Top 232 Heartbreaking Quotes & Sayings

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

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

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

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

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

--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.

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

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

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

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

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

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

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

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.

There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.

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

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

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.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

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

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

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

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

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

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of 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.

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Part of growing up is realizing the frustrating, heartbreaking truth that intense and sustained long-term effort is needed to effect change.

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

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

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

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

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

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

It's called 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It's the greatest book I've ever.

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

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

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

On a daily basis, it's heartbreaking to see women put up with violence for years silently and feel ashamed of speaking out about 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.

It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

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

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.