Our sad breakup quotes are ones that everyone can relate to, who has ever had a relationship end.
It can be a stressful and sad time. Please read on.
Ten Best Sad Breakup Quotes
Our expert panel selected these quotations as our favorites.
Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
Nikita Gill
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
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
In order to truly value loyalty, you must first endure the affliction of betrayal.
Thomas Merritt
Hearts live by being wounded.
Oscar Wilde
Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.
Violeta Para
Inspirational Breakup Quotes
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
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is.
Hannah Brown
One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
Turcois Ominek
Let go. 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
I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found.
R.H.Sin
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Michael Bassey Johnson
What is stronger than the human heart, which shatters over and over and still lives.
Rupi Kaur
He’s going to be sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain and remember what an incredible woman you are.
Unknown
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.
Nick Hornby
Funny Breakup Quotes
Sometimes, it helps to have a laugh or two. These sad breakup quotes add some humor to the equations.
I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
Simon Cowell
Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Miss Piggy
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
Marian Keyes
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
Drake
I’m so miserable without you, it’s almost as if you’re here!
Billy Ray Cyrus
There are always a few before-Valentine’s Day breakups that allow people to cancel reservations.
John Imbergamo
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.
Rita Rudner
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass to pay for it all.
Paris Hilton
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.
Rita Rudner
There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn’t stand for that.
Steve Martin
If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face. Seriously punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
Frank Ocean
Sad Breakup Sayings
Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more; The memories of you… Or the happy person I used to be.
Ranata Suzuki
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.
Jonathan Harnisch
I learned that people leave. Even if they have promised a thousand times that they won’t.
Unknown
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation?
Khalil Gibran
How do you love someone and just… Walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?
Ranata Suzuki
You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
John Green
I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.
James Dashner
The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes. Breathing your air… Touching your skin… Saying goodbye. The last time I felt alive – I was dying.
Ranata Suzuki
Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.
Graham Greene
Thoughtful quotes about relationships’ ends
Many good things come to an end eventually. These sad breakup quotes capture that sentiment.
Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Deborah Reber
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
The Wizard of Oz
What is it that makes you cry? It is only your attachments. What is it that you miss when it is lost? It is the object of your attachment. Ponder over this.
Osho
Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.
C. Joybell C.
I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.
Ashley Greene
It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Breakup Quotes for Him
These sad breakup quotes were selected with a male in mind.
Heartbroken? Channel your sorrow to become worthy of love. The world will be yours.
Tapan Ghosh
You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them… but still move on without them.
Mandy Hale
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
Victoria Holt
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Paulo Coelho
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
Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.
Donna Lynn
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Guy Finley
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
Mandy Hale
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Sayings about heartbreak
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
Steve Maraboli
A breakup would imply she was my girlfriend. She was a girl who was my friend who is now a girl who is not my friend.
Sheldon Cooper
If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.
Ranata Suzuki
Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heartbreak at rejection? You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.
Jennifer Salaiz
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.
Demi Lovato
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr
Short Breakup Quotes
Here are our favorite short, sad breakup quotes.
When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.
Paulo Coelho
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates
No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
Faraaz Kazi
The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.
Grant Gudmunson
The course of true love did never run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Reflective Breakup Quotes
If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door.
Jacki Wells Wunderlin
Sharp is the arrow of a broken heart.
Cassandra Clare
I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.
Jared Kintz
We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.
Kate Chisman
Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.
Herman Hesse
And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.
Junot DÃaz
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.
Ranata Suzuki
Let this be the year you choose courage over fear.
Morgan Harper Nichols
Men are a luxury, not a necessity.
Cher
We have to be whole people to find whole love.
Cheryl Strayed
Positive Breakup Quotes
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.
Patti Roberts
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.
Sara Evans
This Is A Good Sign, Having A Broken Heart. It Means We Have Tried For Something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.
Alanis Morrisette
Even on my weakest days, I get a little bit stronger.
Sara Evans
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes on, others do do, and often do do, much, much better.
Jamie Weise
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Inhale the future, exhale the past.
Pain makes you stronger; fear makes you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser.
Someday it’s gonna make sense.
It just hurts… a lot.
Never cry for that person who doesn’t know the value of your tears.
Your time is way too valuable to be wasted on people that can’t accept who you are and who don’t give you the time back you deserve.
Because sometimes you just can’t tell the truth.
I used to hope that you’d bring me flowers. Now I plant my own.
Move On!
Choosing me and my happiness has been the best decision yet.
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By Liz Olson
Liz writes about family, relationships, and pop culture.
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