Touching Heartbreak Quotes
Have you had your heart broken?
Our collection of heartbreak quotes may help ease your sadness and pain. We pulled from various sources to address this subject from many angles.
We hope you find the collection worthwhile.
Best Heartbreak Quotes
1.) Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli
2.) When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut — it will heal, but there will always be a scar.
Soo Jie
3.) I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time than hold a permanently empty heart forever.
H.C. Paye
4.) Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
5.) You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
6.) Stab the body, and it heals but injures the heart, and the wound lasts a lifetime.
Mineko Iwasaki
7.) Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation?
Kahlil Gibran
8.) And they can’t understand what hurts more—missing the other person or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
9.) Letting go means coming to the realization that some people are a part of your history but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
10.) There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.
Pearl S. Buck
Touching Quotes for A Broken Heart
You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It’s just a matter of willpower: The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.
Junot Díaz
Crying is how your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.
Unknown
You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them.
John Cena
Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
Jeffery Eugenides
I took a chance; I took a shot. And you may think I’m bulletproof, but I’m not. You took a swing; I took it hard. And down here from the ground, I see who you are.
Taylor Swift
Perhaps someday 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
Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart because they only have one. Break their bones; they have 206 of those!
Jayy Von Monroe
Lovers in love and the others run away. The lover is crying ’cause the other won’t stay.’
Lisa Loeb
Short Heartbreak Quotes
The pleasure of love lasts but a moment. The pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.
Audrey Niffenegger
Hearts live by being wounded.
Oscar Wilde
Oh, I wouldn’t mind. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
John Green
Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.
Alessandra Torre
Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Carroll Bryant
Unable are the loved ones to die. For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
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I gave you my heart; I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.
Unknown
The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.
Audrey Niffenegger
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
H. L. Mencken
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Caroll Bryant
I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.
Marguerite Duras
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
H. L. Mencken
Inspirational Quotes for A Heartbreak
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
With time the pain eases, the body recovers, and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
Federico Chini
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Motivational Heartbreak Quotes
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
Unknown
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Nicholas Sparks
I know my heart will never be the same. But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.
Sara Evans
Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you; feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
Frank Ocean
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Famous Heartbreak Quotations
Love, it never dies. It never goes away; it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.
Gayle Forman
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.
Ella Harper
Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.
Faraaz Kazi
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
Rob Liano
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
Faraaz Kazi
The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.
Shakieb Orgunwall
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
Wise Words for A Broken Heart
In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
Unknown
Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.
Unknown
When we miss someone often, what we really miss is the part of us that, with this, someone awakens.
Luigina Sgarro
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
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.
Lisa Kleypas
Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.
Rita Stradling
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes on, others do. And often do much, much better.
Coco J. Ginger
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.
Denis Waitley
Love Yourself Quotes
You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself.
Amanda Lovelace
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.
Brené Brown
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard
You are enough. A thousand times enough.
Unknown
How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.
Rupi Kaur
Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.
Hailee Steinfeld
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.
Rupi Kaur
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.
Edmond Mbiaka
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky
Quotes to Learn From
To make real friends, you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can’t let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.
Kristin Hannah
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D.H. Lawrence
The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner
A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.
Unknown
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.
Mandy Hale
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
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle Forman
Quotes to Help Get Over Heartbreak
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
Faraaz Kazi
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
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you – then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go.
Aubrey Drake Graham
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
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings and new opportunities.
Patti Roberts
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning, and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
Elizabeth Gilbert
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
Sad Heartbreak Quotes
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
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
L. Frank Baum
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
You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you miss them.
John Green
Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.
Cassandra Clare
So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.
Morgan Rhodes
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you?
Tabitha Suzuma
By MJ O’Halloran
MJ writes about relationships, family, and culture.
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