James Joyce Quotes

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.

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

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

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

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

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

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

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

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

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.