...

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But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t...

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Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be...

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What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They ...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Fallen Angels

I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec...

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But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are...

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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Could you really love two different people at once? Could you split your heart in half?

He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your so...

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we know God is dead, they’ toldus, but listening to you I wasn’ sure. maybeit was the upper case. yo...

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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wound...

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