Quotes about Heartbreak

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

This was what Alvin Finch had learned: you can break their bones, but it is far better to break their heart. Suffice it to say that he had broken the father's heart.

When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply.

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realise it's about making the most of life.

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.

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and does the heart of the world.

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and so does the heart of the world.

Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.

We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide.