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Broken Heart Quotes - Page 10

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

"The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.123, Penguin

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.65