“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
Source: Peony in Love
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Lisa See 22
American writer and novelist 1955Related quotes
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
Variant: You will lose what you value most...
It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life.
What you value most.
It had been his soul.
Source: Spirit Bound
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
“My tears are buried in my heart,
Like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”
Song - I pray thee let me weep to-night
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
In a conversation with Pierre Loeb, circa 1946; as quoted on the website of the Jorn Museum 'Articles' by Jorn http://www.museumjorn.dk/en/article_presentation.asp?AjrDcmntId=255,
1940 - 1948, Various sources
“Objects bring back their memories. You tear my heart!”
A commentary on an episode in Chapter 8 of the Dream of the Red Chamber, trans. David Hawkes in The Story of the Stone, Vol. I (Penguin, 1973), p. 34, quoted by Gideon Shelach-Lavi in "Memory, Amnesia and the Formation of Identity Symbols in China", published in Memory and Agency in Ancient China (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
