quotes about heartbreak

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!" ~David Grayson


As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary


I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner


No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ~H.L. Mencken


A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. ~Mark Twain


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall


Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922


The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense. ~Author Unknown


The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~Andre Malraux


Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key. ~Author Unknown


The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs


People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's in water. But certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. ~Elayne Boosler


Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ~Salvador Dali


Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern


Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913


American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ~Gordie Howe, 1975


I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin


There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. ~J.J. Greene


The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt