Michael Chabon Quotes

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

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

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

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

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

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

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

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

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.

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

Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

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.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

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

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.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

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.

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.

If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.