Quotes about Heartache
The refusal to love is hell.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
call attention of course to the breasts. Some of these women have been within inches of getting Ed to put his head down on their chests, right there in Sally's living room. Watching all this out of the corners of her eyes while serving the liqueurs, Sally feels the Aztec rise within her. Trouble with your heart? Get it removed, she thinks. Then you'll have no more problems.
— Margaret Atwood
But what if she discovers the truth? What he suspects is the truth. That he's patchwork, a tin man, his heart stuffed with sawdust. He thinks of her waiting for him, somewhere else, an island, subtropical, not muggy, her long hair waving in the sea breeze, a red hibiscus tucked behind one ear. If he's lucky she'll wait till that happens, till he can get there to be with her.
— Margaret Atwood
Kenric grabbed her arms and pulled her closer, shaking her once. "I've told you it will make no difference! Why are you doing this?" "Because I love you," she whispered brokenly. Those were the words. Of any she could have said to him, those were the only ones that could crumble his defenses. He'd heard them too often in his mind, certain she would never think to use them as a weapon. They sliced through him as cleanly as the sharpest knife.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I've been through a lot and if God can use that story to help people through a lot of pain and heartache and share hope with people, well we'll see how it progresses.
— Jeremy Camp
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
— Billy Graham
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
— Wendell Berry
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.
— Peter Kreeft
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
— Graham Greene