#heartache

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

#love #change

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#heartache #memories #death

A dream you once were, A dream of all my realities, A dream I can no long strive for In the wake of my manly betayals ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#dreams #heartache #lost-love #reality #dreams

There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams. ↗

— Jennifer St. Giles

#pain #stolen-dreams #dreams

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#heartache #reality #sleeping #dreams

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

#heartache #love #friendship

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

#heartache #heathcliff #love #sadness #death

He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where no one could see his pain and his shame. Unconsciously, he reached up and fisted the little black pearl in his fingers, searching for words, praying to the Almighty for the words that would let him have her. But they would not come. They were not needed, when the truth was in his eyes. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#romance #romance-love-heartache #love

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

#future #heartache #past #present #dreams

There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don’t let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#heartache #lessons #life-lessons #stress #experience