Junot Diaz Quotes

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

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

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

Love hurts more than hate.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

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

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

My heart is its own grave!

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

There is no love without suffering.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.