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“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.”

Ifs Writing Heart Littles Real Hurt Dark Loss Rooms Son Broken My Heart Happenings Died My Son I Was Hurt

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”

Heart God Father Loss Tears Broken Doctors Wipe Doctor Who

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Hard Enough Shows Body Loss Broken Degrees Stronger Filled Bones Medical Holes Cracks Replaced Human Body Healed Healed You

Book:Come Home: A Novel

Source: Come Home: A Novel

“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.”

Ifs Would Be Humanity Games Loss Interesting Students Football College Broken Arms Humorous Increase Legs Necks Faculty College Football Trustees

Author:H. L. Mencken

“New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.”

Heart Loss Perfect New York Broken Towns Disappointment

Book:You Can Get There From here

Source: You Can Get There From here

“Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.”

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

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Author:Duke of Wellington

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.”

Ifs Knows World Needs May Loss Effort Broken Picks Instruments Inspired Convinced Extras Spite Be Inspired Begin Again Your Loss

Author:Steve Goodier

“God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.”

World Today Pain Loss Broken Acknowledge Grieving Inviting Pain And Loss

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”

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Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

Mother Turns Loss Broken Mom Daughter Bones Settling Single Mom Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Arthritis Mother Daughter Relationship Mother And Daughter Relationship

Author:Kristin Hannah