There’s not much that’s worse than heartbreak. Insightful quotes about having a broken heart will help you on a journey of healing and recovery. You’ll feel better.
Regardless of how you define it, love can often be hard to express, but with love hurts quotes, you can put into words. Understand your feelings with unrequited love quotes and lost love sayings of some of the most famous writers, actors, and even philosophers from history.
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Best Broken Heart Quotes
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it. Unknown
You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them. John Green
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
The heart will break, but broken love on. Lord Byron
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep. Margaret George
Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is. Unknown
When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut — it will heal, but there will always be a scar. Soo Jie
I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore. Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you … then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go. Aubrey Drake Graham
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve Maraboli
I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces. Unknown
I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time than hold a permanently empty heart forever. H.C. Paye
The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart. Unknown
Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story. Faraaz Kazi
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities. Patti Roberts
You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did. Unknown
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean De La Fontaine
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it. Unknown
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale
I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
And they can’t understand, what hurts more — missing the other person, or pretending not to. Khadija Rupa
One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation. Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces. Ella Harper
You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky. Unknown
Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow. Sylvia Plath
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Deep Broken Heart Quotes
Love gave someone the power to break you. I’d been broken beyond repair. Stephanie Meyer, New Moon
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t. Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. Terri Guillemets
Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. Warsan Shire
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. Stelle Atwater
The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. Meredith Taylor, Churning Water
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. Warsan Shire
There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best. Jodi Piccoult, The Book of Two Ways
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. Emily Dickinson, 809
I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again. Atticus
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same. Perry Poetry
I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart. Julia Roberts
She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen. Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as if it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. Meredith Taylor, Churning Water
The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity. Sanober Kahn
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. Alvy Singer, Annie Hall
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart. Becca Fitzpatrick
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned. Unknown
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. Mineko Iwasaki
A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe. Unknown
I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget. Kate Winslet
Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before. Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
It is strange how often a heart must be broken. Before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
I gave you the best of me. Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken. Shakieb Orgunwall
Back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives. Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Because You Deserve Love
Broken Heart Quotes To Help Ease Your Deep Pain
Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus
I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. David Levithan, Every Day
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant
My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I’ve missed him. Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart. Christie Brinkley
I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart.
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine
If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. Brian MacLearn
Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker. Miranda Kenneally
I wish I could hurt you the way you hurt me. But I know that if I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it. Unknown
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most. Jocelyn Murray
My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda
Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other. Kristen Ashley, For You
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
I understand it, but I don’t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers. Amy Plum, If I Should Die
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W. Somerset Maugham
You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you. Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman
The heart is heaviest when it’s empty and lightest when it’s full Helen Scott Taylor, A Clockwork Fairytale
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki
Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus
