Broken Heart Quotes,
Expressions of Pain

The following broken heart quotes express the pain of heartbreak in a beautiful way.

Breaking up with someone leaves many people broken-hearted.

And they often feel great sadness.

If you've recently split up with someone you’ll probably relate to some, if not all, of these quotations...


'It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part' - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

'No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear' - C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

'Love is a torment of the mind, a tempest everlasting' - Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

'The day breaks not, it is my heart' - John Donne (1572-1631)

'Those that have most power to hurt us are those we love' - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher from the Maid's Tragedy (1610-11)

'Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer' - Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

'The hottest love has the coldest end' – Socrates (469-399 B.C.)

'Broken hearts die slowly' - Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

'Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart. My silent heart, lie still and break.' - Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

'The flowers of our two hearts were bleeding to death. And perhaps we wept without either seeing the tears.' - Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)

'Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled.' - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

'Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.' - Helen Rowland (1875-1950)

'Never morning wore to evening, but some heart did break.' - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)



If you’ve been touched by these broken heart quotes, you’ll also find our selection of sad love quotes and sad love poems emotional and moving.

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