30 Quotes About The-death-of-the-heart

You and I are enough to break anyone's heart—how can we not break our own?

There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.

You don't much like anything, do you?""No, nothing," said Anna, smiling her nice fat malign smile.

What do you want me to say?""I wish you would say something. Our life goes by without any comment.

He left her and looked round for his glass again. Meanwhile, he said to himself in a quoting voice: "We are minor in everything but our passions.""Wherever did you read that?""Nowhere: I woke up and heard myself saying it, one night.""How pompous you were in the night. I'm so glad I was asleep.

You think I exaggerate.""At the moment—""Well, this sort of moment never really stops . . .

What's in your mind, I suppose, is, why should you rise to occasions when I don't? Let's face it—who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

The place gave out a look of hollow desuetude, as though its desertion would last forever.

All the days that go by only make me seem to be getting further and further away from the day I last saw Eddie, not nearer and nearer the day I shall see him again.