"you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal."
— Rachel Hawthorne (A Year In Europe: Three Novels)

"The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe."
— Joanna Macy

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you will never completely get over the loss of a beloved person. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly-- that still hurts when the weather is cold-- but you learn to dance with the limp."
— Anne Lamott

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
— Henry Rollins

"And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass."
— John Christopher (The Sword of the Spirits)

"Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less. (from Prescience)"
— Maya Angelou (And Still I Rise)

""Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.""
— Regina Brett

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

"Tears are not the pain. They are the healing. "
— Dr. Annette Goodheart

"'Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.'"
— Jane Yolen (The Books of Great Alta: Comprising 'Sister Light, Sister Dark' and 'White Jenna')

"I'll always be damaged in a way. I had hoped that I could completely heal those cracks, but I'm starting to think the real trick is learning to live a full life in spite of them. Cracked people are everywhere, and so I can forgive myself for being overly anxious or easily frightened. But I will no longer allow myself to be swallowed by my past. I insist on having the happiest life I can muster, and I am in control of that now."
— Monica Holloway

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone
won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You
have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And
when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or hurt, or death
brushes near, you let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the
apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell
yourself that you tasted as many as you could.
"
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

"Love heals scars love left"
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

"When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. "
— Diane Ackerman

"Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Wedding)

"The heart will break, but broken live on. "
— George Gordon Byron

"See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are. But you don't have to think of them as evil - as intrinsically bad, as needing to be destroyed or driven from our midst. On the contrary, they need to be absorbed, healed, made whole. (15)"
— Steve Hagen (Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs)

"Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything."
— R.J. Ellory

"When you heal yourself, let it be in aloneness.
When you find your own, let it take time.
When you search your heart, let it be in silence."
— C.A. Cruz

"You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman."
— Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

"In every heart there is a room,
A sanctuary safe and strong,
To heal the wounds from lovers past,
Until a new one comes along"
— Billy Joel

""I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.""
— Nora Roberts (Face the Fire)

"When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?"
— Sex and the City

""As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.""
— Julia Cameron

"Time flies.
Time waits for no man.
Time heals all wounds.
All any of us wants is more time.
Time to stand up.
Time to grow up.
Time to let go.
Time.
— Meredith Grey (Grey's Anatomy)"
— Shonda Rhimes

"Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart..."
— Nick Flynn

"We are here to ruin ourselves and break hearts and love the wrong people until we die. "
— Moonstruck

"However torn by tragedy,
Or near to breaking it may be,
My heart can never harden
As long as I have eyes to see-
And windows toward the garden."
— Annabelle Merrifield

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
— Samuel Johnson

"Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace."
— Mark Matousek (Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story)

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

""If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.""
— Thoreau

"The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song."
— Gregory Colbert

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on. "
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Let me die the moment my love dies.

Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.

Let me die still loving, and so, never die. "
— Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses: A Play)

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."
— Emmet Fox

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

"Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. "
— Jeffrey McDaniel

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

"Fate loves the fearless."
— James Russell Lowell

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."
— Marcus Aurelius

"When the heart is at ease , the body is healthy."
— Chinese Proverbs

"Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place."
— Ursula K. LeGuin

"And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore."
— Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year)