quotes for a broken heart

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 7



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson



A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~Henry Giles



It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Friedrich von Schiller



Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift



Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard



Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne



Out of all the people I've ever met, you're the one who makes me draw those silly little hearts on my papers. ~Author Unknown



The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne



And Christ is risen today! ~George Newell Lovejoy



I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ~William Albert Allard, "The Photographic Essay"



Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~John Wayne



Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter



My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~Orson Welles



Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Every man expects some miracle - either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. ~Paul Valery



Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974



And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ~Galileo Galilei