heartbroken quotes and poems

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here. ~Author unknown, attributed to both Dan and Barbara Hladio and Thomas Boyadjis, Sr.



What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls. ~Elie Wiesel, 1995



How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou



In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne



A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. ~Eugene M. Poirot, Our Margin of Life, 1978



When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ~Joseph Wood Krutch



A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures. ~Robert Penn Warren



A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart



Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 (Thanks, Jeff)



Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ~Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953



The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~Seneca



Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan



Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ~Orson Welles



The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa



There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. ~Robert Smith Surtees, "Chapter XXX: Bolting the Badger," Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853



You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns



In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Spock from Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold"



How come there's only one Monopolies Commission? ~Nigel Rees



Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller



Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer