Terry McMillan Quotes

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

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.

Despair is part of love.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.