Bette Midler Quotes

There is no grief like heartbreak.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

Love hurts more than hate.

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

Despair is part of love.

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

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

There is no love without suffering.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

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.

You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

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.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

Why is the measure of love loss?

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.