emo quotes about broken hearts

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand Russell


Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum


My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes. ~Carrie Latet


The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. ~James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960


If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge. ~Jo Burt (Thanks, Jacquie)


Probably the most honest "self-made man" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way." ~James Thom


Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown


Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990


Handwriting is autobiography. ~Carrie Latet


Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket. ~Author Unknown


Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before... ~Philippians 3:13


Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler


On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. ~Thomas Carlyle, "Count Cagliostro," 1833


Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love


The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children. ~Paul R. Ehrlich


Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. ~Source Unknown


They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ~George Savile, Complete Works, 1912


His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker