heartache quotes

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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"


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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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


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