Martha Gellhorn Quotes

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

Unfortunately, I can’t run from my heart. It hurts, deep inside my body. And I know I’ll never be the same.

We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

My heart is its own grave!

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

There is no grief like heartbreak.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.