260+ Best Break Up Quotes To Heal Your Pain

Being together with someone is the greatest thing in the world but we all had to know that is that a possibilty to finish and breaking up. When that day come, you have to remember that day will not be the end of this world. You will be not the first person who is facing with that situation. So it will pass. You will be great again. Just be patient.

Regardless of how you define it, break up can often be hard to express, but with goodbye quotes, you can put into words. Understand your feelings with quotes about being hurt and quotes about lost love of some of the most famous writers, actors, and even philosophers from history.

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Break Up Quotes

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – Nick Carraway

The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten. – William Faulkner

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Unknown

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. – Unknown

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I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. – Steve Maraboli

I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT. – Steve Maraboli

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. – Paulo Coelho

If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours, if not it wasn’t meant to be. – Unknown

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them … but still move on without them. – Mandy Hale

Someday it’s gonna make sense. – Unknown

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. – Robert Holden

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall. – Jodi Picoult

Passivity means death; activity is living. If you are passive, you allow negative things to come into your life. – Unknown

Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go. – Unknown

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. – Frederick Douglass

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. – Guy Finley

Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next. – Unknown

It just hurts. A lot … – Unknown

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Dear heart, This is what happens when you try to make decisions on your own. Sincerely, Brain. – Unknown

One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones. – Turcois Ominek

Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker. – Miranda Kenneally

Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself, and the right people will like you. – Unknown

I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile. – Lone Star

Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary. – Oscar Wilde

Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It’s a lie. – Sarah Dessen

I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. – James Dashner

I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I am better than that. Goodbye! – Steve Maraboli

Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser. – Unknown

I need to let go of this false hope that you will change your mind and come back to me. – Unknown

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely. – Deepika Padukone

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey

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You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. – Unknown

It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t. – Jane Stanton Hitchcock

I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength. – Alex Elle

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. – Jessica Hatchigan

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering. – Ben Okri

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. – Graham Greene

He needs space and time, as if this were physics and not a human relationship. – Kathryn Stockett

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi

Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing. – Marcia Wieder

Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. – Genevieve Rhode

suffering break up quotes

The course of true love did never run smooth. – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Unknown

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. – The Wizard of Oz

Take a step back today, look at all those beautiful things you have. – Unknown

Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along. – Nicholas Sparks

I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. – Carl Sagan

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Anthony Robbins

Love is what you were born with. Fear is what you learned here. – Marianne Williamson

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. – J.K. Rowling

Set your life on fire, and seek those who fan the flames. – Rumi

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it. – Jack Kerouac

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Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with. – Isabel Lopez

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us – Alexander Graham Bell

Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. – Dave Mustaine

It’s going to be OK. – Unknown

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. – Mark Twain

I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found. – R.H.Sin

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. – Chinese Proverb

If I don’t listen to the stories my mind is telling me, is there a problem right now? – Unknown

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

famous break up quotes

You’re always one decision away from a totally different life. – Unknown

In order to grow and to experience, one must leave his comfort zone. Very often this means that you have to do what you are afraid of in order to find what you didn’t know you were looking for. This takes a lot of courage. – Unknown

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone. – Keith Urban

Your presence alone is enough to say look at who I am without you. – Nina LaCour

Ask yourself, who would Columbus be today if he hadn’t had the courage to lose sight of the shore back then? – Unknown

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Just by being there, looking at the problem or at the darkness of your thoughts straight in the eye and deciding you won’t surrender to it, you won’t let it shallow you; you are being the bravest you can ever be and starting the path to your personal freedom. – Nelson Mandela

The hottest love has the coldest end. – Socrates

The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to everyday. – Unknown

The heart was made to be broken. – Oscar Wilde

I didn’t stop loving you. I decided to stop showing it because no matter how hard I tried, you wouldn’t get it. – Unknown

Pain is the person you never want to see. But without Pain, how would you recognize Joy? – Unknown

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best, than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived. – Margaret Mitchell

What is broken is broken. – Unknown

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The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. – Anonymous

But he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world. – Jennifer Weiner

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. – Yoko Ono

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. – Dr. Seuss

How do you love someone and just…Walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…You get up, get dressed, go to work…How can you do that? How can you be okay with that? – Ranata Suzuki

The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. – Nora Ephron

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept. – Unknown

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. – Marian Keyes, Watermelon

The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you. – Unknown

Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars. – Violeta Para

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal. – Cheryl Strayed

Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength. – Karen Salmanson

Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story. – Jennifer Salaiz

Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. – Miss Piggy

Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. – Harriet Evans

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Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either. – Golda Meir

Hearts live by being wounded. – Oscar Wilde

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong, and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain. Damn, there’s nothing like that, is there? I’ve been there and you have, too. You’re nodding your head. – Henry Rollins

You’ll always be my favorite ‘what if’. – Unknown

No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. – Faraaz Kazi

Trust that an ending is followed by a beginning. – Unknown

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates, and guys are just people to have fun with. – Candace Bushnell

You are telling the story of your life. You have the power to tell a different one. You choose, every day, how you interpret others’ actions, events, and the world around you. You and only you have the power to change this. Change the script! – Laura Elliott

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step. – Naeem Callaway

Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone. – Andy Biersack

Bad days call for foods that are bad for your butt. – H.W. Ward

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. – Carl Sandburg

Love is unconditional. Relationships are not. – Grant Gudmunson

The way they leave tells you everything. – Unknown

top break up quotes

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. – Romain Rolland

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off. – Demi Lovato

When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. – Paulo Coelho

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually be re-directed to something better. – Unknown

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I don’t want you back, but I would kill for the feeling of meeting you all over again. – Jessica Katoff

I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. – Donna Lynn Hope

The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did. – Unknown

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up. – Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

If you lost it, it’s because you’re meant to find something better. Trust, let go, and make room for what’s coming. – Mandy Hale

You have the right to leave someone, but at least tell them why, cause what’s even more painful than being abandoned, is knowing you’re not worth an explanation. – Drake

If you went back and erased all the mistakes you’ve made, you erase yourself. – Unknown

sad break up quotes

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

The habit of forever looking backward is fatal to efficiency just as is the habit of looking forward too much. Today is the day. Live the day and have done with it. Fling your best into it, then you have nothing to regret, and there is no need of anticipating tomorrow. – O. S. Marden

You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone. – The Goddess Rebellion

When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on – series polygamy – until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. – Tom Robbins

He’s going to be sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain and remember what an incredible woman you are. – Unknown

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character. – Walter Anderson

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. – Nicholas Sparks

I like my relationships like I like my eggs – over easy. – Jared Kintz

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party. – Nick Hornby

I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you. – Paul Anka

When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. – J. K. Rowling

If you’re gonna make a change, you’re gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me. – Tony Robbins

Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. – Unknown

inspiring break up quotes

Things to know about life: ‘No’ is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation. – Unknown

When you leave weary of me without a work, I shall gently let you go. – Kim Sowol

One day, I hope you look back at what we had, and regret every single thing you did to let it end. – Unknown

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. – Barbara De Angelis

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. – Stephen King

I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay. – Sara Evans

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. – E.A. Bucchianeri

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. – Mineko Iwasaki

It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My life until that point had pivoted around some form of education, and all of a sudden, it was gone. Homework, classes, running around, and then -bam – nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even mentions it. You just suddenly have a gap and have to decide how to fill it. A break-up is like that gap, only much, much more painful. One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof. And even though I’m not one of those people who has to be in a relationship all the time, I was feeling at a loss. – Lish McBride

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

I’m tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for. – Unknown

Cheer up, sweet, beautiful girl. You are going to be in love again and it will be magnificent. – Unknown

You made me feel like I was hard to love and I will never forgive you for that. – Unknown

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich? – Helen Fielding

And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end. – Junot Díaz

Even on my weakest days, I get a little bit stronger – Sara Evans

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break, and all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intentions. So go, Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you. – L.R. Frost

It’s always darkest before the dawn. – Unknown

inspirational break up quotes

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. – Elizabeth Gilbert

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt them. – Melissa be la Cruz

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. – Gregory Roberts

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. – Unknown

Forgiveness is not something we do for other people. It’s something we do for ourselves to move on. – Unknown

Every woman that finally figured out her worth has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. – Shannon L. Alder

Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over. – Maggi Richard

Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as a temporary happiness. – Unknown

My life has become this one big I don’t know. – Unknown

I can feel myself slowly fading from your mind. – Unknown

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams. – Kate Chisman

One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. – Mandy Hale

I wore your promise on my finger for one year. I’ll wear your name on my heart ’till I die. Because you were my boy; you were my only boy forever. – Coco J. Ginger

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. – Unknown

The sign of true forgiveness is when you stop wishing it had been any other way. – Unknown

amazing break up quotes

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. – The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything’s okay, and you tell them you’re just tired. And you’re trying to smile. And they’re trying to smile. – Richard Siken

A heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. – Sara Teasdale

I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart. – Britney Spears

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. – Fulton Sheen

The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future. – Greg Behrendt

You don’t make me feel like you used to. That’s why I’m leaving. That’s why people leave each other. They come to their senses and get selfish again. – Henry Rollins

And one day, your name didn’t make me smile anymore. – Unknown

No more tears, because I didn’t lose you. You lost me. – Unknown

How do you know when it’s over? Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you. – Gunnar Ardelius

I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. – Carrie Brownstein

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitley

If you can love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you can love the right one. – Unknown

Anyone can give you attention and compliments, but someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty. – Charles Orlando

Someday we’ll forget the hurt, the reason we cried, and who caused us pain. We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh, forgive, believe, and love all over again. – Unknown

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. – Jean Kerr

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit, and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes if I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose. – Rita Rudner

It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before. – E. Lockhart

And I’m dying to know, is it killing you like it’s killing me? – Taylor Swift

emotional break up quotes

Everybody said, Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken. – Agatha Christie

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there. – Billy Corgan

Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go. – Nikita Gill

‘That’s what happens,’ she said. ‘You let people in, and they destroy you.’ – Unknown

We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye. – Unknown

One of the happiest moments ever is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change. – Unknown

The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes. Breathing your air…Touching your skin…Saying goodbye…The last time I felt alive…I was dying. – Ranata Suzuki

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. – Coco Ginger

But as time goes, others do do, and often do, much much better. – Coco Ginger

Well, you can’t have heartbreak without love. – Leila Sales

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. – Chinese Proverb

Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live in the present, and make it beautiful. – Unknown

Let me be clear, my love is unconditional, but your presence in my life is not. The moment that you prove that your value of me does not measure up to my sense of self-worth, I’ll have no problem unconditionally loving the memory of you and moving on. – Carson Patrick Bowie

When life shows you its time to let someone go, and you refuse to, life will allow the person to hurt you to the point you have no choice but to let go. – Unknown

Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are. – Jo Blackwell-Preston

What’s that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up. – Alanis Morissette

I felt so much that I started to feel nothing. – Unknown

sensitive break up quotes

He put me through hell and I called it love. – Unknown

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. – Omar Khayyam

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it. – Junot Diaz

And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end. – Elizabeth Eulberg

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? – Nicholas Sparks

For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old. – Nora Ephron

I’m trying to be a more positive person every day. Today, I’m positive everyone is an asshole. – Unknown

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. – Mark Twain

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. – Jean-Yves Leloup

You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. – John Green

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be. – C. JoyBell C.

Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. – Steve Maraboli

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? – Leo Tolstoy

Don’t be sorry. I trusted you. My fault, not yours. – Unknown

trusted break up quotes

The only thing I’m committed to right now is bettering myself. – Unknown

I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. – Steve Maraboli

Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities. – Patti Roberts

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. – Gabrielle Zevin

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. – Jocelyn Soriano

I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. – Coco Ginger

When a breakup happens, you see your world falling down around you. Each memory that you have built together one brick at a time has tumbled down and lies at your feet. But this relationship that has been left in ruins is a chance to build something new and something better with someone who is new and better than your last relationship. – Unknown

I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go. – Jeffrey McDaniel

The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right. – Neil Gaiman

Do not listen to people who think they have all the answers. Nobody is your savior, except you and perhaps a God you do or do not pray to. Read things that make you feel, that challenge what you think you know. Get fired up. Push yourself beyond those ten feet in front of you. Let yourself be pissed the fuck off. Maybe if you get angry enough, you’ll change your damn life. Maybe if you let yourself be consumed by envy or anger or frustration or disappointment, you will finally do what it takes to make yourself happy. – Jamie Varon

We draw maps of each other’s pasts. Heartbreaks colored in black. Grief outlined in purple. The happiest times shaded yellow. This is how we learn from each other. We are so scared and brave. We are so terrified and willing. We rewrite the definition of brave, and it is this: love again. love again. love again. – Fortesa Latifi

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces. – Shane Koyczan

I have a big hole in my heart, But it’ll close over. – Charlaine Harris

Maybe that’s just how he looks at girls in cars. Looks like they need saving, doesn’t see she’s her own Superhero. Her kryptonite, not his hands. The Galaxy behind his glasses. The promises that fall silent when the sun rises and the sheets are made. She only falls when she forgets her power, that she is the moon and stars and everything he wishes upon. She thinks, maybe that’s just how he looks at girls in cars. Doesn’t even see she’s the one driving. – Ari Eastman

Never forget, you have value. You are worth time, worth energy, worth worship. Your delicate enchantments are a holy wine. Silver aura of my moon. Song of my air. My afternoon shadows. My divine messenger. The literature of stars is in your very pores. – Benedict Smith

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better. – Coco J. Ginger

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love; I will keep my respect. – Amit Kalantri

He looks like a runway model. How in the world am I going to be able to reject that? The world is so unfair. Seriously, it’s like turning Brad Pitt down for a date. The girl who could actually do it should win an award for idiot of the century. – Colleen Houck

If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don’t. It’s not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up. – Donna Lynn Hope

Our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. – Moira Fowley Doyla

uplifting break up quotes

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore. – Naomi Shibab Nye

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much. – Diana Wynne Jones

You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me. – Sylvia Day

I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but now want it back. – Paulo Coelho

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on. – Corey Johnson

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on. – Jeff Ross

Don’t wait. If it’s not right, move on. – Andy Lau

Heartbroken? Channel your sorrow to become worthy of love. The world will be yours. – Tapan Ghosh

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having. – Sarah Mlynowski

When someone you love says goodbye, you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. – Shannon L. Alder

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. – L. Ron Hubbard

Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart. – Cassandra Clare

Life moves on and so should we – Spencer Johnson

Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. – Carrie Underwood

In order to truly value loyalty, you must first endure the affliction of betrayal. – Thomas Merritt

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past. – Dan Brown

deep break up quotes

To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. – Jack Kornfield

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. – Deepak Chopra

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. – J.S.B. Morse

I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable. – Lykke Li

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better. – Isabel Gillies

Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart because they only have one. Break their bones; they have 206 of those! – Jayy Von Monroe