W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you?

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

I can definitely relate to Jacob's feelings in Breaking Dawn. When he gets the invitation to the wedding, he doesn't handle it very well. And I don't think I would either. If I were in love with a girl and she told me she was marrying somebody else, that would crush me. And that's what it does. It destroys Jacob.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

I've had my heart broken one too many times.

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.