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I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.
...my soul bleeding tears of anguish
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.
My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
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