10 Quotes You Need to Read About Heartbreak
Broken hearts are beautifully universal.
There are different schools of thought about heartbreak, and I doubt that many of them are wrong. I can read completely conflicting ideas about healing from a broken heart yet find great comfort in each one simply because my stance frequently changes.
Some of it is the way time changes how we see things. And some of it is because all heartbreak isn’t equal. Often, we can’t even explain why certain losses hit us harder than others.
They just do, leaving us with the feeling that the timeline of healing is completely beyond our control.
1. There’s good reason why a heartbreak hurts so bad.
“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
How should we feel about a seemingly everlasting heartbreak? You know the kind‐. years, perhaps decades later, it still stings.
Even when significant healing has happened, there are aches that simply never die. In such cases, I think about this quote from one of my…
