Quotes About Heartbreak

People suffering from heartbreak find their body and mind reacting strangely even in normal situations. They experience mood swings. They avoid places and people that bring up nostalgic memories. And heartbreak songs make them weep uncontrollably. If you are facing a similar heartbreak syndrome, don't despair. Here are soothing quotes about heartbreak. Even if you can't get your love interest back, you may still be able to move on with your life and become a stronger human being.

James Matthew Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Herman Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

La Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Wallace Stegner
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Sufi Epigram
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

Antonia S. Byatt
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Anonymous
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Jerry B. Jenkins
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.