Read the most common quotes and quotations about broken hearts, feeling lovelorn and breaking up.

  • I’m at a point in my life where I only want to be around joyous, healthy people.
    (Catherine Keener alias Adele Lack in Synecdoche, New York)
  • To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love ist simply awful.
    (Bess Myerson)
  • Forget who hurt you yesterday, but don’t forget who loves you tenderly today.
    (anonymous)
  • It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.
    (Allen Ginsberg, 1926 ‘1997)
  • One day you will seek love and be sorry that you threw away mine.
    (anonymous)
  • A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
    (George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)
  • “When I look, I see. When I see, I live. It’s that simple.”
    (JM)
  • Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
    (Helen Rowland, 1875-1950)
  • Had we never lov’d sae kindly, Had we never lov’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – we had never been broken-hearted.
    (Robert Burns, 1759 ‘1796)
  • How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
    (Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
  • It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more.
    It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
    (George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)

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