Steven Moffat Quotes

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.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

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.

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

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

The light is heart-breaking.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.

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

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it. "That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that." Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. I close my eyes. "If you think that's what it's about..." I swallow another sob. "...you're the stupid one.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

Sorrow eats your heart and courage.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

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.

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