Top 75 Heartbreaking Quotes

My favorite actors are Jim Carrey and Chris Farley, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams. Robin Williams is the best – to be able to do all that comedy but also be heartbreaking.
Evan Peters
I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn’t give us everything.
Vijay Sethupathi
It’s heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
Gloria Steinem
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
Annie Lennox
I think, in general, the sport’s frustrating because I think it’s one of only a few sports in the world where you’ve got so many other variables. Not taking anything away from the winner, but the best man doesn’t always win. I think part of that makes the sport really exciting, and part of it makes it heartbreaking.
Daniel Ricciardo
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it’s going to be heartbreaking.
Bill Nye
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer’s disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
Sandra Day O’Connor
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?
Alexandra Bracken
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me – to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
Jacqueline Woodson
There’s been times when I’ve had heartbreaking moments and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe you said that,’ or ‘I can’t believe you did that’. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it’ll always hurt, but I’ve never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.
Shailene Woodley
You see a script, and you say, ‘Oh, I can play the heck out of that,’ talk to your agent, and he says they don’t want to see you. That’s heartbreaking.
Rita Moreno
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.
Shawn Johnson
People we love have to move away or move on all the time. And it sucks. And it’s heartbreaking. But it’s a real part of life.
Lauren Ash
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbr

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Arthur Rimbaud
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.
Jessica Parker Kennedy
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.
Ryan Murphy
It’s heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.
Jagmeet Singh
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.
Stephanie March
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
Chuck Palahniuk
Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
Stockard Channing
I’ve had the chance to meet families with children who are sick, and it’s heartbreaking.
Cole Swindell
I feel like there is a real lack of empathy – not just in American society, it’s definitely happening in Britain as well – and it’s heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
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.
Julien Baker
‘Everwood’ I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don’t have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.
Greg Berlanti
When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.
Amber Rudd
‘Hairspray’ has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.
Dove Cameron