“And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.”
Suicide note
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Nicolas Chamfort 54
French writer 1741–1794Related quotes
“Where are you going?" he asked.
"To break someone's heart," I replied.”
Source: Frostbite
“Have you ever felt that your heart contained so much that it must surely break apart”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99
Context: Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.
“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade?”
“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”
As quoted in Walker, 1997.
“There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.”
Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671), P. 65.