Top 50 Quotes on Heart Break

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Sometimes the pain comes from a heart break or a love that has been lost. Grief over the death of a loved one could also cause your heart to feel as if it has been shattered to pieces. Even the betrayal of a friend might lead your heart to mourn a loss. These types of heartbreak are all very different, but they stir up similar feelings deep inside and set us on a journey of healing and recovery.

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  1. “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.”
  2. “I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.” 
  3. “You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.”
  4. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” 
  5. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” 
  6. “Hearts are made to be broken.”
  7. “Was it hard?” I ask.Letting go?” Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real.”
  8. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
  9. Love didn’t hurt you. Someone that didn’t know how to love hurt you.
  10. “I think you are wrong to want a heart.”
  11.  “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.”
  12. You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart.
  13. A broken heart is an experience that all of us share, yet only experience alone.
  14. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
  15. Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one. Break their bones, they have 206 of those!
  16. The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.
  17. Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.
  18. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.
  19. Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
  20. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.
  21. “We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.”
  22. “Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.”
  23. However, despite this pain, life goes on.
  24. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
  25. “In the depths of sorrow we will eventually find an unwavering light.” – Unknown
  26. When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.
  27. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
  28.  “Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you’re holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you’re lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.” 
  29. I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
  30. Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.