Here are some quotes related to heartbreak along with the authors’ names:

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” — Mrs. Maylie, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

“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

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.” — L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.” — William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.” — Gaston Leroux, Phantom of the Opera

“Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.” — Elie Wiesel, Night

“At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.” — Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle¹

“Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal.” — Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“I expected to feel only empty and heartbroken after Paul died. It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone.” — Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I’m erasing myself from the narrative. Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.” — Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“I stand in front of the mirror and study my face.…It is the face of a sad, lonely girl something bad has happened to. I wonder if my face will ever look the same again, or if I’ll always see it in my reflection.” — Finch, All the Bright Places

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” — James Baldwin

“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.” — Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind

Here are some quotes related to loss along with the authors’ names:

“When you lose someone, you don’t lose them all at once, and their dying doesn’t stop with their death. You lose them a thousand times in a thousand ways. You say a thousand goodbyes. You hold a thousand funerals.” — Sara Seager

“Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it’s been too long since you missed them last.” — Kristin O’Donnell Tubb

“You’re dead, and I’m the worst kind of alive.” — Adam Silvera

“Grief never goes away. And that’s no bad thing – it’s only the other side of love, after all.” — Carys Bray

“We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.” — Fredrik Backman

“The ghosts in the house are ours, and I just want to be with them.” — Ava Dellaira

“When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ‘10 second heartbreak’. That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…” — Nina Guilbeau

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.” — Richard Matheson

“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.” — Caitlin Kittredge

“Life has to end. Love doesn’t.” — Mitch Albom

“If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is grief.” — Victoria Chang

“I used to toy with the notion that when we die we find out what our lives have amounted to, finally. I’d never imagined that we could find that out when somebody else dies.” — Anne Tyler

“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.” — David Gerrold

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” — George Eliot

“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” — Woody Allen

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.” — Cheryl Strayed

“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.” — Jojo Moyes

“I am stronger than I am broken.” — Roxane Gay

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” — Joan Didion

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.” — Milan Kundera

“What I really fear is time. That’s the devil whipping us on when we’d rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp, and it is suddenly past, at past that won’t hold still…” — Tom Rachman

“If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There’s an initial uprush of relief at first, then a profound dislocation.” — Mary Karr

“In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.” — Paulo Coelho