Wise words for a broken heart

In this post, we share some sad broken heart quotes, quotation about heartbreak with pictures and how to move on after a break-up. These sad love quotes & advice might help you letting go that broken relationship!

Inspirational Quotes about Broken Heart

It’s hard to forget someone who you’ve imagined spending forever with.

The heart was made to be broken. – Oscar Wilde

When you care for someone more than they deserve, you get hurt more than you deserve.

Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you. Feel sad for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it… – Nicholas Sparks

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

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. – Mark Twain

You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. — Nina Simone

EX means: Thanks for the EXperience. Our time has EXpired. Now EXit my life!

You can not easily drop a person out of your mind. Especially when that person left a special mark on your heart.

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 used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.

I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, stabbed, cheated, burned, and broken…but somehow still works.

I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart. – Julia Roberts

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t anymore.

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.

Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.

Sometimes, the best way to get a person’s attention is to stop giving them yours.

If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost.

Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.

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

Sometimes giving someone a second chance is like giving them another bullet for their gun because they missed you the first time.

Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away, with your head held high is dignity.

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“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, The Fault in Our Stars

“I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.”
― Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted

“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

“As Qhuinn looked at his best friend's handsome face, he felt as if he'd never not known that red hair, those blue eyes, those lips, that jaw. And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was . . . I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

“I wore your promise on my finger for one year
I'll wear your name on my heart til I die
Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”
― Alysha Speer

“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.
Some people might find that strange.
But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Your memory feels like home to me.
So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.”
― Denice Envall

“She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.”
― Ann Brashares

“A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

“In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast hath all
Those pieces still, though they be not unite;
And now, as broken glasses show
A hundred lesser faces, so
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more.”
― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“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

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

— Mark Twain

“My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”

— Pablo Neruda

“And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom.”

— Anaïs Nin

“I don’t understand,
Why do I stress the man,
When there’s so many bigger things at hand?”

— Amy Winehouse

“As painful as this thing has been
I just can’t be with no one else.
See I know what we’ve got to do.
You let go, and I’ll let go too.
‘Cause no one’s hurt me more than you
And no one ever will.”

— Lauryn Hill

“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does God. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.”

— Andrea Gibson

“Do not listen to people who think they have all the answers. Nobody is your savior, except you and perhaps a God you do or do not pray to. Read things that make you feel, that challenge what you think you know. Get fired up. Push yourself beyond those ten feet in front of you. Let yourself be pissed the fuck off. Maybe if you get angry enough, you’ll change your damn life. Maybe if you let yourself be consumed by envy or anger or frustration or disappointment, you will finally do what it takes to make yourself happy.”

— Jamie Varon

“We draw maps of each other’s pasts. Heartbreaks colored in black. Grief outlined in purple. The happiest times shaded yellow. This is how we learn each other. We are so scared and brave. We are so terrified and willing. We rewrite the definition of brave and it is this: love again. love again. love again.”

— Fortesa Latifi

“A wounded deer leaps highest.”

— Emily Dickinson

“I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

“I suffer, suffer from a habit, yes I’m an addict.
But someone else is out there, it’s just simple mathematics.
There’s over 7 billion mothafuckas on the planet and 4 billion of us are of legal age.”

— Watsky

“A soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest, but the one who makes you feel the most.”

— Sierra DeMulder

“Love will come to you when it’s ready,
Not necessarily when you are.”

— Danielle Shorr

“Maybe that’s just how he looks at girls in cars. Looks like they need saving, doesn’t see she’s her own Superhero. Her kryptonite, not his hands. The Galaxy behind his glasses. The promises that fall silent when the sun rises and the sheets are made. She only falls when she forgets her power, that she is the moon and stars and everything he wishes upon. She thinks, maybe that’s just how he looks at girls in cars. Doesn’t even see she’s the one driving.”

— Ari Eastman

“I do my thing and you do your thing. You are you and I am I. And if the end we end up together, it’s beautiful.”

— Boy Meets World

“I am the kind of woman who will never, ever apologise for being herself.”

— Laura Jane Williams

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

“What happens when people open their hearts?
They get better.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Never forget, you have value. You are worth time, worth energy, worth worship. Your delicate enchantments are a holy wine. Silver aura of my moon. Song of my air. My afternoon shadows. My divine messenger. The literature of stars is in your very pores.”

— Benedict Smith

“You left
and the world didn’t crumble.
I owe the universe a dollar.”

— Rudy Francisco

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

“It hurts like hell. And then one day, it doesn’t.”

— My mother

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These quotes just get it.

Breaking up with someone you love is never easy. Letting go of the one you love — especially after weeks, months or even years of accumulating treasured memories — can feel like tearing yourself in two.

But the positive side of breakups is that learning how to move on also gives you an opportunity to learn about yourself as you heal your broken heart.

Taking a hiatus from love affords us the chance to get reacquainted with ourselves and helps us come to realize that we are not alone out there in our heartbreak.

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People have suffered from broken hearts since pretty much the beginning of time.

And whether you're ready to move on or still feeling a little raw from your emotions, reading and sharing inspirational — even if a tiny bit sad — quotes about love and loss can help you feel less alone as you heal.

To get you started, here are our picks for the 20 best inspiring quotes about breaking up, moving on and learning to love all over again.

1. "You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them."

— Mandy Hale

2. "Someday it's gonna make sense."

3. "Starting today, I need to forget what's gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what's coming next."

4. "It just hurts. A lot ..."

5. "Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser."

6. "I need to let go of this false hope that you will change your mind and come back to me."

7. "Dear heart, This is what happens when you try to make decisions on your own. Sincerely, Brain."

8. "Take a step back today, look at all those beautiful things you have."

9. "It's going to be OK."

10. "The course of true love did never run smooth."

— William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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11. "Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

— The Wizard of Oz

12. "Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation."

— Khalil Gibran

13. "Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

— Mark Twain

14. "The hottest love has the coldest end."

— Socrates

15. "The heart was made to be broken."

— Oscar Wilde

16. "Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up."

— Marian Keyes, Watermelon

17. "Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars."

— Violeta Para

18. "No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief."

— Faraaz Kazi

19. "Love is unconditional. Relationships are not."

— Grant Gudmunson

20. "I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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21. "Cheating and lying aren't struggles. They're reasons to break up."

— Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides

22. "I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy."

— Jared Kintz, It Occurred To Me

23. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

— M. Kathleen Casey

24. "When you leave weary of me without a work, I shall gently let you go."

— Kim Sowol​

25. "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."

26. "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

27. "One day, I hope you look back at what we had, and regret every single thing you did to let it end."

28. "The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to everyday."

29. "I'm tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for."

30. "Cheer up, sweet, beautiful girl. You are going to be in love again and it will be magnificent."