Margaret Mitchell Quotes

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?

Hope hurt more than the cold.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

My heart is its own grave!

I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.