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This Is How Heartbreak Changes People

Almost nobody gets out of love alive.
Rania Naim
October 13, 2016
“I am tired of being taken for granted. If only I could get back a fraction of what I give. But my efforts go unrecognized, and my soul keeps wishing to be noticed, to be valued; to be understood.”
— Lang Leav, Misunderstood
Tagged: Poetry, Poems, Lang Leav, Misunderstood, Invisible, Taken For Granted, Relationships
“I wonder if I’ll keep trying to fix all the people who are already unfixable. I wonder if I’ll keep cutting myself trying to put their shattered pieces together. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that they won’t stop me from bleeding when they are the ones who keep slashing my veins.”
— Rania Naim, I Wonder If I’ll Ever Stop Loving The Wrong People
Tagged: Rania Naim, Thought Catalog, Love, Loving The Wrong People, Fixing People, Heartbreak
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman
Tagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Settling
“You just have to say to yourself, 'I'm not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be happy!”
— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man
Tagged: Man, Woman, Relationships
“I have pretended to go mad in order to tell you the things I need to. I call it art. Because art is the word we give to our feelings made public. And art doesn't worry anyone.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Art, Madness
“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
“the hard part is pretending
not to give a fuck when you
really do. the worst part is
trying to close your heart
when its doors have been blown
to pieces.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Heartbreak, Heartbroken, R.M Drake, Give A Fuck
“Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“When I see you, I can't help but be reminded of all the mountains we didn't move, of all the things I didn't do. The odds are against us, there is nothing left, but my desire, to immortalize you in my words.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Timing
“There is a thin line between love and hate. And I swift from hating you, to loving you, to hating you all over again.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Hate
“Because of you, I never stray too far from the sidewalk. Because of you, I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt. Because of you, I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me. Because of you, I am afraid.”
— Kelly Clarkson, Because Of You
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Song Lyrics
“Here you are covered in cracks from falling and not being caught. Cracks from loving someone incapable of reciprocating everything you gave them.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Heartbreak
“Your heart is stubborn. Sadly, it clings to the things that break it in hopes that those things will save it. ”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Heartbreak, Broken Heart
“No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming. hearing lies, saying sorry and hurting.”
— Unknown, Tired Of Getting Hurt Quotes
Tagged: Heartbreak, Relationships, Love
“Pain makes people change.”
— Unknown, Tired Of Getting Hurt
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships
“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”
— Sarah J Mass, The Assassin's Blade
Tagged: Dating, Heartbreak, Sad
“Almost nobody gets out of love alive.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship
“I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
— John Green, John Green Box Set
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationships
“I slept 
incredibly well
before I met you.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Missing People, Sleepless, Nostalgia, Heartbreak
“Feelings never do make sense. They get you all confused. Then they drive you around for hours before they drop you right back where you started.”
— Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
Tagged: emotions, Feelings, Love, Relationships, Heartbreak
“Sometimes people play hard to get to make sure that the other person's feelings are real.”
— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill
Tagged: One Tree Hill, Love, Playing Hard To Get, Heartbreak
“I'd rather feel nothing. It's better. It's easier.”
— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill
Tagged: One Tree Hill, Love, Feelings, Heartbreak
“Heartbreak knocks the wind out of you, and the feelings of loss and longing can make getting out of bed a monumental task. Learning to trust and lean in to love again can feel impossible.”
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, Getting Back Up, Trust
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
— Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Tagged: Love, Pain, Fear