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“Everyone is an idiot when it comes to matters of the heart. Love is the great equalizer. Whenever you feel intimidated by someone’s coolness, just imagine them sobbing in their bedroom after someone broke their heart. I guarantee it’s happened.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 25 Things You Should Know About Love
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Heartbreak, Heartache
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
— Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell
Tagged: Love, Bitter, Breakups, Pain, Heartbreak, Heartache
“People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all of their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them, don’t.

Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere… and though the cut is long gone, the pain still lingers.

What’s worse? New wounds, which are so horribly painful, or old wounds, which should have healed years ago, and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we’ve been, and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That’s what we like to think.

But that’s not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over… again.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Scars and Souvenirs
Tagged: Scars, wounds, emotional pain, Heartache, Healing
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that only keep us in fear.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Protect, broken, hurt, Heartache, Life
“I was dying on the inside, aching for all that we’d lost, and as I stared at our wedding photograph, I hated myself for allowing it to happen.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding (Novel Learning Series Book 2)
Tagged: Lost Love, Hate And Love, Heartache, Blame, wedding, Divorce, Fighting Couple, Endings
“I'm tired of waiting by the phone, and second-guessing what a guy says and trusting someone not to hurt me. Again. I've been storming the relationship castle for fifteen years, and I still don't have my prince. I've got a bunch of battle scars from the field and I want to go home and nurse my wounds. I don't want to fight anymore.”
— Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
Tagged: Dating, Heartache, Lies
“As I lay here tonight I keep thinking
How long ago for you I was crazy
And this night moves right along my mind and much my situation,
And I'm feeling mighty cold and unhappy.
And the songs I hear, they don't seem like they're changing
And my time spent leaving far exceeds the times that I stayed
And this way of speaking doesn't bring me comfort anymore
It's like someone took the flame right out of me.”
— Brenda Weiler, Swimming
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Music, Fear Of Commitment, Lost Love, Leaving, Heartache
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it.
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.”
— Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Heartache, Poetry
“You remind Anna, if she asks why
That a thief stole my heart while she was making up her mind
I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool
And goes crazy over that New York scene on 7th Avenue.

But I used to wait at the diner a million nights without her
Praying she won't cancel again tonight
And the waiter served my coffee with a consolation sigh
You remind Anna, if she asks why.”
— Gaslight Anthem, Here's Lookin At You, Kid
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Heartache, Love, New York City, Brooklyn, Love Truths
“But nobody never gonna tell you the way
You gotta figure it out, boys, and suffer the rain
And the fools in the night and the heat of the day
When all you ever really wanted was for someone to understand”
— Gaslight Anthem, Film Noir
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Heartache
“You keep making poetry
out of people who never stayed
as if all the pretty words
in the world can
cover up the heartache.”
— Genefe Navilon, via Tumblr
Tagged: Heartache, Heart Break, Pain, Love, poem, Poetry, My Favorites, Poetry From Loss, Poetic Words
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
— Douglas Coupland, Life After God
Tagged: broken, People, Life, Growing Up, Pain, Heartache
“And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying
As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet
Rings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you
For the rest of your life when you're ready”
— Neutral Milk Hotel, Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2
Tagged: Heartache, Song Lyrics, Poetry, Missing Someone, Loss
“If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumours on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb the stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.”
— Leonard Cohen, Poem
Tagged: Poetry, Heartache, Insecurity
“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Hot Shot
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Betrayal, Perserverance, Choosing Love, Pain, Heartbreak, Heartache
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Tagged: Pain, Heartache, Sadness, Starting Over, Moving On
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”
— Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
Tagged: Pain, Heartache, Fighting Back, Suffering, Sadness, hurt
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: Life, Change, Losing, Gaining, Pain, Heartache, Starting Over, ENFP
“A woman is often a wonderful thing. And you are. But in you, as in all of them, is the indifference of Carmen, the joy in cruelty of Cleopatra, the tyrannical marble-heartedness of Katherine De Medici, and the cold glitter of all the passionless despots of men’s warm souls since sex first originated — since Eve broke the heart of humanity forever and laughed with sadistic joy at Adam sweating blood on the rack she made for him. All those things are most in you now. They are always predominant in a woman who is passionately loved but who loves not at all herself. Women like that are greatly interested in the lover’s sufferings, but to her they are a spectacle, a Roman holiday — a pageant of exciting emotions, nothing else.”
— James Thurber, The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber
Tagged: Woman, Sadistic, Unrequited, Suffering, Games, Love, Heartache, Indifference

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