“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…”

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

Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder

“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

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

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

“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

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

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

“Realism can break a writer's heart.”

Salman Rushdie Shame

“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.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

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

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."… So, what breaks your heart?”

Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer