When Your Heart Doesn't Seem To Be Healing Read This

“But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy.”

— Warsan Shire, thoughtcatalog.com

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”

— Mandy Hale, amazon.com

“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.”

— Nina Guilbeau, amazon.com

“Unfortunately, years of schooling can’t teach you about recovering from heartbreak the way experience can.”

— Melissa Hill, nytimes.com

“I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”

— James Dashner, amazon.com

“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”

— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com

“Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.”

— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”

— Louis CK, huffingtonpost.com

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“That’s what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark.”

— Rebecca Tsaros Dickson, thoughtcatalog.com

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Som…”

— Warsan Sire, goodreads.com

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

— Unknown, goodtherapy.org

“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s…”

— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Amb…”

— Gilda Radner, amazon.com

“If someone doesn’t care about losing you: Move on. There are thousands of people that will die and kill to not lose you.”

— Unknown, quotesberry.com

“It's fucked up that you had to learn about love from those who never loved you.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“she gave all that she had she tried when you didn't and she'll walk away knowing that in the end you were not worthy of her love.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine, amazon.com

“A thousand words couldn’t bring you back… I know this because I tried, neither could a thousand tears… I know this because I cried, you left behind a broken heart and happy memories too…but I never wanted memories…I only wanted you.”

— Anonymous, coolnsmart.com

“The silence isn’t so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.”

— Owl City, play.spotify.com

“I knew that looking back on the tears would make me laugh but I never knew that looking back on the laughs would bring tears.”

— Cat Stevens, brainyquote.com

“They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.”

— Anonymous, truthfollower.com

“I’m sick of checking my phone and not seeing your name…”

— Anonymous, thefreshquotes.com

“Everyday, I fight the urge to text you or call you, telling myself that if you wanted to talk to me, you would.”

— Anonymous, thequotepedia.com

“Why is it that when you miss someone so much that your heart is ready to disintegrate, you hear the saddest song on the radio?”

— Will McRobb, Chris Viscardi, Older Pete Wrigley