Heartbroken Sayings People Who Have Lost Their Love Express Their Greif

If you have recently lost a great love, you may take a small measure of comfort in the fact that others have experienced the same thing. Some of these people have summed up the situation better than I ever will. That’s why I present this collection of heartbroken sayings to you:

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
-- T.E. Kalem

A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.
-- Author Unknown

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
-- Author Unknown

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-- Norman Cousins

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
-- Eileen Mayhew

Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
-- Author Unknown

Some heartbroken sayings have to do with the love that was lost:

My love-lies-bleeding.
-- Thomas Campbell

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.
-- Patsy Cline

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.
-- Samuel Johnson

The weirdest thing happened the other morning...I woke up with tears in my eyes...and one rolling down my cheek...and I knew I must have been dreaming of you again.
-- Author Unknown

Some heartbroken sayings look to the future that is possible after heartbreak:

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.
-- Author Unknown

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
-- Virginia Woolf

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow


There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
-- Author Unknown

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
-- Harry Crews

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
-- Oprah Winfrey

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.
-- Author Unknown


Heartbroken sayings help us to understand that others have experienced the pain we are currently going through. Just as they survived, we will too.