quotes about broken hearts

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ~Richard Whately


Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon


To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. ~Henry David Thoreau


A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ~Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Atheism, 1625


You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988


I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson


We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown


Meseems I feel his presence. Is he dead?


Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette


Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead


The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ~Blaise Pascal, translated from French, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656


Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown


Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks


Jealousy... is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes


Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream. ~Author Unknown


Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps


Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~Daniel Berrigan