Paulo Coelho Quotes

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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.

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

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.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

We have our moments of emotional vulnerabilities as any other human being, and my greatest fear gnawing away at me is losing my loved ones.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.

Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt

Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.