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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.
People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act.
Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.
Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
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.
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost died from broken heart because of love. And she really did.
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.