175 Breakup Quotes To Heal, Find Strength And Move On

Whether it was a short fling, a long-distance relationship, or even a divorce, here are 175 breakup quotes to help you move on.

No one gets together to breakup.

But sadly, it happens, and alot more than we expect it.

Sometimes they’re messy, sometimes they’re liberating, and sometimes they’re exactly what we needed to push us to grow, heal, and eventually find what we truly deserve.

If you’re going through a breakup right now, please know you’re not alone.

Breakup can hurt so much that no words can help other than the passage of time. But sometimes, it is the right words that can heal us instantly from a heartache that we thought we could never survive. It’s almost like an instant switch in our brain.

Here are 175 breakup quotes or healing words to you help you feel more understood, give strength and new perspective, and remind you that your heart will heal, and you will find love again.

175 Breakup Quotes

“The heart will break, but broken live on.” — Lord Byron

“A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.” — Alvy Singer from Annie Hall

“I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.” — Alice Ayres from Closer

“It’s not you, it’s me. I’ve finally realized you’re bad for me.” — Unknown

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“Stuart needs ‘space’ and ‘time,’ as if this were physics and not a human relationship.” — Kathryn Stockett from The Help

“Are you an anchor? Because you’ve done nothing but weigh me down.” — Unknown

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.” — Graham Greene from The Comedians

“We are never ever, ever getting back together.” — Taylor Swift

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts

“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Do you know sign language? Because this is the last time you’ll hear from me.” — Unknown

“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.” — L.M. Montgomery

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“I won’t play the sap for you.” — Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon

“You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.” — Ryan Phillippe

“When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut—it will heal, but there will always be a scar.” — Soo Jie

“Just believe that the heartbreak was a gift in itself. Cry if you have to, but it won’t be forever! You will find love again, and it will be even more beautiful! In the meantime enjoy all that YOU are!” — Rihanna

“I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.” — Jennifer Love Hewitt

“The only way out is through.” — Robert Frost from Servant to Servant

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will.” — Venus Williams

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” — Chinese Proverb

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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.” — Unknown

“I was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition that I had, this entire year.” — Miley Cyrus

“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.” — Lalah Delia

“I am beginning to feel like the only way to truly get over someone that you cared a lot about is to start a new chapter.” — Mindy (The Mindy Project)

“I will always cherish my initial misconceptions of you.” — Unknown

“Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?” — Anita Desai

“She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.” — Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” — Michael Bassey Johnson from The Infinity Sign

“That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.” — Robyn Schneider

“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

“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

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” — Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind

“Your ex asking you to be friends after break up is like kidnappers asking you to keep in touch after letting you go.” — Unknown

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” — Jean de La Fontaine

“You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends, and then all of a sudden one day you’re in London and you realize you’ve been in the same place as your ex for two weeks and you’re fine. And you hope he’s fine.” — Taylor Swift

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“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 Erdich from The Painted Drum

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your place in the family of things.” — Mary Oliver

“We’re all where we’re supposed to be. I am exactly where I want to be now. You can’t go backward. I’m not going backward. I’m grateful that I’m here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, ‘It happened, but I’m so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting. . . .'” — Sandra Bullock

“You can’t move things by not moving.” — Suzy Kassem

“I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” — A. A. Milne from Winnie the Pooh

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” — Shannon L. Alder

“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” — Jodi Picoult

“I need you to cancel my subscription because I’m done with your issues.” — Unknown

“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger.” — Jim Butcher

“It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.” — Angelina Jolie

“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” — Unknown

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman

“One taught me love. One taught me patience. And one taught me pain. Now, I’m so amazing. Say I’ve loved and I’ve lost. But that’s not what I see. So, look what I got Look what you taught me.” — Ariana Grande from Thank u, next

“I’m calling myself Han because you need to be Solo.” — Unknown

“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.” — Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones

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“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” — Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)

“Does it ever get lonely, thinking you could live without me?” — Halsey from Without Me

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.” — Lauren Oliver from Before I Fall

“Through it all, I have learned to laugh and cry and grow. I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her. I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful.” — Beyoncé

“Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” — Miss Piggy (muppet character)

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” — Rick Riordan from The Lightning Thief

“Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again.” — Amy Poehler

“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.” — Randy Pausch from The Last Lecture

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” — Paulo Coelho from The Zahir

“I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that’s being alone and being sad. Ain’t no one in this room alone.” — Ted Lasso

“There is a good way to break up with someone, and it doesn’t involve a post-it!” — Carrie Bradshaw from Sex & The City

“Don’t be sorry, be fierce.” — RuPaul from Rupaul’s Drag Race

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” — Sara Teasdale

“Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else.” — Hailee Steinfeld from Love Myself

“Our breakup was due to religious differences. He thought he was God. I didn’t.” — Unknown

“I have neither the time, nor the crayons, to explain this to you.” — Unknown

“If someone can walk away from you, let them walk.” — Unknown

“This is the part of me that you’re never gonna ever take away from me, no! Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blow. But you’re not gonna break my soul.” — Katy Perry from Part Of Me

“Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself, and the right people will like you.” — Unknown

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

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“You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.” — Nikki Rowe

“I would rather have my heart broken a thousand times than never to love at all. I have so much love to give — I’m not empty of love, I’m full of love.” — Cameron Diaz

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe

“You’re gonna make it after all.” — The Mary Tyler Moore Show

“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.” — J.R.R. Tolkien from The Hobbit

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“If it doesn’t agree with your spirit let it go.” — Germany Kent

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“I’m breaking down, gonna start from scratch/Shake it off like an Etch-A-Sketch/My lips are saying goodbye/My eyes are finally dry.” — Fifth Harmony from Miss Movin On

“After all, tomorrow is another day.” — Scarlett O´Hara from Gone with the Wind

“You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing. You’re terrified somebody is going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself.” — Paul Varjack from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“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

“If you take the L out of lover, it’s over.” — The Motels from Take the L

“I made up a new dance. It’s called the Move on with Your Life.” — Sky Corrigan from Superstar

“It’s over. Please get out of my Van Halen T-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up.” — Robbie Hart from The Wedding Singer

“Don’t let someone who isn’t worth your love make you forget how much you are worth.” — Unknown

“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.” — Francoise Sagan

“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

“Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterward? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle–it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act if self-preservation. It’s not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?” — Allyson Braithwaite Condie from First Day

“Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.” — Unknown

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“Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” — Unknown

“You thought that I’d be weak without ya, but I’m stronger. You thought that I’d be broke without ya, but I’m richer. You thought that I’d be sad without ya, I love harder.” — Destiny’s Child from Survivor

“The people that are quick to walk away are the ones that never intended to stay.” — Unknown

“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” — The Wizard of Oz

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“The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you.” — Unknown

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” — Mark Twain

“Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart.” — Cassandra Clare

“Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move on.” — Unknown

“We need to take our relationship to the previous level.” — Unknown

“The hottest love has the coldest end.” — Socrates

“I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.” — Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” — Unknown

“What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?” — Unknown

“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” — Turcois Ominek

“Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” — Unknown

“The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did.” — Lalla

“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” — Gugu Mofokeng

“If they are stupid enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go.” — Unknown

“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

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person everyday, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.” — Tara Westover

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“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 from Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice.” — James Patterson from Sundays at Tiffany’s

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form” — Rumi

“Because when I watch you eat, when I see you asleep, when I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in.” — Barbara Rose from The War of the Roses

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michael Faudet

“I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.” — Jared Kintz

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” — James Baldwin

“Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more. The memories of you… or the happy person I used to be.” — Ranata Suzuki

“You’ve never really had your heart broken until you have to block and delete everything after a breakup.” — Unknown

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom”.  — Rumi

“And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.” — Khadija Rupa

“You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.” — Leila Sales from Past Perfect

“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.” — Drake

“The wound is the place where the light enters you” — Rumi

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.” — William Shakespeare from The Taming of the Shrew

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe

“The heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” — Charles Dickens from Great Expectations

“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 from Churning Water

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

“Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.” — Atticus

“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

“The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.” — Shakieb Orgunwall

“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” — Bess Myerson

“I know my heart will never be the same. But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” — Sara Evans from A Little Bit Stronger

“You will need to allow your mind to take it all in so that by the time you get back up on your feet, you know how you feel.” — Lauren Conrad

“But every time you hurt me, the less that I cry. And every time you leave me, the quicker these tears dry. And every time you walk out, the less I love you. Baby, we don’t stand a chance, it’s sad but it’s true.” — Sam Smith from Too Good At Goodbyes

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” — Jan Glidewell

This Too Shall Pass

Breakup aren’t easy. It might hurt, it might sting, but whatever that feeling may be, remember, it’s only temporary.

Give yourself time to process your feelings. Talk to friends or a therapist. Write in your journal. Read breakup quotes and healing words to heal, find strength and move on.

Much love xx

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