heartbroken poems quotes

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott



Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956



Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya



Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol



Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James



Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985



It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin



I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun



In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton



I hate handing over money for what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 5



A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ~Baron de Montesquieu



I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. ~Terri Guillemets



The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. ~Wynonna Judd



The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan



No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw



Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman



A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939



Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game



There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~Don Delillo