“As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture.”

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”

John Connolly (1968) author

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

“He feels like a handle broken off a jug,
but the jug doesn't know it's broken and keeps going to the well.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

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

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“Dante's corpus as a whole is in certain respects like a testament to the closing medieval age; it shows what the Western world would have been had it not broken from its tradition.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

“The heart was made to be broken.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet