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.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

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.

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

When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

"My heart is broken," she goes. "It's turned to a piece of stone. I'm no good. That's what's as bad as anything, that I'm no good anymore."

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

As an egg, when broken, never
Can be mended, but must ever
Be the same crushed egg for ever—
So shall this dark heart of mine!

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

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.