"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away."
— Robert Goolrick (The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life)

"I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"every time you walk away you take another piece of me...till there's nothing at all"
— Element a440