“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“903. Better have an old Man to humour, than a young Rake to break your Heart.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
“When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”
Source: How I Live Now
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Variant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.