Broken heart
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Broken heart (also known as a heartbreak or heartache) is a metaphor for the intense emotional—and sometimes physical—stress or pain one feels at experiencing great and deep longing.
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Quotes
[edit]- Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
- Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, What's Love Got to Do with It, from the album Private Dancer (1984).
- Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. [...] Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the Sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
- Chief Joseph, speech in surrendering to General Nelson Appleton Miles after long evading a pursuit nearly to the border of Canada (5 October 1877).
- Doch ein gekränktes Herz erholt sich schwer.
- A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, IV. 4. 24.
- I’ve climbed up here holding the hilt of time’s sword after driving it into my tender heart.
- Suman Pokhrel, While Parting
- Whether anybody comes to convince me or not, a part of my life does always ache arresting my chest.
- Suman Pokhrel, While Parting
- My heart didn't want to believe it, but the truth was right in front of me.
- Sanu Sharma, Inaam
- Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.- Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part VI. Same idea in Lucretius, II. 579.
- I'll break your heart
to keep you far from where
all danger starts- Warpaint, Elephants, Exquisite Corpse (2008)
Proverb
[edit]See also
[edit]External links
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Encyclopedic article on Broken heart on Wikipedia
Media related to Broken hearts on Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of broken heart on Wiktionary
