Break Up Quotes
Some of the best break-up quotes reflect very painful sentiments. There is nothing that can console a broken heart; only time can lessen the pain and suffering.
No matter what the world says, the wound never heals and keeps reminding you of your past, love, emotions, and all the good and bad you went through.
The pain of losing a true love is something that you carry to your grave. Still, these quotes about breaking up attempt to soothe an aching heart and help you get a sense of reality.
Quotes About Breaking Up
1.) You don’t die from a broken heart – you only wish you did.
Unknown
2.) The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so — or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
Lord Byron
3.) A breakup is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it.
Linda Randall Wisdom
4.) New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Lao Tzu
5.) There is one pain I often feel that you will never know because it is caused by the absence of you.
Unknown
6.) No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
Estelle
7.) Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak, whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
8.) You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
9.) The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Nicholas Sparks
See our examples of how to comfort someone after a breakup with empathy and warmth.
Sad Break Up Quotes
10.) 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
11.) The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
12.) I may have lost someone who didn’t love me, but you lost someone who truly loved you.
Unknown
13.) The sweetest misery is that caused by love.
Alexandria Heather
14.) I don’t hate you, I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.
Unknown
15.) The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.
Genereux Philip
16.) It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone if your heart still does.
Unknown
17.) 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
18.) I had a lot of reasons to give up on you. But I still chose to stay. You had a lot of reasons to stay. But you chose to give up.
Unknown
19.) I don’t know what to do now that we’re apart; I don’t know how to live without the other half of my heart.
Unknown
20.) Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can’t we go back to page one and do it all over again?
Winnie the Pooh
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Moving On Quotations
21.) No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.
Alexandra Elle
22.) In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
23.) But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.
Unknown
24.) In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Mitch Albom
25.) I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.
Fridtjof Nansen
26.) You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.
Unknown
27.) Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
Helen Hollick
28.) You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old whatever the old means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
29.) You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult
30.) I can choose to let it define me, confine me, refine me, outshine me – or I can choose to move on and leave them behind me.
Unknown
31.) Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
32.) Time flies, people change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.
Unknown
Letting Go of the Past
33.) Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.
Ginni Rometty
34.) 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
35.) Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance.
Melody Beattie
36.) Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
37.) If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
Ajahn Chah
38.) Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley
39.) Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
40.) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
Ralph Marston
41.) Pain will leave you when you let go.
Jeremy Aldana
42.) Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.
Jackson Kiddard
43.) We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp, and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
Leo F. Buscaglia
44.) When you let go, you create space for something better.
Unknown
45.) Your past does not equal your future.
Anthony Robbins
Quotes About Getting Over Someone
46.) When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.
Paulo Coelho
47.) Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it’s not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who couldn’t give up on them.
Unknown
48.) If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. And, if it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be.
Unknown
49.) What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. One of life’s lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but kept moving forward.
Roy Bennett
50.) At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.
Unknown
51.) You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it.
Neale Donald Walsch
52.) Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.
Unknown
53.) 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
54.) The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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Closure Quotations
55.) Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
David Deida
56.) I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
Diablo Cody
57.) Sometimes a thing needed opening before the closure was found.
Hugh Howey
58.) Forgiving people isn’t always about giving them another chance. It’s for closure so you can move on.
Unknown
59.) I don’t believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
Allison Anders
60.) Closure means the door is kinda shut; we use it like a temporary swab to dab a bleeding wound that will never heal, only clot.
Will Leamon
61.) Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, and learning to be damaged.
Tim Morrison
62.) For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
Earl A Grollman
Tip: Read a few of these break-up quotes at a time and pause to reflect. Ask yourself, how can you apply the message in each quotation to your own situation?”
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Best Break Up Quotes
63.) Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more.. The memories of you… Or the happy person I used to be.
Ranata Suzuki
64.) I don’t want you back, but I would kill for the feeling of meeting you all over again.
Jessica Katoff
65.) I wish you knew how much it destroyed me when you left.
Unknown
66.) In a separation, it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust
67.) The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
Unknown
68.) Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.
Steve Maraboli
69.) I learned that people leave. Even if they have promised a thousand times that they won’t.
Unknown
70.) That is when time stands still when you watch the one you love, walk away.
Unknown
71.) 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
Sad to See You Go Sayings
72.) It takes a couple of seconds to say hello, but forever to say goodbye.
Unknown
73.) You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone—I already did know what I had, and now that she’s gone, I know even more.
Amy Sarig King
74.) I know my heart will never be the same. But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.
Sara Evans
75.) Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
76.) Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
77.) Now I’m lost in the distance, you look at me like a stranger. ‘Cause how it used to be is buried in the rubble.
Taylor Swift, All Too Well
Break Up Self-Love Quotes
78.) Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else.
Hailee Steinfeld
79.) Say I’ve loved and I’ve lost But that’s not what I see. So, look what I got Look what you taught me.
Ariana Grande
80.)The day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
Turcois Ominek
81.) 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
82.) You gotta love your own company, so you choose people out of love not loneliness.
Karen Salmansohn
Short Break Up Quotes
83.) Don’t be sorry, be fierce.
RuPaul
84.) The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates
85.) Your ex is a reminder that something better is coming.
Unknown
86.) One day, I hope you look back at what we had and regret every single thing you did to let it end.
Unknown
87.) He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.
Christina Yang
88.) 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
89.) Staying single after a breakup is a journey of self-discovery.
Unknown
Funny Break Up Quotes
90.) Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Miss Piggy
91.) I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.
Jared Kintz
92.) It’s these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they’re to blame for all the lies and the heartache, everything.
Tom Hansen, 500 Days of Summer
93.) I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Break Up Quotes for Inspiration
94.) We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
95.) I was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition that I had, this entire year.
Miley Cyrus
96.) The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
97.) Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
Criss Jams
98.) 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
99.) I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
Jennifer Aniston
Inspiring
100.) 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
101.) Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in the middle of the suffocating dust.
Heather Havrilesky
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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