sad quotes about broken hearts

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. ~Elizabeth Bowen



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



There are no facts, only interpretations. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Hail to the thief! ~Author Unknown



If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names. ~Elbert Hubbard



I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. ~Thomas Lux



Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ~James D. Finley



It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. ~J.C. Snead, on his putting



Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero



Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir



Fear cannot take what you do not give it. ~Christopher Coan



Her face was her chaperone. ~Rupert Hughes



Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. ~Winston Churchill



You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh



A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracian



If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus



I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege. ~Jack Binion



After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. ~Emily Luchetti



It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace



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