“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

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

Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder

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

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

“There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

“But only love can break your heart
Try to be sure right from the start
Yes only love can break your heart
What if your world should fall apart?”

Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter

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

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

“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis