We’ve all been there: heartbroken and alone, looking for ways to make it through the day. If you’re going through a breakup, know that you’re not alone. There are plenty of people who have gone through breakups and can understand what you’re going through. In instances like these, breakup quotes can offer some comfort.
So, check out these 103 breakup quotes to help get you through this tough time without resorting to nasty breakup letters! They’ll remind you that you’re not the only one who’s been through a breakup, and they’ll offer some words of wisdom to help you move on. Stay positive and I hope you find some comfort in these quotes!
Let the breakup quotes begin!
1) “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize that He saved you from the wrong one.” – Unknown
2) “Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Unknown
3) “I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.” – Morgan Freeman
4) “I am in charge of how I feel and today I am choosing happiness.” – Unknown
5) “You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.” – Heather Havrilesky
6) “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” – Walter Anderson
7) “Before healing a wound, you must first admit that you are bleeding.” – Unknown
8) “Sometimes the best revenge is to smile and move on.” – Unknown
9) “It’s better to be single with a standard than losing yourself for approval.” – Unknown
Breakup quotes about love.
10) “The biggest regret of my life is falling in love.” – Unknown
11) “Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.” – Steve Maraboli
12) “You broke my heart and I don’t know how to live with a broken heart.” – Unknown
13) “What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell
14) “I love you but I love me more.” – Samantha, Sex and the City
15) “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them … but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale
16) “You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.” – Cheryl Strayed
17) “Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself, and the right people will like you.” – Unknown
18) “Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.” – Unknown
19) “The course of true love did never run smooth.” – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Positive breakup quotes with a hint of humor.
20) “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because he is finally someone else’s problem.” – Unknown
21) “You cannot destroy me.” – Unknown
22) “What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?” – Unknown
23) “Even if they aren’t a part of your life anymore, they are always a part of you.” – Unknown
24) “Ever has it been that love knows not its own death until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
25) “You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?” – Nikita Gill
26) “I felt that when I was sad you would be with me but now you are nowhere.” – Unknown
27) “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; Simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – Unknown
28) “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.
29) “When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.” – Barney Stinson
Love yourself and let go of bad relationships…
30) “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
31) “I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy. I’m going to laugh so you don’t see me cry. I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me, I’m going to smile.” – Unknown
32) “The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you.” – Unknown
33) “I hate myself now because once you loved me the most.” – Unknown
34) “I have died by your deception, not with poison.” – Unknown
35) “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
36) “Homer, lighten up. You’re making ‘Happy Hour’ bitterly ironic” – Moe Szyslack, The Simpsons
37) “I hope you step on a LEGO. (Nothing personal)” – Unknown
38) “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
Sad breakup quotes by Ranata Suzuki.
39) “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
40) “Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more…The memories of you…Or the happy person I used to be.” – Ranata Suzuki
41) “It hurts a lot when things are not going how you want it.” – Unknown
42) “I never get jealous when I see my ex with someone else because my parents always taught me to give my used toys to the less fortunate.” – Unknown
43) “If someone can walk away from you, let them walk.” – Unknown
44) “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
45) “It hurts when you see others like this because I want you to only see me like this.” – Unknown
46) “You’re the jelly to my burger, the knife to my soup, the glitter to my sushi, and the ketchup to my ice cream. My point is, you’re worthless.” – Unknown
47) “If Jennifer Aniston can get over Brad Pitt, then you can get over that fuckboy in your life who clearly doesn’t deserve you.” – Unknown
48) “Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.” – Taylor Swift
49) “Don’t let someone who isn’t worth your love make you forget how much you are worth.” – Unknown
Positive breakup quotes by Paulo Coelho.
50) “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho
51) “When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.” – Paulo Coelho
52) “Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.” – Unknown
53) “I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” – Rita Rudner
54) “One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.” – Romain Rolland
55) “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. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” – Haruki Murakami
56) “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.” – Omar Khayyam
57) “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
58) “My fear came true after all, you left me for someone.” – Unknown
59) “You don’t need to be someone’s princess. You are already a queen.” – Unknown
Breakup quotes filled with love by Oscar Wilde.
60) “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
61) “Hearts live by being wounded.” – Oscar Wilde
62) “No boyfriend, no problems.” – Unknown
63) “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” – Gugu Mofokeng
64) “One of the best things about being single is that you don’t have to share your bed, you get it all to yourself. Although there is a lack of regular sheatherex, at least you don’t get pestered for it at all hours of the night, because that can be seriously annoying.” – Lucy Watson
65) “One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek
66) “The only time I lied to you was when I said I will be happy without you.” – Unknown
67) “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Drake
68) “Passivity means death, activity is living. If you are passive, you allow negative things to come into your life.” – Unknown
69) “Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.” – Unknown
Sometimes the best thing to do is move on…
70) “Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.” – Unknown
71) “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
72) “Roses lose their pedals. But they bloom again.” – Unknown
73) “I seriously cannot wait until all the pieces come together and I finally understand why I went through everything I did.” – Unknown
74) “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards
75) “Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move on.” – Unknown
76) “Someday it’s gonna make sense.” – Michael Learns to Rock
77) “Someone who values you wouldn’t ever put themselves in a position to lose you.” – Unknown
78) “Some things break your heart but fix your vision.” – Unknown
79) “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.” – Marilyn Monroe
Breakup quotes filled with hope.
80) “Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – Unknown
81) “Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown
82) “I’m still in bed cause all my boxers are dirty and if I stay in bed, I don’t have to change them.” – Niall Horan
83) “Don’t stress the could haves. If it should have, it would have.” – Unknown
84) “Take a step back today, look at all those beautiful things you have.” – Rick Warren
85) “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” – Alex Elle
86) “What’s that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. 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
87) “The people quick to walk away are the ones that never intended to stay.” – Unknown
88) “The only thing that makes it a part of your life is that you keep thinking about it.” – Unknown
89) “I think the big misconception in our society is that we’re supposed to meet the one when we’re 18, and we’re supposed to get married to them and love them for the rest of our lives. Bullshit.” – Cameron Diaz
Having a broken heart is a good sign!
90) “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
91) “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir
92) “You don’t get to run. You’re a gladiator. Gladiators don’t run. They fight. They slay dragons. They wipe off the blood and stitch their wounds and they live to fight another day. You don’t get to run.’ – Olivia Pope, Scandal
93) “Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.” – Unknown
94) “Two people who break up could never be friends. If they can stay friends, then it means that they are still in love or that they never were.” – Unknown
95) “You never want me to cry then why did you leave.” – Unknown
96) “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
97) “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.” – Stephanie Klein
98) “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
99) “I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is.” – Hannah Brown
Breakup quotes for him and her.
100) “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then” – Katharine Hepburn
101) “The worst feeling when I want to cry out loud, but can’t cry.” – Unknown
102) “You don’t walk out of a breakup empty-handed. Every breakup teaches a lesson. Find yours.” – Unknown
103) “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.” – Unknown
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