Source: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories
“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”
Source: The Unquiet
“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.”
De Profundis (1897)
“My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Variant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
"When I Think Of My People Broken Down", as translated in "The Poetry of Sri Lanka", in Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1976), published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, p. 11
Context: Unbearable becomes the pain in my heart —
When I think of my people, broken down,
broken by disease in mind and limb. On the edge of life they always linger;
For countless are the diseases
Of Ignorance and Hunger. And on treacherous paths to Slavery
like children blind, they would walk behind
strangers from over the sea. O, divine Land, blessed by the gods!
O, ancient Mother of Culture and Art!
Thy children today are spineless hordes.
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
