quotes about heartbreak and pain

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. ~Steve Bull



Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. ~H.L. Mencken



There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens



There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't. ~Author Unknown



Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ~Orson Scott Card



Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, 1889



Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse. ~Miguel de Cervantes



I'm a material girl - want to see my fabric collection? ~Author Unknown



He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. ~Abraham Lincoln



I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate. ~Author Unknown



You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney



A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance



It is never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot



The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. ~Cesar Pelli



Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~W.H. Auden



In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ~Christopher Morley



Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini