quotes for heartbroken

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II



Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. ~Stanley Crawford



I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~Dave Barry



Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius



People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di



Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ~Norman Mailer



Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets



Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. ~Paul Valery



Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. ~William Shakespeare Poor Popeye. If only he had eaten purslane instead of spinach, he wouldn't have had so much trouble with the bad guy, Pluto. ~Jim O'Brien



Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. ~Alfred North Whitehead



An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ~William Alger



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



History is a vast early warning system. ~Norman Cousins



I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. ~Napoleon



To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius



If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~Bert R. Sugar



What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden