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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  I miss you like hell. --Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. --Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts. --Jewish Saying

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. --Author Unknown

What is the opposite of two?  A lonely me, a lonely you. --Richard Wilbur

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. --Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. --Jean de La Fontaine

I don't know why they call it heartbreak.  It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. --Missy Altijd

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. --Rosa Parks

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
--Rupert Brooke

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. --Jean Giraudoux

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. --Lamartine

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

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. --Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

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

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
--Edmund Spenser

With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
--Thomas Moore

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

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
--Thomas Otway

Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. --Irish Proverb

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

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne

Don't worry about losing.  If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry.  Nothing good gets away. --John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958

My love-lies-bleeding. --Thomas Campbell

Walking, working, barely breathing
My thoughts, far away
Heart aching, mind racing
Sleep does not come easily, nor last long....
--Peter Winstanley

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. --Author Unknown

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
--Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. --From the television show The Wonder Years

It's not love's going hurts my days
But that it went in little ways.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay

...Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes
Lost every day, no map to follow
Entire days, weeks, a blur
Flickers of light, in the darkness,
Only to be enveloped in shadows once more...
--Peter Winstanley

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. --From the television show The Wonder Years

My joy was skipping
Around our love
It tripped.
--Terri Guillemets

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. --Charlie Brown

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. --J.K. Rowling

I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine;
For if from yours you will not part,
Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
--John Suckling

Yes, I will go.  I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. --Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!
--George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Maid of Athens"

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. --James Matthew Barrie

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. --Toto