Etel Adnan Quotes

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

Only love can break your heart.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

When I hear heartbreak songs, I always feel like, 'O.K. that's exactly how I feel... I'm not the only person who fell in love like a stupid person.'