Quotes on My Heart Is Broken

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

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

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

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'.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.