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

 * Insults have broken my heart and left me weak
 * The Bible, Psalm 69:20


 * Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
 * and, ', from the album ' (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.


 * May Inana pour oil on my heart that aches.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection III at,.

To evening, but some heart did break.
 * Never morning wore
 * 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)