732 Quotes About Heartache

If I believed that, then I’d have to believe it was fate for Kyle to die at such a young age. I’d much rather believe shit just happens.Injured in a fire? Shit happens.Lost your career? Shit happens.Lost the love of your life to a widow with an infant? Shit happens.

Our core addiction is to struggle. All of the other addictions are an attempt to numb out from the heartache and stress that come hand and hand with struggle.

But the old maxim still applies: Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Death is the truth that melts frozen hearts.

I love you."He breaks.His voice. His back. His knees. His face. He breaks. He has to hold on to the side of his desk. He can't meet my eyes. "I love you," he says, his words harsh and soft all at once. "I love you and it isn't enough. I thought it would be enough and I was wrong. I thought I could fight for you and I was wrong. Because I can't. I can't even face you anymore--

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.

I must confess, that myheart is like a frozen lake,only pretends to be firm, to shroud its tearful ache.So tread over this heart, as often as you like,but one of these days,if it feels your warmth strike;its cold, thin surfacewill abruptly break asunder,and then it won’t resist from pulling you deep under.

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left unmoored, the boat gradually drifts out to sea. It pops into my head when I wake in the mornings, while I walk the streets, wait for the bus, the train, get into cabs, eat lunch alone, and browse the shelves at the library.