“Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”

“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

“An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

“Realism can break a writer's heart.”

Salman Rushdie Shame

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“Your heart can break at any age.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

“Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker