Quotes on Breakup

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.

I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out.

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.

[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.