“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”— Greg Behrendt, 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
“People fail to understand that tragedy and silence have the exact same address.”— Salmah Hamid, thoughtcatalog.com
“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works.”— Danielle Steel, amazon.com
“I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”— Vicki Harrison, books.google.com
“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.”— China Miéville, amazon.com
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”— José N. Harris, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, books.google.com
“The truth about anger is that it’s nothing more than the refusal to heal, because you’re scared to. Because you’re afraid of who you’ll be once your wounds close up and you have to go on living in your new, unfamiliar skin.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com