Quotes about heartache (39 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

“To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Quoted in a Edith A. Sawyer (1899), Mary Cameron
Misattributed

Forgetting

“Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

An American Prayer (1978)
Context: Now listen to this...
Ill tell you about texas radio and the big beat
Soft driven, slow and mad Like some new language
Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars...
Out here we is stoned...
Immaculate.

God , Loss

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“In the coming days, we’ll learn about the victims — young men and women who were studying and learning and working hard, their eyes set on the future, their dreams on what they could make of their lives. And America will wrap everyone who’s grieving with our prayers and our love.
But as I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America — next week, or a couple of months from now.
We don’t yet know why this individual did what he did. And it’s fair to say that anybody who does this has a sickness in their minds, regardless of what they think their motivations may be. But we are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people. We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.
Earlier this year, I answered a question in an interview by saying, “The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws — even in the face of repeated mass killings.” And later that day, there was a mass shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. That day! Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this.
We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, after Aurora, after Charleston. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun.
And what’s become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common-sense gun legislation.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2015, Remarks after the Umpqua Community College shooting (October 2015)

Love , Women , Men , People

“We are constructed from the mistakes, pain and heartaches we’ve encountered; some crumble in mental anguish, others adapt, and a few rebuild the broken pieces and are the strongest among us.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1999

Pain

“I have learned that…
you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life.
No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.
Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
There are so many ways of falling and staying in love.
No matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
Although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
Love is not for me to keep, but to pass on to the next person I see.
There are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I still have a lot to learn……”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Hurt , Personality , Love , Life

“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Color

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

Love

“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Happiness

“Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.”

Richard Paul Evans book The Christmas Box

Source: The Christmas Box

Life

“No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.”

Harlan Coben book Six Years

Source: Six Years

Feeling , Thinking , Sleep , Cry

“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Joy

“She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Duke and I

Pain , Way , Learning

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

Marilyn Hacker (1942) American writer

Love , Home

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.”

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

“That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

Heartbreaking , Hurtful , World , Change

“Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”

Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist

God , Heart

“Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

"The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)

God , Loss

“Oh my love, oh my love, I've cried for you so much,
Lonely nights without sleeping, while I longed for your touch.
Now your lips can't evade the heartache I've known,
Come with me to a world of our own.”

Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer

Song A World of Our Own.

Love , World , Sleep , Night

“No wearisome days, no sorrowful nights; no hunger or thirst; no anxiety or fears; no envies, no jealousies, no breaches of friendship, no sad separations, no distrusts or forebodings, no self-reproaches, no enmities, no bitter regrets, no tears, no heartaches; "And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away."”

Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) American bishop

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 300.

Death , Hunger , Pain , Friendship

“If only the wind could reach inside me, wipe clean my heartache, my guilt, my confusion. If only the waves could wash away this heartache, this jealousy and rage, this guilt and sadness. If only the rocks could lend me their stability, their strength, so I might choose wisely. If only the sun could burn away my past, so I would not have to live with any regrets.”

Valya Dudycz Lupescu (1974) American writer

The Silence of Trees (2010)

Sadness , Jealousy , Rage , Sun

“My heartache, is my mistake you see.”

Ed Harcourt (1977) British musician

God Protect Your Soul

“I won't stand bein' broken hearted;
I won't be pushed around.
The rules were set when we got started,
But lately I have foundWe've spent too little time and too much heartache.
I feel we're losin' ground.
And lately I've been hearin'
You won't be needin' me around.”

Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter

Don't Leave Me Lonely, written by Bryan Adams, Eric Carr, and Jim Vallance
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)

Feeling , Time , Heart

“All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

“Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles.
Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.”

Cormac McCarthy book Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

Death , People , Way , Housing

“Not counting you I've never had a heartache.
Not counting you I never have been blue.
There's no exceptions to the rule;
I've never been nobody's fool.
I've never lost at love not counting you.”

Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist

Not Counting You.
Song lyrics, Garth Brooks (1989)

Love , Fools

“Over the last 24 hrs I have gone through lots of emotions. Scared, Anger, Heartache, Compassion and many others. I truely dont understand why a person would want to take the life of another. Something has changed in this country and in this world lately that is scary to see. This world is becoming the kind of place i am afraid to raise my children in. At the end of the day we arent Democrats or Republicans, Whites or Blacks, Men or Women. We are all humans and we are all Americans and its time to start acting like it and stand together as ONE! That is the only way we will ever get this Country to be better than it has ever been, but we have a long way to go and we have to start now. My heart aches for the Victims and their families of this Senseless act. I am so sorry for the hurt and pain everyone is feeling right now and there are no words i can say.”

Jason Aldean (1977) American country music singer

As quoted in "Jason Aldean releases a statement of unity following Las Vegas shooting" http://us995.cbslocal.com/2017/10/02/jason-aldean-releases-a-statement-of-unity-following-las-vegas-shooting/ (2 October 2017), by Kimmie Caruba, CBS Local

Life , Women , Men , Pain

“It would take a miracle,
But someday maybe I'll find
That I'm in the loving arms of someone
That I'll know, know he's the someone
Who'll kiss all the heartache away,
And come that day
I won't mind losing you.”

Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer

Song Losing You.

Love , Kiss

“We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield.
We are strong, no one can tell us were wrong
Searchin our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield.”

Holly Knight American singer-songwriter and musician

"Love is a Battlefield" (co-written with Mike Chapman)

Love , Strong , Heart

“I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind.
Heartache after heartache, worried all the time.
I forgot that love existed
Then I saw the light
Everyone around me make everything alright.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

I Forgot That Love Existed
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)

Love , Light , Time

“Just around the corner there's heartache
Down the street that losers use.
If you can wade in through the teardrops,
You'll find me at the Home of the Blues.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Home of the Blues, written by Johnny Cash, Douglas L. McAlphin, and Glenn Douglas Tubb
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (1958)

Home

“Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
Then today I started loving you again.”

Merle Haggard (1937–2016) American country music song writer, singer and musician

"Today I Started Loving You Again" (January 1968), inspired by Bonnie Owens, who is credited as co-writer.

Love

“Poetry is the art that is closest to music, standing between music and narrative orality (which can be speechmaking, sermon or theater). Poetry is the voice of what can’t be spoken, the mode of truth-telling when meaning needs to rise above or skim below everyday language in shapes not discernible by the ordinary mind. It trumps the rhetoric of politicians. Poetry is prophetic by nature and not bound by time. Because of these qualities poetry carries grief, heartache, ecstasy, celebration, despair, or searing truth more directly than any other literary art form. It is ceremonial in nature. Poetry is a tool for disruption and creation and is necessary for generations of humans to know who they are and who they are becoming in the wave map of history. Without poetry, we lose our way.”

Joy Harjo (1951) American writer

On the art of poetry in “An Interview with Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate” https://poets.org/text/interview-joy-harjo-us-poet-laureate?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiJP5naHW5QIV0Rx9Ch0tGgkkEAAYASAAEgIJD_D_BwE in Poets.org (2019 Mar 31)

Despair , Time , History , Nature

“It's a bad habit, I know, but I believe that you shouldn't do anything in life until you're ready. Half of life's heartaches come from decisions that were made in a hurry. One should make haste slowly.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

On her lack of punctuality, as quoted in "Tardy but Talented" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22039844/the-courier-journal/ by James Bacon (AP), The Louisville Courier-Journal (July 17, 1960), p. 84

Decision , Life

“A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.”

book Bible

Source: Proverbs 15:13

Happiness , Heart

“I learned that comprehending someone’s heartache is, unfortunately, very often the only way to stop condemning them…I learned that most of us wouldn’t necessarily do certain things over again—like not partake in a moment of passion—even if we know how long it might stay with us/hurt us.”

Lisa Taddeo (1980) American writer and journalist

Source: On what she learned after completing Three Women in “Three Women Author Lisa Taddeo: ‘You Are Seen’” https://www.bookish.com/articles/lisa-taddeo-three-women-interview/ in Bookish (2019 Jul 9)

Hurt , Learning , Passion , Way

“How did a nation founded on so much heartache turn into a culture of normative smiles?”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Chapter 5, title, at p. 117

Smile

“Students who simply wanted to better their prospects in life and instead found themselves taken advantage of by a scam that took their money and gave them nothing in return except heartache.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks by Vice President Harris on Corinthian Student Loan Forgiveness

Money , Life