66 Heartache Quotes For Healing

Heartache is a universal experience that can leave us feeling isolated and overwhelmed. In times of emotional turmoil, words have the power to comfort, inspire, and guide us toward healing. Our curated collection of 66 heartache quotes is designed to offer solace and perspective, helping you navigate the complexities of heartbreak. Whether you're seeking to understand your emotions, find encouragement, or simply feel less alone, these quotes provide a beacon of hope, gently reminding you that healing is possible and brighter days are ahead.

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

2. “Heartache often drives us to consume things we wouldn't otherwise, such as an entire pint of Caramel Pecan Perfection high-fat ice cream, covered in ganache, the crack cocaine of frozed dairy. Twelve hundred calories per pint, six hundred and eighty of which are fat calories, but is only dulls the pain for the moment, there's that carb fog while you're standing at the sink shoving it in your face, and then it's over and you feel...used. Like a cheap pickup the Dove people seduced and abandoned in your kitchen, leaving you with sticky hands and an empty cup and a still-broken heart, except now you're mad at Dove, too.” - Jennifer Crusie

3. “Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.” - Patricia McKillip

4. “I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. ” - Libba Bray

5. “Is it just me, or is that guy the coolest boyfriend ever invented?" "It’s not just you." And there was that same dull pain-the one I get sometimes when I see the two of them together and realize I’ll never have that. I gave Amanda a smile. "He’s great. I’m really happy for you." And that was a hundred percent true. But it didn’t make it hurt any less.” - Robin Brande

6. “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” - Lauren Conrad

7. “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.” - Juliet Marillier

8. “Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears.But...now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain.And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.” - J. California Cooper

9. “I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-- despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have 'that thing' even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's final destination-- the complete and merciless devaluation of self." - pg 20-21” - Elizabeth Gilbert

10. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

11. “She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.” - Marilynne Robinson

12. “I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.” - Marla Miniano

13. “recant, v.I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. I want to take back the book of artsy photos I gave you, because you didn’t get it and said it was hipster trash. I want to take back what I said about you being an emotional zombie. I want to take back the time I called you “honey” in front of your sister and you looked like I had just shown her pictures of us having sex. I want to take back the wineglass I broke when I was mad, because it was a nice wineglass and the argument would have ended anyway. I want to take back the time we had sex in a rent-a-car, not because I feel bad about the people who got in the car after us, but because it was massively uncomfortable. I want to take back the trust I had while you were away in Austin. I want to take back the time I said you were a genius, because I was being sarcastic and I should have just said you’d hurt my feelings. I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.” - David Levithan

14. “Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you.” - C. Elizabeth

15. “A heartfire, Clementine my darlin', is when you want someone, when you need her so damn bad, not only in your bed but in your life, that you're willin' to burn--".” - Penelope Williamson

16. “You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?” - Jess Rothenberg

17. “Though sorrow may impede my heart,It is of great love to have known you.” - C. Elizabeth

18. “Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.” - Santosh Kalwar

19. “I would have done anything for him. But these days, I don't want to do anything. I don't want to get drunk or go to a wild party or make out with random boys-not that I've ever wanted to. I don't want to watch chick flicks or eat ice cream or get a haircut or buy out half of the mall. I don't want cold, cruel revenge. I don't want to see him suffer when karma catches up with him and kick his ass. I don't even want to talk to him right now, simply because it would be awkward and pathetic and I wouldn't know what to say to him. Yes, there is self-control, preventing me from being stupid and acting like a desperate doofus in the manner most heartbroken people do. But there is also a weary numbness threatening to consume every inch of me: Isn't there a way for me to skip straight to the part where I'm fine again?” - Marla Miniano

20. “Ah, hell.His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight.His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the queen, looking like a combination of Cary Grant and some model in a goddamn cologne ad.Not that Qhuinn was bitter.Because the guy was sharing Blay's bed.Nah.Nope. Not at all.The Cocksucker-With a wince, he thought maybe he should switch that insult to something a little farther away from what the two of them ...God, he couldn't even go there. Not if he wanted to breathe.” - J.R. Ward

21. “When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.” - Kim Sowol

22. “Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.” - Emily Brontë

23. “It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.” - Anne Frank

24. “Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will be gone.” - Ronan O'Brien

25. “By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.” - V.S. Carnes

26. “Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it.” - Chris Fabry

27. “Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.” - Joshua Wisenbaker

28. “When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…” - Nina Guilbeau

29. “A dream you once were,A dream of all my realities,A dream I can no long strive forIn the wake of my manly betayals” - C. Elizabeth

30. “He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to beI rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, body wash, and my favourite smell - Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul” - E.L. James

31. “Sometimes I guess it just feels better to know that you have someone to help you when you can’t even help yourself. ~ Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)” - Rebecca Gober

32. “Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.” - Charles Dickens

33. “...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear.” - Kellie Elmore

34. “I'm not some possession." I pushed at his chest once more. "No, you're not." His mouth returned to mine. "You are my wife." I continued to struggle with the mass of him. He pulled his head back. "You're the only woman I've loved since I lost my mother and sister." His eyes intent on mine. Torn by my anger and his admission, I stopped protesting. His mouth moved against my neck and his body pressed into mine. "I have loved you for so long.” - Saewod Tice

35. “Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.” - Stephen King

36. “We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t.” - Moira Young

37. “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” - Kate Chisman

38. “Maybe heartache was more normal than the absence of it.” - Jennifer Handford

39. “Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.” - Meg Howrey

40. “Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.” - Katherine Allred

41. “I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed” - Francesca Marciano

42. “We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.” - Jocelyn Soriano

43. “We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.” - Jocelyn Soriano

44. “To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.” - Jocelyn Soriano

45. “He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go.” - Veronica Rossi

46. “You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?” - Brian MacLearn

47. “There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.” - Brian MacLearn

48. “He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.” - Phillip W. Simpson

49. “The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.” - Orhan Pamuk

50. “There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.” - Jennifer St. Giles

51. “He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.” - Lauren Oliver

52. “It all seemed so impossible, so difficult after searching for her, not knowing for so long. How many times had his daughter suffered some human sickness, death or heartache over the course of her many lifetimes? How many times had she loved, cried and been without her father when she most needed him most?” - Elaine White

53. “We’re soldiers, Emily. If we’re not elders or council members then that’s all we are. We’re here to serve those above us. We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity with no feelings, no emotions and no heart. We don’t get to feel love, passion or desire. We do as we’re told, for the good of the clan and because we’re told to do it. And we protect people. So whatever grand delusions you have about being some kind of wonderful child and the master’s favorite are just misguided attempts to feel human again. Get over it.” - Elaine White

54. “She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.” - Freya North

55. “You reached into my chest with your words. When you spoke, my heart danced. Love muddled thoughts based in reason. Interest withered like a flower in dry heat then your words wrapped themselves around my heart and yanked it from my body. Now I stand bewildered by the sight of my heart beating on the cold concrete floor.” - Sonya Watson

56. “The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.” - Jodi Picoult

57. “Marriage is not easy, I thought to myself. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s two different people, from two different backgrounds, trying to build a life together for better or worse. It’s something you have to work at every single day. There are going to be hard times and those are the times you are supposed to fight like hell.” - Courtney Giardina

58. “You may have to break this heart before you can use it. You may have to take it apart and start all over with me. I know it hurts to change, but I don't want to stay the same. Take me. Break me. Do whatever it takes to make me what you need me to be” - Willow Aster

59. “There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

60. “As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.--"Tango” - Kurt Vonnegut

61. “Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.” - Abbi Glines

62. “I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.” - Cassandra Clare

63. “Sometimes you have to know what you're willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.” - Erik Tomblin

64. “You are everything I have in this world Gracie” - Marisa Oldham

65. “I was wounded by a blow of love.” - Tom Spanbauer

66. “She's your once in a lifetime girl.” - Dennis McKay