2,421 Quotes About Heartbreak

For this my mother wrapped me warm,And called me home against the storm,And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,And gave me roughage in my diet,And tucked me in my bed at eight,And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,And watched me as I sat and stood:That I might grow to womanhood To hear a whistle and drop my witsAnd break my heart to clattering bits.

And in the times of sufferingthe body neglect the soulthe way the rivers neglect the ashes ofthe dead they hold

Some days you'r just a wisp of nothingness.But other days... most days,I hear you in a song,I see you in an image,I feel you in my memories!

There are rules you've gotta follow when you fuck to forget. A body's only a temple if and when you treat it like one, but a heart can still break even if you never put it together properly in the first place.

Coming down for the thousandth time, I'm perched on the precipice of a billion broken promises. I'm speeding through the intersections of my own broken heartstrings, blowing red lights and ignoring red flags. I'm thinking, 'history repeats itself.' I'm wondering why. The world outside is still happening also.

Another piano falls, but this time it’s me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever.

It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.

But her heart was hurting her with its violence.

I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead.