Breakup Quotes

"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life."

"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."

"I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that."

"Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel."

"You can love someone so much. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

"Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier."

"And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end."

"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again."

"We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams."

"One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up."

"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for."

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom."

"You mourn, you hurt and you start to heal."

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you."

"You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?"

"The heart will break, yet brokenly live on."

"To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time."

"I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship."

"For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing."

"Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on."

"Walk away from it until you’re stronger."

"The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive."

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime."

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."

"Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times."

"I now know why people break up in e-mails and text messages. Doing it face-to-face is so hard."

"I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on."

"The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten."

"I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back."

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door."

"Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having."

"When someone you love says goodbye, you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you."

"We have to be whole people to find whole love."

"The way they leave tells you everything."

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

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

"Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need."

"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."

"So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on."

"Girls, you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page."

"You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future."

"I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you."

"What we learn is worth more than what we lose."

"I’ve learned that just because I don’t know how to break up with someone, doesn’t mean they were worth keeping."

"Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man."

"And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have received."

"If someone breaks up, it’s an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before."

"I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength."

"Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go."

"Heartbreak is a necessary lesson in life."

"Broken relationships are not a broken life."

"The cure for a broken heart is self-love."

"Letting go does not mean you are too weak … but a sign of self-respect."

"Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger."

"Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over."

"No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on."

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

"Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore."

"The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you."

"The only certain freedom's in departure."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours."

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

"The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive."

"Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end."

"I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on."

"Because here’s what guys don’t do if they can’t live without you: They don’t break up with you."

"You asked why I couldn't forgive you. It was because you were the love of my life, and you didn't want to be."

"The hardest thing about ending a relationship is realizing that no matter how much you care, you cannot make someone stay."

"Breakups can be painful, but they can also become the beginning of a stronger relationship with yourself."

"Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter."

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go."

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"Hearts are breakable. Even when you heal, you're never what you were before."

"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."

"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."

"I have not broken your heart...you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."

"For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack."

"The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation."

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."

"Love never dies, it only gets transferred."

"Lost love is still love."

"Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

"You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"Only time can heal your broken heart."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours."

"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."

"To me you were home, to you I was just a vacation."

"Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you."