Utter Heartbreak

30 Utterly Heartbreaking Quotes When You Don't Think Anyone Understands

I had one of the most precious blessings available to a human being- real love. 
Kirsten Corley
August 2, 2016
“Broken hearts — if used wisely and compassionately — are absolutely necessary for spreading the fire of love.See, when your heart breaks open, all the love that has been hidden and buried within it for years has the opportunity to now spill forth — and to cover everyone around you with love...and also to spread itself across the world, in wave after wave of love and grace and humanity.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, DISCOVERING FIRE FOR THE SECOND TIME...
Tagged: Broken Hearts, Sadness, Heartbreak, Love, Hearts, Compassion
“Perhaps the fact 
that I chased a boy 
who ripped me to shreds 
says a lot more 
about me 
than it did about him.”
— Michelle K., Lessons Learned
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Toxic Love, Self-Sabatoge, Self-Esteem
“"If I never love anyone again the way I have loved you" he said, "that will be a relief."”
— Mia Hollow, Twitter
Tagged: Love, Relief, Falling In Love, Falling Out Of Love
“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Distance, Heartbreak
“This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
Tagged: Losing Yourself
“Missing someone is not about how long it has been since you have seen them or the amount of time since you have talked…it is about that very moment when you are doing something and wishing they were there with you.”
— Anonymous
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“I miss you like the sun misses the flowers, like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct it’s light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world which your absence has banished me to.”
— William Thatcher,
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, Scout’s honor, pinky promise. I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion I’m having, and of course, it is failing to a fault. I’m still sad, I’m still mad, I’m still heartbroken, I miss you.”
— Elizabeth Brooks
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation, said to exes
“How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.”
— Karen Harrington, Sure Signs of Crazy
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”
— Greg Behrendt, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
Tagged: Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Pain, Sadness, Breaking Up, Breakups
“You do not get to destroy someone and decide how ruined they are allowed to feel.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Pride, Heartbreak
“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.”
— Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Death
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Tagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Breakups
“I had one of the most precious blessings available to human beings — real love. I went for it and found it.”
— Eve Pell, The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
Tagged: real love
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Love, Missing You, Letting Go, Missing Someone, Pain, Heartbreak
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Grief, Sad, expression, Crying, Life, Heartbreak
“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you, they're ready to leave.”
— James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Leaving
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged: shakespeare, Heartbreak, emotions
“When your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure you're still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That's life. The confusion and fear? That's there to remind you, that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for.”
— Nathan Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: One Tree Hill, Love, Heartbreak, Pain, Moving On
“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Nicholas Sparks, Best Of Sparks, Longing For Love
“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, SD Quotes, Relationship Advice, Loss, Heartbreak
“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Heartbreak, Love, Breakups
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Breakups, Loss And Love
“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”
— Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Love And Loss, Heartbreak, Love, Losing Love
“I had the coldest realization that time was running out.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesday's With Morrie
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Death Quotes, Life And Love, Life And Death
“He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her- that he was leaving her behind.”
— F Scott Fitgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Love And Loss, Breakups, It's Over
“The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.”
— R.M Drake, Beautiful And Damned
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Pain, Loss, Love And Loss
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Lost Love, Forgotten Love
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have no power to feel for him.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Love And Loss, Heartbroken