Break Up Quotes, Sayings, Images

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

You don’t die from a broken heart – you only wish you did.
Unknown

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

A breakup is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it.
Linda Randall Wisdom

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Lao Tzu

There is one pain I often feel that you will never know because it is caused by the absence of you.
Unknown

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
Estelle

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak, whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley

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

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Sad Breakup Quotes

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

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis

I may have lost someone who didn’t love me, but you lost someone who truly loved you.
Unknown

The sweetest misery is that caused by love.
Alexandria Heather

I don’t hate you, I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.
Unknown

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

It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone if your heart still does.
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 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

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

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

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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.
Unknown

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

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.
Fridtjof Nansen

You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.
Unknown

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
Helen Hollick

You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old whatever the old means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult

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

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

Time flies, people change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.
Unknown

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Letting Go of the Past

Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.
Ginni Rometty

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

Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance.
Melody Beattie

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

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

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

Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
Ralph Marston

Pain will leave you when you let go.
Jeremy Aldana

Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.
Jackson Kiddard

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

When you let go, you create space for something better.
Unknown

Your past does not equal your future.
Anthony Robbins

Quotes About Getting Over Someone

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

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

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

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

At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.
Unknown

You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it.
Neale Donald Walsch

Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.
Unknown

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

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt

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Closure Quotations

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
David Deida

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
Diablo Cody

Sometimes a thing needed opening before the closure was found.
Hugh Howey

Forgiving people isn’t always about giving them another chance. It’s for closure so you can move on.
Unknown

I don’t believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
Allison Anders

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

Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, and learning to be damaged.
Tim Morrison

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

Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more.. The memories of you… Or the happy person I used to be.
Ranata Suzuki

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

I wish you knew how much it destroyed me when you left.
Unknown

In a separation, it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
Unknown

Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.
Steve Maraboli

I learned that people leave. Even if they have promised a thousand times that they won’t.
Unknown

That is when time stands still when you watch the one you love, walk away.
Unknown

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

It takes a couple of seconds to say hello, but forever to say goodbye.
Unknown

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

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

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and the editor of Greeting Card Poet.

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