Top 1200 Most Heartbreaking Quotes & Sayings

Greg Grunberg is so beautiful and charming and funny and heartbreaking.

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.

The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

To miss out on the top four in Europe is heartbreaking, really.

I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.

Every time you turn on the TV, you see some kind of heartbreaking story.

What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don't report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common.

I've had the chance to meet families with children who are sick, and it's heartbreaking.

'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-old sneaking into 'Stripes.'

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.

I love 'The Orphanage' because the concept is so cool and the story is told in such an interesting way. It's a movie that will scare your socks off but make you cry at the end. It's one of the most tragic movies I've ever watched and is truly heartbreaking and scary at the same time.

Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and superheroes)—but most wondrous of all is his intimate sense of character. Each story is a confession of love betrayed, told with a mournful, austere tenderness as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

Right when I was I was diagnosed my husband and I were actively trying for a family, which is heartbreaking for us both.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song.

Being told that your child will be born with HLHS is absolutely heartbreaking.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

If you lose a title, perhaps it's because your rivals are better than you are. But to be demoted from the top flight is really heartbreaking.

I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest.

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

I loved 'Welcome to the Dollhouse.' That was one of the most influential movies ever. You know that genre with the nerdy girl, and she redeems herself in the end. Like 'Napoleon Dynamite.' And in 'Welcome to the Dollhouse,' she doesn't. She sucks. It's like, that's what's real. That's what's heartbreaking.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.