“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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American writer 1935–2019Related quotes
“903. Better have an old Man to humour, than a young Rake to break your Heart.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”
Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now
Source: How I Live Now
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Variant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.