Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.
Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.
It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced.
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved.
Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.
Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.
Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.
I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her.
I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.