If you’re seeking comfort, motivation, or a fresh perspective on love and loss, our curate selection of breakup quotes are sure to resonate with you.
Breakups can be one of the most challenging experiences we go through in life. Whether it’s the end of a long–term relationship or a short–lived romance, the pain and heartache can be overwhelming.
During this tough time, many people turn to breakup quotes as a source of comfort, inspiration, and motivation. These quotes offer poignant and relatable words of wisdom from writers, artists, and thinkers throughout history, or daily people who share their experiences.
They are sure can helping us to gain a new perspective on our experiences and find the strength to move forward. So, let’s explore the power of breakup quotes and how they can help us navigate the journey of love and loss.
Sad breakup quotes
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.
Lauren Conrad
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Soren Kierkegaard
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I may not be perfect, but I’m always me.
Selena Gomez
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Walter Anderson
Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.
Steve Maraboli
When you are heartbroken it can be exhausting feeling so sad. You are either crying, trying not to cry or drained from all the crying yesterday.
Ziella Bryars
Relationship breakup quotes
Check out our breakup quotes to find solace and inner strength during hard times.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Natalie Imbruglia
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin
Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
Anne Hathaway
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Oprah Winfrey
It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina Jolie
Funny breakup quotes
Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.
Harriet Evans
It’s over. Please get out of my Van Halen T–shirt before you jinx the band and they break up.
Robbie Hart
One day they will realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
Turcois Ominek
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
Steve Martin
Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Miss Piggy
Goodbye breakup quotes
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Boy George
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
Charlotte Bronte
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Richard Bach
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust
Thank God, I found the good in goodbye.
Beyoncé
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
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
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
Judith Guest
Friendship breakup quotes
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
Charles Caleb Colton
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells
It ain’t no need to cry, I took a vow that from now on, I’m gon’ be my own best friend.
Beyoncé
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
Suzanne Finnamore
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil
What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Henry David Thoreau
Positive breakup quotes
Our ten breakup quotes offer guidance during this difficult time adn cultivate a positive outlook for better future.
Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?
Donna Lynn Hope
You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
Nikita Gill
I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.
Alex Elle
One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
Turcois Ominek
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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 person comes along.
Nicholas Sparks
Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.
Drake
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
Paulo Coelho
Attitude breakup quotes
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
Elizabeth Gilbert
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
Malcolm X
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in–between state. It’s the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.
Pema Chodron
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
Sylvia Plath
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
Bad things happen, but you have to move past it. Leave it behind. The sooner, the better. Or it’ll eat away at you and stop you from moving forward.
Miranda Bailey
I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet–to–come surprises.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Quotes after breakup
Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.
G. I. Gurdjieff
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
Gayle Forman
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
You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.
Roy T. Bennett
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
Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.
Frank Ocean
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 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no 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
Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
John Major
You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult
Inspirational breakup quotes
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E. A. Bucchianeri
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Torquato Tasso
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted – atrocious.
Marcel Proust
If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
Yasmin Mogahed
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
J. G. Holland
Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
John Green
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart’s destiny: Whoever breaks another’s heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.
Yunus Emre
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Leo Buscaglia
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
Leo Tolstoy
Getting over a breakup quotes
Turn to our selection of breakup quotes to find the inspiration you need to move on and find happiness.
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
Jean Plaidy
Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.
David Clement–Davies
Perhaps some day 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
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
Drake
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I do not care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’
Joel Osteen
When someone leaves, it is because someone else is about to arrive.
Paulo Coelho
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Never love anybody that treats you like you are ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
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
Final thoughts
Breakup quotes can offer solace, guidance, and inspiration during one of life’s most challenging experiences. They also can help you to find courage to move on, and discover new paths to happiness and fulfillment.
By embracing the insight of these quotes, you can heal faster, gain clarity and perspective, and cultivate a renewed sense of hope and optimism for the future. If you need some inspiration, turn to the power of breakup quotes and discover the comfort and guidance they can offer on your journey of love life.
We hope that you have enjoyed exploring our breakup quotes and have found some words of wisdom that resonate with you. Feel free to share them with others who may be going through a difficult time. By sharing, you may provide other some comfort and hope to embrace their new beginnings.
At the end, while breakups can be painful and difficult experiences, they can also be opportunities for self–growth and self–discovery. By focusing on self–care, cultivate patience, self–love, and a positive attitude, you can emerge from a breakup stronger and more resilient than ever before.
Surround yourself with loved ones, engage in activities that bring you joy, and reflect on the lessons you’ve learned. By doing so, you’ll be better equipped to move forward with confidence and optimism. Embrace the opportunities that lie ahead and trust that the future holds great promise for you.