# Quote — George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

> When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

- Author: [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md)
- Book: [Heartbreak House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/heartbreak-house.md)
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- Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/heartbreak-house/when-your-heart

## More from this book

> "He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/heartbreak-house/he-must-be-greatly.md)

> "We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/heartbreak-house/we-know-now.md)