When a love ends, the world seems to collapse at our feet and a deep sadness in the heartis added to the indelible memory for the loved one. Pain, however, also knows how to be a reason for growth and must therefore be lived and not kept within oneself: crying and expressing one’s feelings can in fact help us feel better and get out of this condition more easily.
Below you can find the most beautiful phrases dedicated to the end of a love: from the most poetic, romantic and poignant quotes to encouraging aphorisms up to verses from famous songs and ironic and funny thoughts to live this condition with a pinch of lightness and a good dose of self-irony.
Detachment, abandonment, loss, separation, breakup, end, goodbye. The terms are many, the nuances that differentiate them are subtle axes. However, the common denominator is always the end of a love story. It’s not that easy to get over a breakup. It’s often easier said than done. Fortunately, it’s not impossible, it just takes time and patience. A few tears, nostalgic thoughts and evenings with friends later, we get over it.
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Broken Heart Quotes
When we love someone we always run the risk of suffering and having our heart broken, it’s part of the game. If you are not particularly lucky everyone happens to find someone who takes our heart and tears it up, but we have to accept it and try to go our own way. So here is a series of the most beautiful phrases on the broken and wounded heart written and thought by great people who have been able to put into words this strong emotion that is felt when someone does not reciprocate our love. Discover them now!
💔You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
💔Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. Warsan Shire
💔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
💔The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart. Unknown
💔You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did. Unknown
💔What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same. Perry Poetry
💔I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. David Levithan, Every Day
💔My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I’ve missed him. Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
💔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, Hearts in Atlantis
💔Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is. Unknown
💔You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you. Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes
💔She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen. Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
💔I wish I could hurt you the way you hurt me. But I know that if I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it. Unknown
💔If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. Brian MacLearn
💔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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
💔Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
💔The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken. Shakieb Orgunwall
💔It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most. Jocelyn Murray
💔You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky. Unknown
💔Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives. Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Because You Deserve Love
💔I gave you the best of me. Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
💔I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
💔I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore. Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
💔A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe. Unknown
💔I understand it, but I don’t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers. Amy Plum, If I Should Die
💔When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
💔I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. Michael Faudet
💔Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
💔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
💔The heart is heaviest when it’s empty and lightest when it’s full. Helen Scott Taylor, A Clockwork Fairytale
💔I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces. Unknown
💔My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. Meredith Taylor, Churning Water
💔I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again. Atticus
💔The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart. Becca Fitzpatrick
💔Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned. Unknown
💔Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus
💔Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
💔I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. Terri Guillemets
💔Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over. Maggi Richard
💔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
💔To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
💔Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before. Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
💔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, November 9
💔You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. Stelle Atwater
💔Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other. Kristen Ashley, For You
💔The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it. Unknown
💔One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation. Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
💔Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak. Alessandra Torre
💔The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity. Sanober Kahn
Motivational Quotes About Grief
The pains of love are never easy to deal with, a wounded heart takes time to heal. Whether it’s a rejection or the end of a long or fleeting love story, our hearts can sometimes break more easily than we think. Love is a beautiful feeling, but it is also intense, so it can make us both joy and suffer. In love there are no manuals, but to heal a broken heart, it is said that the best medicine is time for forgetting and aspiring for a new healthy relationship. Time to forget the pain and get stronger. Because the person who deserves our smile may be just around the corner, and we need to be ready.
😢There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best. Jodi Piccoult, The Book of Two Ways
😢The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
😢You’re going to wake up one day and realize what you’ve done, and you’re going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life. Jamie McGuire, Providence
😢So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
😢Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream. Euripides, Herakles
😢My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda
😢I will never regret loving you, only believing you loved me too. Unknown
😢Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch. Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
😢And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
😢One day you’ll finally see, your biggest mistake was not loving me. Nishan Panwar
😢No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. Faraaz Kazi
😢Everything is gone except traces of you inside me—and the years like the wind are sweeping those away. John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
😢Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret. Laura Kasischke, The Raising
😢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
😢Wanting her is hard to forget, loving her is hard to regret, losing her is hard to accept, but letting go is the most painful. Unknown
😢Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill. Jojo Moyes, After You
😢When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. Unknown
😢When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe For Healing After Loss
😢The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant
😢The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. Rob Liano
😢Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. Emily Dickinson
Broken Heart Quotes About Moving On
If this has happened to you at least once in your life, you know very well that there are few traumas and wounds that hurt more than a broken heart. When the heart breaks, it is not the body that hurts, but something deeper: the soul. Unlike physical pain, in this case there are no medicines that can relieve it, the fact that you didn’t saw the signs that the man you loved didn’t loved you anymore, patches that can contain the blood of disappointment, or bands that help heal. There is no visit from friends and relatives that is worthwhile to console and fill that void and frustration from which we fear we will not be able to get out. The heart breaks when we feel that we have been ready to give all our love to someone who then gave it so little value that we feel entitled to tear it, as if it were waste paper.
😭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
😭Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. Marc & Angel
😭I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore. Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
😭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
😭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, November 9
😭My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. Meredith Taylor, Churning Water
😭Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
😭Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other. Kristen Ashley, For You
😭The heart is heaviest when it’s empty and lightest when it’s full. Helen Scott Taylor, A Clockwork Fairytale
😭Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill. Jojo Moyes, After You
😭No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. Faraaz Kazi
😭Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. Emily Dickinson
😭Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch. Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
😭Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret. Laura Kasischke, The Raising
😭So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
😭Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities. Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here
😭Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs. Rita Stradling, Making Bad Choices
😭Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
😭When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
😭It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
😭The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. William Faulkner, Soldier’s Pay
😭It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most. Jocelyn Murray
😭The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
😭One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation. Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
😭I gave you the best of me. Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
😭The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken. Shakieb Orgunwall
😭And it only hurts when I’m breathing. My heart only breaks when it’s beating. My dreams only die when I’m dreaming. So, I hold my breath—to forget. Shania Twain, “Up!”
😭A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one. Unknown
😭I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
😭There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best. Jodi Piccoult, The Book of Two Ways
😭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
😭Each night I put my head to my pillow I try to tell myself I’m strong because I’ve gone one more day without you. Unknown
😭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, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
😭The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it. Unknown
😭Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is. Unknown
😭I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces. Unknown
😭You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky. Unknown
😭I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. David Levithan, Every Day
😭If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. Brian MacLearn
😭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
😭Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
😭You didn’t break my heart; you freed it. Steve Maraboli
😭Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before. Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
😭You’re going to wake up one day and realize what you’ve done, and you’re going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life. Jamie McGuire, Providence
😭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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
😭The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity. Sanober Kahn
😭Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over. Maggi Richard
😭I understand it, but I don’t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers. Amy Plum, If I Should Die
😭The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant
😭He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world. Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
😭Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
😭Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite—it means you feel it all more. Julie Johnson, Erasing Faith
😭When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe For Healing After Loss
😭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
😭Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned. Unknown
😭The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart. Unknown
😭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, Hearts in Atlantis
😭The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces. Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
😭You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him. Leila Sales, Past Perfect
😭You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did. Unknown
😭The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. Rob Liano
😭This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice. James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany’s
😭Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak. Alessandra Torre
😭A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her. Marilyn Monroe
😭I love you, but I hate you. I miss you, but I’m better off without you. I want you out of my life, but I never want to let you go. Minhal Mehdi
😭I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. Michael Faudet
😭I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again. Atticus
😭What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same. Perry Poetry
😭My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda
😭And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
😭One day you’ll finally see, your biggest mistake was not loving me. Nishan Panwar
😭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
😭To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
😭Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream. Euripides, Herakles
😭The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
😭Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus
😭I will never regret loving you, only believing you loved me too. Unknown
😭You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. Stelle Atwater
😭I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. Terri Guillemets
😭Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. Warsan Shire
😭She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen. Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
😭Wanting her is hard to forget, loving her is hard to regret, losing her is hard to accept, but letting go is the most painful. Unknown
😭She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
😭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
😭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
😭A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe. Unknown
😭You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
😭Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives. Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Because You Deserve Love
😭My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I’ve missed him. Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
😭When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. Unknown
😭The heart will break, but broken live on. Lord Byron
😭I wish I could hurt you the way you hurt me. But I know that if I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it. Unknown
😭Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse
😭Everything is gone except traces of you inside me—and the years like the wind are sweeping those away. John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
😭You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you. Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes
😭If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go. Unknown
😭I know my heart will never be the same, but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay. Sara Evans, “A Little Bit Stronger”
😭The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart. Becca Fitzpatrick
😭So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before. Arianapoetess
Sad Quotes About Broken Hearts
Are you living in this situation and are you looking for aphorisms that help you understand your condition better? We have collected in this article the most beautiful phrases about the broken heart. After reading them, read on: a broken heart can heal and we will try our best to help you!
😥The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant
😥It turns out freedom ain’t nothin’ but missin’ you. Wishin’ I’d realized what I had when you were mine. Taylor Swift, “Back to December”
😥Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus
😥Since you’ve gone I’ve been lost without a trace. I dream at night, I can only see your face. The Police, “Every Breath You Take”
😥Ever since I met you my life’s been a song. A sad song, a love song with hate in between. Willie and Lukas Nelson, “Sound of Your Memory”
😥Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
😥Tell me the truth boy, am I losing you for good? We used to kiss all night, but now there’s just no use. Solange, “Losing You”
😥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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
😥The scars of your love remind me of us. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all. Adele, “Rolling in the Deep”
😥Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. Warsan Shire
😥Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead. Adele, “Someone Like You”
😥Why’d you have to say goodbye? Look what you’ve done to me. I can’t stop these tears from fallin’ from my eyes. Mary J. Blige, “I’m Goin’ Down”
😥Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. Mineko Iwasaki
😥When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
😥Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker. Miranda Kenneally
😥In another life I would make you stay, so I don’t have to say you were the one that got away. Katy Perry, “The One That Got Away”
😥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, Forbidden
😥Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine
😥You were red and you liked me cause I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn’t for you. Halsey, “Colors”
😥Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman
😥I scratched out your name and your face. What is it about you that I can’t erase, baby? Well every promise don’t work out that way. Beyonce, “Sandcastles”
😥There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best. Jodi Piccoult, The Book of Two Ways
😥So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
😥What about us? What about all the broken happy ever afters? Pink, “What about us?”
😥We only said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times. You go back to her, and I go back to black. Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black”
😥All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me. Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball”
😥You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
😥But if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you though. I remember everyone that leaves. Lilo, Lilo & Stitch
😥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, Hearts in Atlantis
😥I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart. Christie Brinkley
😥My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda
😥The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
😥It is strange how often a heart must be broken. Before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale, The Collected P poems
😥Oh you broke my heart. I told you I was weak for love, but then you went around, and did what you wanted to do, and now I’m crying. Miley Cyrus, “FU”
😥To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
😥Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
😥The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W. Somerset Maugham
😥My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as if it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. Meredith Taylor, Churning Water
😥Loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars. Lauryn Hill, “Ex-Factor”
😥I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart. Britney Spears
😥Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. Emily Dickinson, 809
😥I thought that I’d been been hurt before but no one’s ever left me quite this sore. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to breathe me back to life. Shawn Mendes, “Stitches”
😥I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart. Julia Roberts
😥My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
😥A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. Alvy Singer, Annie Hall
😥These wounds won’t seem to heal, this pain is just too real. Evanescence, “My Immortal”
😥The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates
😥Back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
😥There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki
😥I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget. Kate Winslet
Wise and insightful heartbreak quotes
A broken heart is an experience we all share, but we only have it alone. As humans, we are wired to experience incredible love and affection. But for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and when it comes to the ecstasy of true love, that reaction is heart-wrenching pain, a deep void of sadness, total lethargy, and feelings of seemingly eternal loneliness. How do you mend a broken heart? How do you find comfort when all you feel is pain? Here are some heartbreaking quotes that offer insight and a starting point for overcoming pain and healing.
🖤Our hearts will be broken a thousand times over, but who is to say that our hearts were ever perfect to begin with? Maybe they can withstand a few cracks. After all, the way that we love is not perfect. We love things to such an incomprehensible depth that these things become worn in. Wouldn’t the most beautiful thing in the world be a heart that has been through all of the wear and tear, as worn in as your favorite sweater that both keeps you warm and grants you a smile in return? That’s the kind of heart that I want. Bruises make for beautiful colors after all. Elizabeth Brooks
🖤You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
🖤The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep. Margaret George
🖤There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be. Pearl Buck
🖤What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. Richard Wilbur
🖤Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
🖤Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. Victoria Holt
🖤She broke her own heart, holding onto him. R.H. Sin
🖤I often say, my last relationship failed and didn’t paralyze me. My last heartache didn’t kill me. Why would this one? I will not break. Sujeiry Gonzalez
🖤I know what it’s like to have a broken heart. I know what it’s like to feel pain: When my songs don’t become hits, it breaks m
my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.
🖤Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak. Alessandra Torre
🖤He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me. Shannon A. Thompson
🖤Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret. Laura Kasischke
🖤When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
🖤Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing. Anais Nin
🖤Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It’s like playing with fire; you know you’ll get burnt but you are still
captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heat. Aishabella Sheikh
🖤The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. Charles Dickens
🖤In life we don’t always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started. Rebecah McManus
🖤Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. Herman Hesse
🖤I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, ‘I have wonderful news!’ And I was like, ‘I don’t really want to hear wonderful news right now,’ and Gus said, ‘This is wonderful news you want to hear,’ and I asked him, ‘Fine, what is it?’ and he said, ‘You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!’ John Green
🖤Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with an intensity and a passion I had never experienced before. And to their credit they were right; It all came and went so fast it really did feel as if it were just ‘one day.’ Ranata Suzuki
🖤Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t. Stephen King
🖤God is closest to those with broken hearts. Jewish Proverb
🖤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
🖤Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That’s just the way it goes.
🖤No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief. Faraaz Kazi
🖤The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. Max Lerner
🖤I’ve been on the floor and I’ve been heartbroken. I didn’t know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time. Sandra Bullock
🖤The heart is the only broken instrument that works. T.E. Kalem
🖤When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the ’10 second heartbreak.’ That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember. Nina Guilbeau
🖤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 Hope
🖤Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken. Jeffery Eugenides
🖤A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying ‘Long time no see.’ Phyllis Batelle
🖤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
🖤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
🖤I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart. Christie Brinkley
🖤A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying ‘Long time no see’. Phyllis Batelle
🖤Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal. Laura Fitzgerald
🖤Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. Drake
🖤I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. Terri Guillemets
🖤It’s funny how artistic we become when our hearts are broken. Hotel Books
🖤Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson. Jon Voight
🖤I have not broken your heart… you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
🖤Long time I have been on my own, but now really I’m alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart. Patricia McCormick
🖤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
🖤Never love with all your heart, it only ends in aching.
Countee Cullen
🖤When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth. Sienna Miller
🖤Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
🖤Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Jim Henson
🖤When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realize it’s about making the most of life. Britney Spears
🖤To meet, to know, to love—and then to part, Is the sad tale of many a heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
🖤He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world. Jennifer Weiner
🖤It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart. There is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever. Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
🖤Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest, and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…. You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness. So simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. Neil Gaiman
🖤Hearts live by being wounded. Oscar Wilde
🖤If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. Andrew Harvey
🖤Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. Louise Erdrich
🖤If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart? Damon Suede
🖤This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice. James Patterson
🖤Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything. Matshona Dhliwayo
🖤Don’t tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you’ll see that it’s better. Orebela Gibenga
🖤This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. Elizabeth Gilbert
🖤How frail the human heart must be—a mirrored pool of thought. So deep and tremulous an instrument of glass that it can either sing, or weep. Sylvia Plath
🖤Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching. Juliet Marillier
🖤If you are heartbroken and can’t face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won’t be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters. Isabel Gillies
🖤For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. D.H. Lawrence
🖤But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb. Elizabeth Wein
🖤I know that’s what people say – you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, you’ll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him. Betty Smith
🖤My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn’t that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? Elizabeth Gilbert
🖤If you haven’t broken any heart yet, you never loved. M.F. Moonzajer
🖤I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, the flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet it burns so quietly within my soul, no longer should you feel distressed by it. Alexander Pushkin
🖤The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces. Robert James Waller
🖤Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. Mineko Iwasaki
🖤Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart. William C. Hannan
🖤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. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw
🖤Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else’s brokenness. Munia Khan
🖤The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant
🖤There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream—whatever that dream might be. Pearl Buck
🖤Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner
🖤I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as I lived. Margaret Mitchell
🖤This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.” ― Wendy Wunder
🖤Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you’ve made. Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
