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So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
Sep 29, 2025
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.
They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
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.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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?
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.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.
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.
The heart was made to be broken.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.