Broken heart
A metaphor for intense emotional/physical stress or pain one feels at experiencing great and deep longing.
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.
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Quotes
edit- 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.
- I’ve climbed up here holding the hilt of time’s sword after driving it into my tender heart.
- Suman Pokhrel, While Parting
- Whether anybody comes to convince me or not, a part of my life does always ache arresting my chest.
- Suman Pokhrel, While Parting
- My heart didn't want to believe it, but the truth was right in front of me.
- Sanu Sharma, Inaam
- 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)
Proverb
editSee also
editExternal links
editEncyclopedic article on Broken heart on Wikipedia
Media related to Broken hearts on Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of broken heart on Wiktionary