50 Quotes About Breakups to Heal Your Broken Heart

1. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” - Lord Byron

2. “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

3. "This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something." - Elizabeth Gilbert

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

5. "When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death." - Dennis Quaid

6. "Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having." - Sarah Mlynowski

7. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau

8. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” - Bess Myerson

9. "Sometimes loving someone means letting them go, even when your heart breaks into pieces." - Unknown

10. "Not every love story has a happy ending, but every love story has value." - Unknown

11. "Some people come into our lives just to teach us how to let go." - Unknown

12. “Just believe that the heartbreak was a gift in itself. Cry if you have to, but it won't be forever! You will find love again, and it will be even more beautiful! In the meantime enjoy all that YOU are!” - Rihanna

13. "Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” - Jean de La Fontaine

1. “And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.” - Khadija Rupa

2. “You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.” - Leila Sales

3. “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,

4. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin

5. "Better a broken heart than a hardened one." - Dalia Mogahed

6. "There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be." - Pearl S. Buck

7. "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Teresa

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

7. "So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love." - E. A. Bucchianeri

8. "Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop." - Saint Augustine

9. "Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again." - Rosa Parks

10. "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran

11. "Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion." - Javan

12. “The heart was made to be broken.” - Oscar Wilde

13. “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

14. “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

15. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” - Ranata Suzuki

16. "The hardest part of goodbye is not knowing if you will ever say hello again." - Unknown

17. "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

1. "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

2. "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse

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

4. "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were." - Richard Bach

5. "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together." - Marilyn Monroe

6. "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - E. M. Forster

7. "Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go." - Lenny Santos

8. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein

9. “Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” - Daphne Rose Kingma

10. “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” - Jan Glidewell

11. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” - Lord Byron

12. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” - Faraaz Kazi

13. "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Gautama Buddha

14. “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

15. “Don't worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new storyline falls from the sky and lands right in your lap.” - Rebekah Crane

16. “You get through it. It's a process that's not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.” - Ryan Phillippe

17. “Moving on is not forgetting — moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.” - Sam Madison

18. "No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief." - Faraaz Kazi

19. "Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs." - Jim Henson

20. “You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” - Michael McMillian