Love & Romance: Heartbreak Quotes

Judith Rossner, Novelist

"Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; and the thing that I call living is just being satisfied with knowing I've got no one left to blame"

Gordon Lightfoot, Musician

"I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought"

Carrie Snodgress, Actress

"Every time I find a picture of him with other women, or read in magazines that he's involved with 'groupies,' I don't go and show up where he is making a huge scene and getting our faces put all over the TV and papers"

Kim Mathers, Celebrity

"When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion"

George Etherege, Dramatist

"It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps, depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend, and the next moment you're gonna be like, 'screw him,' you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself 'God, I'm in love'"

Willa Ford, Musician

"The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill"

Todd Rundgren, Musician

"And I was desolate and sick of an old passion"

Ernest Dowson, Poet

"And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands"

David Gest, Celebrity

"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business"

Ida Lupino, Actress

"The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"It's heartbreaking, but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while"

Rose McGowan, Actress

"I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him"

Rosario Dawson, Actress

"The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be"

John Ashbery, Poet

"Love hurts more than hate"

Michael Todd, Producer

"People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy"

James Branch Cabell, Novelist

"I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked"

Fanny Brice, Comedian

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

Wallace Stegner, Novelist

"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people"

Jane Horrocks, Actress

"There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life"

Heather Mills, Activist

"I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart"

Leon Redbone, Musician

"It was funny, actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags, or whatever"

Rosario Dawson, Actress

"Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone"

Franco Nero, Actor

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

Thomas Otway, Dramatist

"I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life"

Edgar Rice Burroghs, Writer

"I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention"

Deana Carter, Musician

"When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master"

Robert Bridges, Poet

"You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60"

Linda Evans, Actress

"My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world"

Henry Fonda, Actor

"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"Everybody knows that love goes away"

Jennifer Tilly, Actress

"Love comes unseen; we only see it go"

Austin Dobson, Celebrity

"But I thought love would more than prevail"

David Gest, Celebrity

"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead"

Conrad Aiken, Author

"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair"

Freddy Fender, Musician

"There was just something about me she did not like"

Andy Griffith, Actor

"I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cow's disease"

Dominic Monaghan, Actor

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