Paul Simon Quotes

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

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

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart.

I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

If hearts could shatter, mine just did.

The heart was made to be broken.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

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

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.