sad love quotes for broken hearts

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel



During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. ~Melissa Bank



I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born. ~Paula Cole, "Tiger," This Fire



Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ~Garrison Keillor



Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn



Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes. ~E. Haldeman-Julius, The Church Is a Burden, Not a Benefit, In Social Life



We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown



Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. ~George D. Prentice



Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960



Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf



A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible



Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. ~Sherry Anderson (Thanks, Kathy)



If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." ~Lyndon B. Johnson



But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. ~Genesis 3:19



Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line. ~Ann Landers



Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. ~Francis Bacon



If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson