143 Heartbreak quotes

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Quotes on Moving Forward

  • There’s something powerful about finding the right words when your heart is breaking. It is during someone’s darkest moments when collecting quotes that speak directly to their soul. They became little lifelines and reminders that others had walked this path before me and somehow found their way forward.
  • “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “Every time your heart is broken a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings and new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
  • “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
  • “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
  • “Healing is an art. It takes time. It takes practice. It takes love.” – Pavana
  • “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
  • “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
  • “Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Unknown
  • “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
  • “The cure for a broken heart is simple my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
  • “It’s hard to turn the page when you know someone won’t be in the next chapter but the story must go on.” – Thomas Wilder
  • “Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.” – Anonymous
  • “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
  • “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
  • “Life moves on and so should we.” – Spencer Johnson
  • “Every day is a new day. You’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
  • “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” – Jojo Moyes
  • “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
  • “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Focus on what to do next.” – Denis Waitley
  • “Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Anonymous
  • “It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.” – Unknown
  • “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
  • “Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” – Kristin Kreuk
  • “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
  • “The only way out is through.” – Robert Frost
  • “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

Quotes on Self-Discovery After Heartbreak

  • “I think you still love me but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry either. I should be… but I’m not. I just feel pain.” – Haruki Murakami
  • “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sara Teasdale
  • “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
  • “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
  • “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
  • “You can’t buy love but you can pay heavily for it.” – Henny Youngman
  • “The heart will break but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
  • “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me. A lonely you.” – Richard Wilbur
  • “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated – it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
  • “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates

Quotes on Finding Strength

  • “You may have a broken heart but you may have the strength to save yourself.” – Patti Roberts
  • “When we are in love we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes others do and often do much much better.” – Coco J. Ginger
  • “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
  • “The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.” – W. Somerset Maugham
  • “Love is the hardest drug to quit but it is even harder when it is taken away.” – Ashleyy
  • “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
  • “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time than hold a permanently empty heart forever
  • “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
  • “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers
  • “You may have a broken heart but you aren’t broken as a person. The crack is there to let the light in.” – Unknown
  • “The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.” – Robert James Waller

Quotes on Healing

  • “Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
  • “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Anonymous
  • “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” – Akshay Dubey
  • “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain. you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
  • “Healing is an art. It takes time. It takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta
  • “Healing takes courage. And we all have courage even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos
  • “The best way to heal a broken heart is to find a way to move past the hurt.” – Mary Kay Andrews
  • “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
  • “Scars are not injuries. A scar is a healing. After the injury a scar is what makes you whole.” – China Miéville
  • “Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds. This shatters the flattering image that we had of ourselves to discover what is truly within us.” – Jean Vanier

Quotes on Self-Love

  • “You as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.” – Buddha
  • “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams
  • “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
  • “Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.” – Anonymous
  • “Be yourself. An original is so much better than a copy.” – Anonymous
  • “Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
  • “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
  • “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou

Quotes on Acceptance

  • “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum
  • “Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and learning to live with that loss.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
  • “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love.” – Earl Grollman
  • “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
  • “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono
  • “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain. You need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
  • “Letting go means to realize that some people are a part of your history but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
  • “Acceptance is the key to being truly free.” – Katy Perry
  • “The first step toward change is acceptance.” – Unknown
  • “Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.” – Michael J. Fox
  • “Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
  • “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “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
  • “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” – William James
  • “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” – Roy T. Bennett
  • “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say ‘So what.’ That’s one of my favorite phrases.” – Andy Warhol
  • “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “Acceptance doesn’t mean that you’ve given up. It means you’ve made peace with the hand that life has dealt you.” – Unknown
  • “The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is – you are free of the mind.” – Eckhart Tolle
  • “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
  • “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins
  • “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
  • “The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your attention.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
  • “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George

Quotes on Self-Reflection

  • “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
  • “A broken heart bleeds tears.”
  • “Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a death of a relationship.” – Francesca Annis

Quotes on Healing and Moving Forward

  • “You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often then all the better.” – Isabel Gillies
  • “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.” – Anonymous

Quotes on Strength and Resilience

  • “You may have a broken heart but you may have the opportunity to have a new start.” – Anonymous
  • “It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke
  • “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
  • “I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” – Christie Brinkley
  • “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” – Laura Kasischke
  • “When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut… it will heal, but there will always be a scar.” – Anonymous
  • “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love but what broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.” – Pearl S. Buck
  • “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” – Anonymous

Quotes on Resilience

  • There’s something uniquely comforting about finding the perfect words that capture how you feel when your heart is breaking.
  • “We are all broken – that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway
  • “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton J. Sheen
  • “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
  • “The heart will break but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
  • “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
  • “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
  • “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Resilience is accepting your new reality even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards
  • “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult
  • “You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

Quotes on Letting Go

  • There’s something uniquely comforting about finding the perfect quote that captures what your broken heart is feeling. These quotes are some companions that’ll remind you that others had walked this path before and somehow found their way forward.
  • “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye then life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
  • “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation unless you realize that the situation is over. You cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli
  • “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – C. JoyBell C.
  • “Letting go doesn’t mean you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
  • “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox.” – Tony Schwartz
  • “Cry. Forgive. Learn.
  • Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
  • “The day I understood everything was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” – C. JoyBell C.

Quotes on Healing After Heartbreak

  • “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
  • “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
  • “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
  • “The cure for a broken heart is simple my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
  • “It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.” – Unknown
  • “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
  • “Every time your heart is broken a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings and new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
  • “Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Unknown
  • “The heart will break but broken live on.” – Lord Byron

Quotes on Finding Strength

  • “You may have a broken heart but you aren’t broken as a person. The crack is there to let the light in.” – Unknown
  • “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
  • “The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.” – Robert James Waller
  • “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
  • “When we are in love we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes others do and often do much much better.” – Coco J. Ginger