Brokenhearted Quotes and Sayings
These brokenhearted quotes and sayings will give you much to think about.
Love is the most beautiful thing you can find, but it never comes with guarantees. The same person who means the world to you can leave you shattered, without any words or even the interest to speak to you ever.
Someone who said you meant the world to them could change into a total stranger quickly. Almost everyone has experienced a broken heart. Just like love can be the most beautiful thing, a broken heart can be the most painful thing you could ever experience.
Relationships bring with them a certain level of risk. It is also one of the most difficult pains to heal. If someone breaks your heart, it can be a tough transition to feeling good again.
Here are some famous broken heart quotes and sayings that might help you, or someone you know, understand what it feels like.
Broken Heart Quotes
1.) I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.
Julia Roberts
2.) Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.
Jodi Picoult
3.) I did everything right for someone that does everything wrong.
Unknown
4.) I wish I never fell so deep in love with you, and now it ain’t no way we can be friends.
Trey Songz
5.) 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
6.) A tormented mind wants to forget what a broken heart will always remember.
Anthony Liccione
7.) I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
L.M. Montgomery
Quotes About Broken Hearts
8.) The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.
Becca Fitzpatrick
9.) You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.
Isabel Gillies
10.) My sadness has become a habit. When I’m not sad, I feel lost. I start to panic, trying to find my way back which leads me back to my original state: sadness.
Unknown
11.) For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘it might have been.’
John Greenleaf Whittier
12.) When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.
Dennis Quaid
13.) Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
Alysha Speer
14.) I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.
Jeffrey McDaniel
15.) Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo
16.) The worst feeling is not being lonely. It’s when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you, and you have to pretend you don’t mind at all.
Nishan Panwar
17.) It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker
18.) It’s hard to wait around for something that you know might not happen, but it’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you ever wanted.
Unknown
19.) To meet, to know, to love—and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brokenhearted Quotes and Phrases
20.) In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
21.) Forget what hurt you in the past but never forget what it taught you.
Unknown
22.) A broken heart bleeds tears.
Steve Maraboli
23.) Stab the body, and it heals, but injure the heart, and the wound lasts a lifetime.
Mineko Iwasaki
24.) The actuality that the heart does not want to feel doesn’t negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel.
Itohan Eghide
25.) I wonder if you know what you are doing to me.
Unknown
26.) Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.
Violeta Parra
27.) There’s a difference between letting go and pretending you’ve forgotten.
Unknown
28.) Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Bible Verse
30.) It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
31.) Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice along the very same fault lines.
Jodi Picoult
32.) I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
Christie Brinkley
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Heart Broken Sayings
33.) I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
Missy Altijd
34.)Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.
Cassandra Clare
35.) So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
36.) Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
37.) All I ever wanted was to be your everything.
Unknown
38.) I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.
Steve Maraboli
39.) Throughout my lifetime, I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive.
Johnny Depp
40.) The grief that comes from separation is the price that you pay if you choose to be with someone. Love is a beautiful thing, but not something for the faint-hearted.
Unknown
41.) Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle; love is a war – love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
42.) The toughest part of letting go is realizing that the other person already did.
Unknown
43.) Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.
Nicholas Sparks
Brokenhearted Quotes For Her
44.) It’s so hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
Unknown
45.) A lot of you cared just not enough.
Jay Asher
46.) I love the way you refuse, my love.
Toba Beta
47.) I never hate you for not loving me anymore but I hate myself for still loving you.
Unknown
48.) Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
49.) Love is ironic. Only when you hurt someone, they realize they truly love you. We shall always fall in love with the people who break our hearts.
Unknown
50.) It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
Charlotte Featherstone
51.) Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.
Jonathan Harnisch
52.) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
Unknown
Heart Broken Love Quotes
53.) To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson
54.) You are supposed to dry my tears, not cause them.
Unknown
55.) The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve done everything you can to show someone you love them, and yet they still choose someone else over you.
Bernajoy Vaal
56.) You can love someone so much – But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
John Green
57.) The worst kind of pain is when you smile, only to stop the tears in your eyes.
Unknown
58.) When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, ‘What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?’
Shannon L. Alder
59.) And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
60.) They say that if you love some,ne you should let them go, but they never say what to do when they don’t come back.
Unknown
61.) When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.
Ian McEwan
62.) A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals.
C. Elizabeth
63.) The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
64.) The worst feeling isn’t being lonely; it’s being forgotten by someone you would never forget.
Unknown
Crushed
65.) Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings and , new opportunities.
Patti Roberts
66.) I could have loved you once and said it, But then you went away, And when you came back, Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
Marilyn Monroe
67.) The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.
Unknown
68.) Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. The pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
69.) Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Richard Puz
70.) When you are standing in a forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
Elizabeth Gilbert
71.) The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Carroll Bryant
72.) Sometimes good things fall apa,rt so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
73.) One day, you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you – then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.
Aubrey Drake Graham
Lovesick Quotations
74.) 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
75.) It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore.
George Bernard Shaw
76.) It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
Eric Kripke
77.) Heaven doesn’t ignore the cries of a broken heart.
Toba Beta
78.) You cannot fly with broken wings and you cannot love with a broken heart.
Unknown
79.) Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
Unknown
80.) The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned
William Somerset Maugham
81.) This love game is give and take but you took everything!
Unknown
82.) I don’t think until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
Felicity Kendal
83.) Love is an untamed force… When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
84.) Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
85.) Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.
Cassandra Clare
86.) The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
Unknown
87.) Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Broken Hearted Quotes
88.) No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
Faraaz Kazi
89.) Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
90.) Regret is a form of punishment itself.
Jean de La Fontaine
91.) Sadness flies away on the wings of time.Â
Jean de La FontaineÂ
92.) Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli
93.) So since i’m still here livin’, i guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born.
Langston Hughes
94.) Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Miss Piggy
95.) Our bodies heal without permission, but our hearts need consent. Give it.
Lauren Eden
Best Brokenhearted Quotes
96.) I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time than hold a permanently empty heart forever.
H.C. Pay
97.) The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner
98.) Often what feels like the end of the world is really the rough beginning of a new pathway to a far better place.
Karen Salmonsohn
99.) Some people will leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.
Faraaz Kazi
100.) Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.
Mandy Hale
Good Brokenhearted Quotes
101.) In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
Unknown
102.) Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
Leo Buscaglia
103.) The only way to heal a broken heart is to give yourself time and permission to grieve, and then focus on moving forward.
Unknown
104.) You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don’t want either of them back.
Colleen Hoover
105.) Often what feels like the end of the world is really the rough beginning of a new pathway to a far better place.Â
Karen Salmonsohn
Healing Quotes
106.) Healing comes in waves and maybe today the wave hits the rocks And that’s ok, that’s ok, darling. You are still healing you are still healing.
Ljeoma Umebinyeo
107.) 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
108.) Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreaks make you wiser, so thank the past for a better future.Â
Unknown
109.) With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
Federico Chini
Inspirational Broken Heart
110.) I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and it’s part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.
Heidi Klum
111.) Often, what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.
Karen Salmansohn
112.) I will never regret you or say I wish I’d never met you. Because once upon a time, you were exactly what I needed.
Bob Marley
113.) Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
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 over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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