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“If my heart is breaking—let it break! That will not make the world bankrupt—nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in this life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore, else none would have ever wept.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the...” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!” Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
“My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter; but 'tis no matter; better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.” William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
“you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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