CURATED COLLECTION

Moving On From Heartbreak

The heart does eventually repair itself — but nobody tells you how strange the process feels.

50 quotes found

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My heart remains true, even as fate parts us and time fades.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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El hogar es donde el corazón se quiebra y se reconstruye una y otra vez.

—Rosario FerréNovelist, Writer & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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I have crossed an ocean. I have lost my tongue.

—Grace NicholsPoet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

—Langston HughesPoet & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Beloved, your absence is a desert, my heart a thirsty wanderer within.

—Mihri HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learned, seized him for the fair form that was taken from me.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Philosopher

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

—Sylvia PlathPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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America is a dream and a nightmare. A dazzling promise and a broken heart.

—Jessica HagedornNovelist, Poet & Artist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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She left my heart with longing, no home. It is enslaved, not ransomed for the world.

—Ka'b ibn ZuhayrPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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My foolish heart, what has befallen you? What, after all, is the remedy for this pain?

—Mirza GhalibPoet

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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A heart full of sadness finds comfort in no worldly delight.

—Mustafa Safi al-Din al-Tughra'iPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I wasn’t in love with her anymore, but I was still in love with the idea of her.

—F. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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The heart is left without a refuge, a prisoner of love's desire.

—Ka'b ibn ZuhayrPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

—Sylvia PlathPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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There is no peace for me, and I am not at war; I fear and hope; I burn and am a mass of ice.

—Francesco PetrarchScholar & Poet

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo NerudaPoet & Diplomat

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.

—Frida KahloPainter

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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I have lived my life in the gap between your heartbeat and mine.

—Amrita PritamPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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Love is a hunger that cannot be satisfied by the one you love.

—María Luisa BombalNovelist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.

—Kate ChopinAuthor

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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