1. Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

2. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

- George Bernard Shaw

3. Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

- Miranda Kenneally

4. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

- D.H. Lawrence

5. Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?

- J.C. Reed

6. There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

- Ashley Lorenzana

7. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

- Mineko Iwasaki

8. Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

- Gregory Roberts

9. There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

- Tamara Webber

10. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

11. Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

- Jeffery Eugenides

12. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

- Richard Wilbur

13. God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.

- Unknown

14. 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

15. 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

16. Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

- Rae Hachton

17. Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

18. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

- Shane Koyczan

19. Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.

- Drake

20. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.

- Pearl S. Buck

21. I’m not supposed to miss you, I’m not supposed to care.

- Debra Cox

22. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

- Faraaz Kazi

23. Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

24. You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.

- Unknown

25. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

- Robin Sharma

26. The hottest love has the coldest end.

- Socrates

27. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

- Andrea Gibson

28. A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.

- Unknown

29. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

- Rae Hacton

30. You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.

- Stelle Atwater

31. Sometimes… Sometimes our hearts…crack a little.

- Brodi Ashton

32. Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one. Break their bones, they have 206 of those!

- Jayy Von Monroe

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

- Wallace Stegner

34. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

- Mark Twain

35. You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

- Isabel Gillies

36. I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

- Heidi Klum

37. I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

38. The heart will break, but broken live on.

- Lord Byron

39. Only time can heal your broken heart.

- Miss Piggy

40. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

- D.H. Lawrence

41. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

42. You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

- Douglas Booth

43. I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.

- Julia Roberts

44. So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

- E.A. Bucchianeri

45. When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

- Jodi Thomas

46. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

47. The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.

- Margaret George

48. Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.

- Patti Roberts

49. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

50. Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.

- Jodi Picoult

51. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

- Mineko Iwasaki

52. I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.

- Sara Evans

53. I wish I were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.

- Julia Roberts

54. Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

- Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms

55. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

- Leo Buscaglia

56. No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

- Faraaz Kazi

57. It’s funny how artistic we become when our hearts are broken.

- Hotel Books, I Always Thought I Would Be Okay

58. When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realize it’s about making the most of life.

- Britney Spears

59. It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.

- Allen Ginsberg

60. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

- J.S.B Morse

61. Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?

- Debra K. Messer

62. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

- Nicholas Sparks

63. Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.

- Rita Stradling

64. Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

- H.L. Mencken

65. The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.

- Robert James Waller

66. ‘Hearts are breakable,’ Isabelle said. ‘And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.’

- Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

67. I’ve been on the floor and I’ve been heartbroken. I didn’t know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

- Sandra Bullock

68. A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying ‘Long time no see.’

- Phyllis Batelle

69. Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

- Jon Voight

70. You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

- Truman Capote

71. I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

- Sue Augustine

72. The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

- Mary Kay Andrews

73. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

- Andrea Gibson

74. Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.

- Javan

75. When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

- Sienna Miller

76. The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.

- Charles Dickens

77. I know what it’s like to have a broken heart. I know what it’s like to feel pain: When my songs don’t become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

- Diane Warren

78. The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.

- William Faulkner

79. There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.

- Pearl Buck

80. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

- Fulton Sheen

81. So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.

- Ariana

82. Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.

- The Tinman, The Wizard of Oz

83. Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

- Oprah Winfrey

84. It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

- Sara Teasdale

85. I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

- Charlotte Ericksson

86. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.

- Warsan Shire

87. Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.

- Ashleyy

88. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.

- Jodi Lynn Anderson