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Heartbreak Quotes - Page 2

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

"A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc