I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated.
-Carrie Latet

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
- Tabitha Suzuma

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
-Jan Glidewell

Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.
- Patti Roberts

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- Dahli Lama

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 I lived.
- Margaret Mitchell

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

He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.
- Tristan J. Loo

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 messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

Every heart that is not broken is not a heart.
- Frederic Beigbeder

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
- Oscar Wilde

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.
- Marlene Dietrich

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.
- Neil Gaiman

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
- Phyllis Battelle

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
- Gilbert Parker

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
- Stephen King

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
-Albert Smith

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
-Jewish Proverb