Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken.'
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
She was gone, definitely, finally gone. Until now he had half unconsciously cherished the hope deep in his heart that some day she would need him and send for him.
There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
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.
You loved me – then what right had you to leave me? What right – answer me – for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? 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.
There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.
People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not.
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.
I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.