A paper-made symbolisation of a broken heart
Broken heart (also known as a heartbreak or heartache) is a metaphor for the intense emotional—and sometimes physical—stress or pain one feels at experiencing great and deep longing.
Quotes
- Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
- Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, What's Love Got to Do with It, from the album Private Dancer (1984).
- Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. [...] Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the Sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
- Chief Joseph, speech in surrendering to General Nelson Appleton Miles after long evading a pursuit nearly to the border of Canada (5 October 1877).
- Doch ein gekränktes Herz erholt sich schwer.
- A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, IV. 4. 24.
- Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.- Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part VI. Same idea in Lucretius, II. 579.
- I'll break your heart
to keep you far from where
all danger starts- Warpaint, Elephants, Exquisite Corpse (2008)
See also
External links
Encyclopedic article on Broken heart on Wikipedia
Media related to Broken hearts on Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of broken heart on Wiktionary
This article is issued from Wikiquote. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.