Evelyn Waugh Quotes

If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are.

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

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

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.