“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”

“And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“Why break the heart that never beat from love?”

Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan

“Stop beating your head, you might hurt yourself.”

Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) American software developer

“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist

“Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

“You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

“You can do anything when it's not real.
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

“Punch any of mine, and I’ll break your arm off and beat you to death with it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo