Heartbreak & losses quotes pt.2
Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
“How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.”
― Amanda Torroni
“every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears”
― Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
“He started to estrange her…
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart,
So broken as they drifted apart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen
“Thoughts are as simple as the process…a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind”
― Jeremy Aldana
“She ached so badly to be held it felt like a sickness had invaded her muscles and bones. As usual, her own arms provided little comfort.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient
“When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor
“Then I feel I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A faint cry; I can't figure out if it's mine or if it's echoing the other half of my broken heart—the one beating in his chest.”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone
“There has to be a whole other level of pain when your soul gets ripped in half.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back
“Those words created in my heart and stomach a physical effect so sickening, so painful, that I have never since doubted that these vibrational frequencies traveling upon air can land a knock-out punch more excruciating than any fist or weapon.”
― Erin Zelinka, On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“My wounded heart, too burdened by scars, struggles even to fathom the concept of love, let alone embrace its gentle touch.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“An Ocean full of thoughts, a broken heart, and a tragic shore of insane storms.
I am trapped in a body that is not my own, a world that's too alien for my soul and an evil wounding my heart.”
― Sapppho Khizar
“When stranded in a desert, and you’re dying of thirst, a mirage is the cruelest trick the mind can play. And when you are a stranger among regular folks, and you’re in search of love, a disillusioned or misguided heart is the cruelest thing.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish
“That was the end of the integrity of their love. The succeeding days were a shambles of falseness and hypocrisy, mingled with her tears and moments of animal passion to which she abandoned herself with a greed made indecent by the hollowness of their days.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“…my father explained to me in a hushed tone that in times of extreme stress or trauma, humans of all ages will resort back to the fetal position, because it is an instinctual way to protect all our vital organs and because it reminds us of the safest place we all began, thee womb.”
― Lucy Keating, Dreamology
“This was just the world. You trusted people, you loved them, you offered them the dignity of your time and the intimacy of your thoughts and the fraility of your hope and they either accepted it and cared for it or they rejected it and destroyed it and in the end, none of it was up to you. This was just what you got. Heartbreak was inevitable. Disappointment assured.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox
“Being of heart resists no hurt,
they savor poison like fine wine.
The benevolent takes no notice of betrayal,
while the somnolent just moan and whine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“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.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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