100 Quotes About Heartbreak

We all experience heartbreak at some point in our lives. It’s the pain of loss, betrayal, and disappointment that comes with falling in love with someone who does not share your feelings. While heartbreak has a huge impact on our emotions, it doesn’t have to remain forever. We can learn from it and take the positive lessons with us to live better lives after heartbreak Read more

We’ve put together the best quotes about heartbreak so you can find comfort and take your life to the next level after you suffer through one of these tough times.

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This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. . Marilyn Monroe
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To douchebags! " he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart, " he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her. Jamie Mcguire
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Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land . Pablo Neruda
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the...
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The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... Nicholas Sparks
Ever has it been that love knows not its own...
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
We're staying together,
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We're staying together, " he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. Rick Riordan
Hearts are breakable,
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Hearts are breakable, " Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before". Cassandra Clare
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! Unknown
I know my heart will never be the same But...
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I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay Sara Evans
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So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.a. Bucchianeri
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You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave? . Unknown
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake &...
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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
You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
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You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry Taylor Swift
So I placed my heart under lock and key To...
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So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here Deborah Cox
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. Unknown
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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
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There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. Douglas Adams
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Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost. W.b. Yeats
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You can obsess and obsess over how things ended–what you did wrong or could have done differently–but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry? Jess Rothenberg
She had loved him for such a long time, she...
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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? Cassandra Clare
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Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. 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 you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over. Maggi Richard
Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when...
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Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'mma be ok Leona Lewis
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...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. Jojo Moyes
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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
When you leave, weary of me, without a word I...
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When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go. Kim Sowol
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world...
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No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. Faraaz Kazi
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When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you. Stieg Larsson
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where...
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Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. Coco J. Ginger
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else...
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When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better. Coco J. Ginger
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The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one. John Green
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I'll tell you something, Harpy, " he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything. Kristan Higgins
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But I was youngand didn’t know betterand someone should have told me to capture every secondevery kiss & every night Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are peoplewatchingand I just want to be somewhere silentsomewhere still But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonelyand I don’t understand Because I was alone my whole life My whole life I was so damn lonely and I was content with thatbecause I liked myself and my own company and I didn’t need anyone I thought But then there was you ...So, someone should have told me that love is for those few brave who can handle the unbearable emptiness, the unbearable guilt and lack of oneself, Because I lost myself to someone I loveand I might get myself back one daybut it will take time, it will take time. This is gonna take some time. I wish someone would have told me this. Someone should have told me this. . Charlotte Eriksson
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There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for. Katherine Owen
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For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them. Catherynne M. Valente
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She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn’t give love. He could make love. But he couldn’t make promises. She had desperately wanted his promises. She wanted his heart, knew she couldn’t have it so she took what she could get. Temporary bliss. Passionate highs and lows. Withdrawal and manipulation. He only stayed long enough to take what he needed and keep moving. If he stopped moving, he would self-destruct. If he stopped wandering, he would have to face himself. He chose to stay in the dark where he couldn’t see. If he exposed himself and the sun came out, he’d see his shadow. He was deathly afraid of his shadow. She saw his shadow, loved it, understood it. Saw potential in it. She thought her love would change him. He pushed and he pulled, tested boundaries, thinking she would never leave. He knew he was hurting her, but didn’t know how to share anything but pain. He was only comfortable in chaos. Claiming souls before they could claim him. Her love, her body, she had given to him and he’d taken with such feigned sincerity, absorbing every drop of her. His dark heart concealed. She’d let him enter her spirit and stroke her soul where everything is love and sensation and surrender. Wide open, exposed to deception. It had never occurred to her that this desire was not love. It was blinding the way she wanted him. She couldn’t see what was really happening, only what she wanted to happen. She suspected that he would always seek to minimize the risk of being split open, his secrets revealed. He valued his soul’s privacy far more than he valued the intimacy of sincere connection so he kept his distance at any and all costs. Intimacy would lead to his undoing–in his mind, an irrational and indulgent mistake. When she discovered his indiscretions, she threw love in his face and beat him with it. Somewhere deep down, in her labyrinth, her intricacy, the darkest part of her soul, she relished the mayhem. She felt a sense of privilege for having such passion in her life. He stirred her core. The place she dared not enter. The place she could not stir for herself. But something wasn’t right. His eyes were cold and dark. His energy, unaffected. He laughed at her and her antics, told her she was a mess. Frantic, she looked for love hiding in his eyes, in his face, in his stance, and she found nothing but disdain. And her heart stopped. G.G. Renee Hill
I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones...
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I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault. Charlotte Eriksson
I know I'm not going to be in your head...
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I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.  Crystal Woods
It is our wounds that create in us a desire...
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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
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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
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I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder. Jennifer Salaiz
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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough. Unknown
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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
They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at...
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They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover. David Rovics
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts...
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Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. Unknown
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not...
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Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. Criss Jami
It is strange how often a heart must be broken...
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if...
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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't...
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Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore. Leila Sales
I have been poisoned in your love and now I...
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I have been poisoned in your love and now I need antidote Jacqueline.L.J! <3 Omaid Olovejlj Zazai
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If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black. They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms. Marlen Komar
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And me, standing under the splintered night, catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black, hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night. Its voice cracks, on your name. My eyes close, on your name. Marlen Komar
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Yes I value strong friendships on a very deep level, I value these connections because time and time again i will go through heartbreak, I will forget my self worth, I will make mistakes and my world will feel broken beyond repair and to have these special people in your life that will be there to help you pick up the pieces and remind you what makes you special and worth being alive is the most amazing feeling in the world and I would never trade that for anything. John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
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I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now-- I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked and attend to your own happiness? E.m. Forster
I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic
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I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic Mohadesa Najumi
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Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored and the more you immerse yourself in light, the less you will feel the darkness. There is more to life than nothingness. And cynicism. And nihilism. And selfishness. And glorious isolation. Be selfish with yourself, but live your life through your immortal acts, acts that engrain your legacy onto humanity. Transcend your fears and follow yourself into the void instead of letting yourself get eaten up by entropy and decay. Freedom is being yourself without permission. Be soft and leave a lasting impression on everybody you meet . Mohadesa Najumi
Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you...
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Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches Mohadesa Najumi
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You are not always right. It’s not always about being right. The best thing you can offer others is understanding. Being an active listener is about more than just listening, it is about reciprocating and being receptive to somebody else. Everybody has woes. Nobody is safe from pain. However, we all suffer in different ways. So learn to adapt to each person, know your audience and reserve yourself for people who have earned the depths of you . Mohadesa Najumi
I am a habitual rule-breaker
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I am a habitual rule-breaker Mohadesa Najumi
Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society
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Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society Mohadesa Najumi
I have been at war with parts of myself for...
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I have been at war with parts of myself for so long Mohadesa Najumi
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All my life I have heard the term happiness thrown around like a buzzword as if it is something to be gained. As I have previously expressed, I do not view happiness as a tangible thing. To me happinesss is the elimination of accumulated darkness. Self-sustaining happiness comes from contentment of acceptance, compassion and sympathetic joy, qualities which cannot be developed like a muscle, but rather they must be actualized by the removal of fetters in the mind. Mohadesa Najumi
I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me...
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I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal Mohadesa Najumi
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Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full. Kasie West
We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each...
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We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams. Kate Chisman
Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my...
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Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. Ranata Suzuki
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Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite – it means you feel it all more. With your heart in fragments, every sensation is sharper, every emotion more acute. Your feelings are enhanced, like a blind man with an impeccable sense of smell, or a deaf woman whose eyes can perceive things a normal person would never recognize. The brokenhearted are the best empaths of all. Unknown
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You are going, Jane?""I am going, sir."" You are leaving me?"" Yes."" You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?" What unutterable pathos was in his voice! How hard was it to reiterate firmly, "I am going! "" Jane! "" Mr. Rochester.""Withdraw then, I consent; but remember, you leave me here in anguish. Go up to your own room, think over all I have said, and, Jane, cast a glance on my sufferings; think of me." He turned away, he threw himself on his face on the sofa. "Oh, Jane! my hope, my love, my life! " broke in anguish from his lips. Then came a deep, strong sob. Unknown
It took me two years to give him all of...
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It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night. Dannika Dark
Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give...
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Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give the sweetest kiss. C.J. Carlyon
Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of...
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Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning. Lori Jenessa Nelson
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She’s wild, unpredictable and dangerous as hell. Not just to my sanity, but to my health. She’s the kind of girl you know you’ll want forever with and forever will still not be enough. But she’s not the type of girl to give forever to you willingly. I’m pretty sure you’d have to drag it out of her kicking and screaming.” - Dominic Delaney -Damaged Nina DAngelo
I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an...
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I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up. Daniel Handler
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Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him. V.S. Carnes
If a soul could drown in its own tears, then...
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If a soul could drown in its own tears, then hers was already dead. R. W. Patterson
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope Elizabeth Gilbert
I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When...
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I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters. Karen Quan
The opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the...
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The opening, the breaking, the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting, the healing, the putting back togetheris always too long. AVA.
I can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end...
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I can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips. AVA.
Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped,...
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Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works. NZuri Za Austin
But death was her curse and her gift, and death...
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But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years. Sarah J. Maas
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves...
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone Richard Puz
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost...
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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! Edgar Allan Poe
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...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them, no matter what shoes you wear. Kellie Elmore
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…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...
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There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki
I had someone once who made every day mean something....
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I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore. Ranata Suzuki
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It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them — from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs….. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all. Ranata Suzuki
If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold...
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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
I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out...
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I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him. Ranata Suzuki
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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
The last time I felt alive — I was looking...
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The last time I felt alive — I was looking into your eyes. Breathing your air…. touching your skin…… Saying goodbye…. The last time I felt alive…. I was dying. Ranata Suzuki
He was both everything I could ever want… And nothing...
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He was both everything I could ever want… And nothing I could ever have… Ranata Suzuki
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I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you — even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go. Ranata Suzuki
Though these words will never find you, I hope that...
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Though these words will never find you, I hope that you knew I was thinking of you today….. and that I was wishing you every happiness. Love Always, The girl you loved once. Ranata Suzuki
I have poured my heart out ….And now I am...
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I have poured my heart out ….And now I am empty. Ranata Suzuki
The only place I ever felt at home was with...
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The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted. Ranata Suzuki
Maybe love and pain are synonyms.
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Maybe love and pain are synonyms. Vanshika Dhyani
I would have followed you to hell and back... if...
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I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back. Ranata Suzuki