“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”

“When you’re dreaming with a broken heart,
The waking up is the hardest part.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

“If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”

Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

“A dream, a dream, — it is all a dream,
A strange, sad dream, good sooth;
For old as I am, and old as I seem,
My heart is full of youth.”

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet

“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

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

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet