Alexa Chung Quotes

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

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

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

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

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more walking around with my head down, I'm so over being blue crying over you.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

The heart was made to be broken.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

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

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

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