There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.

Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Sometimes, for the soul to thrive, the heart needs to be broken, son.

The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer's work begins with a broken heart.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

"Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart!"

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

What is it that affects you so deeply that whenever you encounter it, you feel the need to look away? Look there. Where is the pain in the world that you just cannot stand? Stand there. The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer's work begins with a broken heart.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

The saddest noise in the world is that of a heart breaking.