Throughout history very little has inspired art and music like heartbreak and in keeping with that theme I just wanted to share these select images for your viewing pleasure by some talented artists.
Another heart pic dealing with protection more so than breakage is this locked heart which I think is simply beautiful also.
This piece below is a very dramatic representation of the outer layer of a heart shattering signifying how beautiful it can be to finally let your heart out.
One of my favourite artist interpretations, the broken heart scan.
And finally, what was broken can still be mended.
I wrote an article following up this one, not full of pics, but pearls of wisdom. Please take a read by clicking below:
Never Let Anyone Steal Your Sunshine
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Very impressive art there. So true about the inspiration for some of the best music (and other forms of art) of all time. It’s refreshing to see something positive come from someone suffering from a broken heart.
Thanks for sharing these images.
Hi ya Guyz keep it up as being one of you broken, dying and attempting for sucides again and again but still i m breathing hope will last sooner not intrested to live any more as now my life is cursed
i am feelin like that now…hope things work out for you
Lovely images. I found these when googling ‘broken heart’ images. Gorgeous!
don”t lose ur life,if u lose it,it can be lose ur heart again!!!
True , its a good expression to show how broken you are…
We would had start our life’s together in bout 3 weeks from now..
Yet i’m cursed to live alone and take the pain over and over again…
Wish they could rip my heart out so i’d could be free for one…
*True Art you creatid here.*
gr8 work, helped me heal
hi can v be frnds?
beautiful and true, it helps to know others feel the pain, but we can help eachother heal, you helped me heal today
I’m glad these images have touched so many of you. I know what it’s like and when I first posted this, I didn’t expect such a massive response to it. I appreciate you all for leaving comments and I am glad if I helped any of you.
You are loved, remember that.
we are loved…? no…well im not…ive had my heart broken so many times, it is in peices that are so small i have locked the remains away, waiting for the right key to possibly unlock it.
Hi, I believe that the heart is beautiful and depending on how handled can generate a lovely human being or a bitter one. I love the artwork that you are displaying here especially the heart thats shedding it’souter shell and revealing a more beautiful inner heart. with that said please contact me via email i would like to use that image for a project I have coming up. my name is also my facebook name.
My heart is broken now…………..
Nicola….
Right now, my heart is torn into pieces. The pain inside is so crucial.. I hate to fall in love again but theres nothing I can do for it. My mind says No.. but my heart says YES.. Damn this heart!!!!! and damn! the person whom this heart beats for…
i kno exactly how yu feel…im goin thru da same thing…
im going through same..i have for a while..im reaching the end now…i may just never love or be loved again..
guys my haert had broken.can u help me?my e-mail is( darklove.dream@yahoo.com)please help me if u can.plz:((
i am going 2 die if you don’t help me
do u know what i’ts like, when your heart gets broken and just when you start to recover, it gets broken again, u just recover from that one and again it gets broken..and soo on..I hope that i’m the only one cuz i dont want anyone 2 feel this way :((
My heart is so broken, I can’t even speak to anyone without starting to cry, I can’t look at him, without thinking ont our moment, in our day, and then the memory, of him breaking my heart just to hours later, comes up and makes me cry like a baby 😦 It’s so painfull I can’t even breath. He does not look at me anymore, every thing goes tru my mind, like he never liked me, or he just had me for fun 😦 I just want to die, I ain’t got no energy left, im sick and sad and my tears start to mix up with my blood 😦 Great pictures anyway =(
that is exactly happened to me …i almost die when he left me,i was committed suicide b4…and i tried to forget him,just to move on in my life but why if i try doing forget him…..he was attempting to go back with me ….i want to accept him but what if he will do again what he did b4…im scared coz if i accept him and he will do again what he did …..maybe this time i will surely die…
You should never allow someone to dim your shine. What would killing yourself prove? Love yourself and maybe you’ll be happy
your not the only one sadly…you just described my feeliings..
I know exactly how u feel. over n over n over again. no matter how many times ive tried to piece it, glue it, tape it, staple it, wrap it up it ALWAYS seems to get shattered and the damage is worse than before……… 😦
Man…. I love the skeleton one…. thats my favourite, and truely reflects how Im feeling right now…..I’m sure if I was to go for a scan, thats what they’ll see. love it, love it, love it.
mended heart is my favorite. It reminds me of a picture I drew not to long ago. THis is great stuff man and I’m really digging it.
i fuckin hate love at the moment it just breaks your heart into a thousand million pices and leaves you in pain to die by yourself….why does it have to heart do much….if the saying if your heart was really broken youd be dead was real….id seriously be dead rite this moment…….my heart is in soo much pain i cant handle it anymore…i hate it…………..FUCK…aiyah i totally agree with you… love is a good feeling bt once your heart gets broken then so are you..it makes you mad it makes you sad it makes you cry and it makes you want to die…they tell you they love you bt then they play games with your heart and eventually tear it all apart….i will always love this person no matter wat this may be true even thoh they always turn me blue….:)
that is so true x
😦 i cant describe how my heart is breaken :S F*** who is in ma mind !!!
these pictures are amazing kinda just what i needed im going thorugh alot so yeah thanks 🙂 ):
oh and if anybody wants to talk e-mail me, kewl_chic27@yahoo.com 😦 🙂 😦 man love suck ass……………
no it dosent
yes it does
Ironic how a broken heart is so beautiful!
Thank you for this post. I put one picture on my website. Is that okay with you? How can I tag the appropriate artist?
These pics are beautiful. I can relate to them so well. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank god for made this side.
Love hurts..
hey guys yeah me n my ex broke up lyk a month ago loll n we only went out 4 lyk 5 weeks but its amazing how fast u can full in love, n even more amazing how fast ur heart breaks lol but i realy lyk theese pics lol xOx ilyy
i love the oics they are amazing
Thks for picture – am desperate to get a bigger jpg of the broken heart (your 3rd picture). Can you tell me where you found it so I can enlarge it without losing definition???
Thks
Amanda
Unfortunately that’s as big as the pic gets, as far as I know anyway, sorry Amanda….
i want to get the 3rd picture bigger too… please
girls are heartbroker, they always deals to sale and purchase . girls wants only money.
help me 2
fix my heart
my hard is my love
och manno das ist so süß alles mi ging es schon oft so
this is a wonderful pic .
so sweet
my sweet heart
all i say love is painfull, and when ur heart broke u will feel more pain, but me… my heart became a pice of stone
Ok i get wat everyone is talkin about but i fell in love n im only 15. Everyone says its not possible to fall in love at this age but it is n every relationship has thier ups n downs. Ive been with him for almost 4 months n its great. Love may be painful but true love is real n can last as long as you want it to if you believe in it. =)
no…sorry i disagree..i dont believe in love anymore…
awesome pics!
their so me
c vré kon auré jamé une vré amitié :(:s
vodka cures a broken hearts quite quickly…:P
true true true =)=)
love is the worst possible thing to lose… once u lose it u don’t want it back because of all the pain… but once u love them and they break ur heart. u still love them with all those little pieces…
love the pics
Thanks, I’m heart broken now… Nice pic
I was looking for broken hearts for my homework and i loved the last one.
Thanks
d shattered heart is my fav…da person who realy breaks my heart,shows me hw 2 luv some1 beter…tug v r not meant 2 b 2gth,yet my faith 2wards luv wil nvr shake…i ll soon find my hapines:)
how can you be so confident..?
These photos are very good
No matter how much a heart is shattered it still beats.
Only true love’s ending can stop a beating heart, life is for love, and embracing death is surrendering the hope of love.
VERRY NICE PIC
YAA Adding this to my bookmarks. Thank You
my love story
She was in my school,my friend love her but i dont,one day i go to her and told her that my friend love you,she refuse my friend leve her,one day she come to me and ask for my cell phn number,i give her,she call me and talk to me alot,after a few days she sms me that she love me,i told her to give me time she say ok i give u,then i say her that i love you too,the time goes on and we get closer to each other then she goes out of country and we were in contact one day i got to know that she is in love with some there i was shoked and my heart brokes.
sometimes a broken heart shows how much better it should have been in my opinion it could also help you realize that if they loved you it wouldn’t have been so broken
no love anyone ok
no more excuse for lover ok dont fall in love in life
ya.. i think everyone here knows how it feels like to be broken hearted.. like i never felt this way about a guy b4 but i was in love with him and i still am.. it been like 5 months i think and i cant trust anybody like i trusted him like i quit eating when he broke up with me for somebody else. and i dont talk anymore. then i got a fone call from him and my heart sank to the ground cuz i didnt kno wht to do.. i g2g but thnx for readin.. if u did.
i read..understood..and im like that…i dont trust anyone anymore
love sucks!!!!!! i hate it
no love is the most beautiful feeling…..
love never hurts if u r fallen for the rite person…
To the author of this website: I saw the pocture of teh red heart with teh lock inside, I wanted to use it for the front cover of my book i am publishing with Blurb.com. Is that ok?
I simply complied these pictures after a web search, they are not mine to redistribute and I cannot give any such permission, sorry.
love not alwayz hurt…..it doesnt when you are fallen for the rite person….dats ur mistake…!!
i am absolutely happy wid my lyf….i love you ______
im sorry but tell us how that works out will you? i need a LOT of convincing that love doesnt always hurt
Love HUrtzz… </3
at first u will say i’m in the right person i’m not doing the same mistake…..and this ove will stay for ever but u will get hurt no way u hide and u will feel like ur dead u don’t want do any thing just u think about and know how much ur life is suck and sad…..but i try it with other way change ur routin and have fun like that u will feel less broke u can dance and jump by the way it really makes u feel better and don’t lesten to sad songs cuz it will make u worst.u can prefer rap or maybe rock …..cuz u will just lose ur time…we have one life we should be happy so do something..!!!!!!!!!the sadness won’t help at all
I’ve fallen for someone but it’s hard ’cause I have to let her GO!
I was in love with since first day of my college. But i thought that it was just attraction. Slowly we both became friend and were the best friend of the college. We were too close and we both used to be together whole the day. I didn’t knew when i was in love with her. Now i am too crazy about her but she doesn’t love me. She never understands my feelings. But i still love her and my love is pure.
do you how it feels like if the one who you lover cheatted on you.its horribele i dont want anyone to feel the pain that i am feeling now.its like you are so angry but also sad and you want to cry but your taers just wont come out. dont ever trust someone who you dont no exacty i thought i knew him but i was wrong and now i never want to fall in love again in my life.
its just all his faoult.
ive been cheated on…i feel the same…i tried to move on..i even thought i found someone else..but then she broke my heart too…i have little heart left..i rarely care about anyone and anything…i no longer trust as i did…im alone forever…
i love all the people after i visit this site
tute huye paimane me kbhi jaam nhi aata
ishq k mriz ko kbi aaram nhi aata
ae dil todne wale itna to socha hota
k tuta hua dil kisi k kam nhi aata
i love it very much
i ahve gone through this pain and its unbarible it makes u want to die
how to say i love u
and u do not know if he love u or love somebody else
My heart is broken
I feel sorry for all of you. I know the feeling. I’ll never make the same mistake twice.
i can undrstnd all these thngs….. as i m going thru ths phase of life
why does love hurt so much……….u love somebody and later on u find out that she was a b***……..
it hurts man………..after 6 years when u come to know that….u were living a fake life……….
u sacrificed everything for the one who didnt deserved even a bit ……….but i still luv u
i cant hate u ….dont know why but i cant…..i m cursed and live like this only…
love is true pain…….
These artists are AMAZING!! Its kinda sad how so many of us have had or are suffering from a broken heart…Do these artists have more pictures? I could stare at these all day
QUESTION: We feel like we’re dying without our lost love. So then, ***were we dying the day before we met them?***
Without them is without them–period. We return to where we were before them. …Dying?
Of course not. Then why dying NOW?
My big question.
the 3rd one seems to be everyone’s favorite and i have that on my phone, if you want it just go to http://www.3gforfree.com on your mobile web and go to backgrounds and then go to hearts and its labeled broken heart.
😦 😦 😦
Rather than being negative about a broken heart, why not see the positive side? Yes, it hurts, but more than likely the experience is helping you grow as a person and this artwork and all of the movies, books and songs written about lost love proves that something good can and will come of all of the pain. 🙂
no!! there IS NO brightside!
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i love this pic. but i don’t wont my heart to end up this if the guy i like doesn’t like me!!!
I love one girl i cant told she My storie start in 05-11-2009
HI,
I wanted to share this with Friends and Family on Facebook – it truly represents my heart…from a broken one to a mended one…each time I tried, the security check will not allow me to enter the text in the box for security purposes…p.s. I noticed this file is under Barbados…coicidently, after my father died on the Ocean Ranger, Feb 15th 1982 during a massive sea storm, I moved to Barbados and lived while attending St. Ursula’s and prior to that Codrington High School…too bad I can’t share this.:(
It’s amazing how pictures can move us so. I was moved by these images – thank you
Hey, love the images. I am going to be using this image for a poetry post on my website, I hope that is ok. let me know if you have any issues with it and I will take it down immediately.
otherwise, thank you very much. matteo~
I like many of you am in the same boat. My husband/father of my two youngest has decided to separate to decide if he really loves me or not….after 13 years….my heart hurts so bad I can’t describe it. And while I just want to curl up and die…I cannot because I must go on for my children.
It is sad to hear that. I wish everyone appreciate one another one day. We are all human and we all have feelings. It is not fair to pursue your inner desire while avoiding the sacrifices made by the one you love.
WOW MAN DATS DEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!
When people see a broken heart the automatically think its that way bc of love. Well thats not true, your heart can b broken for many other reasons too. Like my heart is broken bc i have such harsh and terrible family problems. I feel so empty and helpless inside. If only you all knew the things i have gone threw so far in my life and i am only 17. I someday wish to write a book or become a public speaker to tell my story. To support and help the ones who are in the same situation as me. I want the world to know how much people suffer day by day and that everyone just stands by and watchs. I am very open so if you would like to know more, i will be more than happy to share.
– Crystal
my heart is broken due to family problems…due to love…due to betrayal…
i love this all broken heart pic
Those picture are very very beatiful!!! I WANT MORE!!!!:) But some picture are some sad=(
i really lve my fiancee bt zat hve bcome an obsession, cnt stand if even he talks wiz sme1 else bt my craziness may lead me too far zat i may also lose him.dnt knw if sm1 cn understand my feelings or will say zat i at fault
i think that those heart r like for somebody that had broken up with his/her boy/girlfriend….
so it was like my friend who had broke up with his girlfriend yesterday night then,he call me 2 go out with him just for walk because that he is really hurt…
I wrote an article following this one, not full of pics, but pearls of wisdom. Please take a read.
The first one is descriptive
Pcs. in very nice
very nice this heart
hi there!
ilove those pics they are really lovable&so cute
hey wonderful pics
they inspire me to say:
(death is easier than broken hearts at least
it doesn’t hurt as much as love)
Love is a four letter word that seems a simple as it sound. But is not, it means much more than what it sounds. They say love is a deep, tender, inevitable feeling of affection and solitude toward someone. It has many different meaning to all different types of people. Love is the main word singers sing about, writers write about, and most of all people talk about. But do they really know what the true meaning of love is? Have they really found that pure love that everybody’s crazy for? My most defining moment that changed my life completely was my first love.
I was only thirteen when I moved to Arkansas in 2005, we lived in Chicago for seven years and before that we also lived in New York for about six years. It was a big change in mine and my family’s lives. I would’ve never expected to live in a place like Nashville, Arkansas where there’s no buildings, some stores, and not that many people. People talked funny and dressed differently; it was a very different environment. It was the last place I would’ve thought I would ever fall in love. I met many great people here in Arkansas, people that I would never forget and that would always be carved in my heart. But they weren’t anything compared to this person that gave me a reason to live.
I remember it like it was yesterday, April 5th, 2008, a regular Saturday night and I was late for church. When I entered the service the music was playing so loud that I could feel it in my bones. As the music was playing many people started dancing in the Holy Spirit. I was just standing there, when I heard his voice. His voice that made my heart skip seven beats at the same time, gave me Goosebumps from head to toes, the voice that made me realize why I was even breathing in the first place. He called me by my name and told me “Why do you keep on choosing to ignore me? Don’t you realize I love you and I always have? I gave my only son to die for you, I choose you even before you were born. I’m here with you and I’m always going to be there for you.” I felt his presence all over me, a joy so abundant that I can’t even explain it. At that moment I knew I fell in love.
God had to take me out of Chicago to make realize what was really important in my life. But he not only changed my life he also changed both of my brothers lives. He called my older brother to preach His Word around the world. He took him out of the gangs and drugs that were surrounding him in Chicago and now he has his own ministry preaching wherever he goes. My younger brother plays instruments in church and lives happily for God. And as for me, I am one of the youth leaders in my church, vice secretary, and a Sunday school teacher. Even thought we may fall sometimes, we will always know that He’s there to pick us up again. That’s why I’m grateful that now I live in Arkansas. That experience changed my life forever.
I’ve always heard that a person can’t ever forget their first love; it is something that a person would keep in their memories forever. I was one of the few lucky ones who’s first love was my true love. Not just love that you hear talk about in a teenage magazine, a romantic novel, or even a fairytale; I found a love that is pure, one that a person can’t find in a human. I fell in love with God, the real meaning of love.
I just want to say that even tho you are going tru some bad things right now or somebody broke your heart, there is somebody out there that LOVES you!! And that is GOD. So don’t give up
god? GOD? hmph i dont believe in god at all! i hate religion! just like i hate so many other things! please dont prach about “god” on the internet…especially on a site like this…please…no disrespect to your beliefs but please..just dont…
im atheist, i dont believe in god at all, sorry
gw adl anak hasill broken heart…
sumpah sakit banget rasa nya…
ingin rasa nya gw lari dari kenyataan nii semua tpi gw gg bisaaaa….!!!!!!
for the only reason that i became tanned he left ma 😦 its so pain full cant stop my tears roll on my cheeks i have to think that my life is so imperfect
:]
=) hi
good
well, brain is always up top on ur heart, let brain help u workin out with ya heart so it will nt get broken…hope it make sense..peace
its better 2 4 get than to face the truth
i will hungr may hurt is broken Omy Gosh
ambot ninyo oi wla lain pict sa broken heartz
I started dating this guy and we had sex and i got pregnant… I’m dying inside and i don’t know what to do because he left me for his ex-girlfriend, who is also pregnant. I refuse to have an abortion because i think it is wrong and i am such a family oriented person that i cant give my baby up for adoption. what am i supposed to do? i started falling in love with this guy and now i have nothing left because he still has my heart and now i have a constant reminder of him growing inside me. i don’t know if i can do this without him. and i know he wont take me back so it would be pointless trying to get him to. he was everything i ever wanted in a guy. and i mean EVERYTHING. but now he is gone and i am pregnant and my heart is broken… write back if you have any kind of advice. because i really need some right now.
sometimes a broken heart shows how much better it should have been in my opinion it could also help you realize that if they loved you it wouldn’t have been so broken
lauren wut u should do is keep ur baby nd u shouldnt go back with him cuz that proves that his is not worthy enough the most improtant thing u need to worry abt is ur baby that u are going to have dont worry ant the boy cuz he is not worth it at all. im very sorry ur heart is broken i kow how u feel. but now all i give u is good luck.
I love Marco Castillo. (Markanthony)
bicharte waqt the un k labo pe meri gazal,
gazal b wo jo kisi ko sunai na thi….
i know letting him go is never easy, but then i love him so much.but i guess we are not meant for each other.goodness!how can i forget him if he stills lingers on my mind..?
broken…destroyed…betrayed…unloved…shattered..these are things i am…, hate…distrust…pain…heart break..sadness…these are the things i feel…
luv the fukin hearts dude they rok like ninjas
i love heart so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so……… much love
i love heart
it looks cool! 🙂
i know 🙂
all look cool
ok i love the art work here what programs did you use? I use to do design. and to all those broken hearted people out there it is part of life you are not the first and will not be the last and i will tell you what one wise person told me… as long as you are with the wrong one or still stuck on the wrong one you will never find the right one. you know what you want and deserve now you have to let yourself have it. i am a lesbian and no matter who you love or dont love you will get hurt if you never felt hurt than you wouldent appreciate happines
I didn’t do the artwork, I just compiled my fave images from the net and now I have no idea where they originally came from. I wanted to go back and give credit but I have been unable to find the original site.
omg i like all of these photos
🙂 ;0
your pictures speak of how i feel now. only difference is, my heart is the one that has been mended over and over, by myself, and the final blow has destroyed it completely.
4my understand smtimes u cn feel ur self ntng sweet like luv but wen u ar deep deep in lov u cn fee it bitter d whorst so guys tk easy wn u ar lov it lik a war wit no end easy to start hard to stop hey no1 cn evr stope it only hwo join it
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nun of you know me but if any of you wanna talk you can email me at pmasen@live.com …….i have been through almost anything so i can understand…i was and still am suicidal.. i cut…drink..smoke..and some other things but i hate to have anyone else go down this path also so if anyone needs to talk or just some1 that will listen then email me and i will be there..your not alone
Its my heart
funny…
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i luv it like 4real
One of your heart pictures inspired a poem and I hope you like it and are flattered and allow me to use it on my blog with proper credit of course. Here’s the link: http://petearmetta.com/2012/09/27/these-last-few-days/
Please let me know what you think! I love your stuff.
I am trying to contact or have someone contact me. I am interessted in using one of your images in a project I have coming up and the theme is a broken heart please contact me via email as soon aas posssible. Thank you in advance.
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