Quotes & Sayings About Painful Heartbreak

One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey. — Miriam Toews

You were my dream and I was just your fantasy. — Nikki Rowe

Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch. — Anonymous

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. — Robin McKinley

Feels pain when the love of one hand clapping
but more painful when the person you love turns out never happy living with you. — M.Rivai

This is what I've come to believe about change: it's good, in the way that childbirth is good, and heartbreak is good, and failure is good. By that I mean that it's incredibly painful, exponentially more so if you fight it, and also that it has the potential to open you up, to open life up, to deliver you right into the palm of God's hand, which is where you wanted to be all along, except that you were too busy pushing and pulling your life into exactly what you thought it should be. — Shauna Niequist

Life is painful, and we carry with us so much disappointment and heartbreak. But I'm fighting to save some space inside me where I can create hope. — Shauna Niequist

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all. — Jason Robert Brown

Heartbreak is the most painful kind of torture, and the mind is its greatest ally." - — Ellie Wade

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated. The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. If mentioned, it tends to be in caustic, mocking terms, as something of interest chiefly to envious or deficient souls, or else the drive for status is interpreted in an economic sense alone. And yet this second love story is no less intense than the first, it is no less complicated, important or universal, and its setbacks are no less painful. There is heartbreak here too. — Alain De Botton

Remembrance is a strange thing. With love its pain is bearable. With bitterness it simply destroys. — Elaine Di Rollo

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. — Nicholas Sparks

The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter. — Megan Wilson

Please understand. Please forgive me.
I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.
Don't hate me.
I still love you. — Lauren Oliver

Our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us — John Geddes

She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing. — Sarah Dunn

Memory is sweet.
Even when it's painful, memory is sweet. — Li-Young Lee

Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness — Munia Khan

It's messy to love after heartbreak. It's painful and it forces you to be honest with yourself about who you are. You have to work harder to find the words for your feelings, because they don't fit into any prefabricated boxes.

But it's worth it.

Because look what you get:

Great loves.

Meaningful loves.

True loves. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone. — Julie Johnson

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable. — Oscar Wilde

Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.
The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after. — Nikki Rowe

A heartbreak isn't as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most painful thing is no one really hears except you. — Anonymous

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master. — James E. Faust

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill. — Jojo Moyes

To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought that love was freedom. — Tessa Shaffer