Love & Romance: Heartbreak Quotes

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"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"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, Journalist

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes"

Michelangelo, Artist

Michelangelo

"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born"

Michelangelo, Artist

Michelangelo

"The day breaks not, it is my heart"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

Monica Lewinsky

"All love is unrequited. All of it"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

J. Michael Straczynski

"You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

Camille Claudel

"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

Camille Claudel

"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

Camille Claudel

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent!"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future"

Stendhal, Writer

"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

Monica Bellucci

"We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it"

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson

"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; men a longer life than dogs do; dogs a longer life than love does"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"Hell, madam, is to love no longer"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness, I can never repay you"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

Arthur Ashe

"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes"

Iris Murdoch, Author

Iris Murdoch

"I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

Frankie Avalon

"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is"

Iris Murdoch, Author

Iris Murdoch

"Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

Krzysztof Kieslowski

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

Francis Ford Coppola

"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us"

John Gay, Poet

"I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

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