60 Quotes On Heartbreak To Help Ease Your Pain
1. “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.” — Unknown
2. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts
3. “However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.” — Manna Francis
4. “I wish I could hurt you the way you hurt me. But I know that if I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it.” — Unknown
5. “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
6. “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, Churning Water
7. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” — Mark Twain
8. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” — Richard Puz
9. “I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” — Sara Evans
10. “The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” — Unknown
11. “The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.” — Shakieb Orgunwall
12. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” — Julia Roberts
13. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” — Stelle Atwater
14. “I understand it, but I don’t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers.” — Amy Plum, If I Should Die
15. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” — Alysha Speer
16. “Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.” — Atticus
17. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” — Christina Westover
18. “The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.” — Unknown
19. “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.” — Becca Fitzpatrick
20. “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.” — Unknown
21. “You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don’t want either of them back.” — Colleen Hoover, November
22. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” — Steve Maraboli
23. “If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market place!” — Thomas Hardy
24. “Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.” — Kristen Ashley, For You
25. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” — E.A. Bucchianeri
26. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michael Faudet
27. “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” — Margaret George
28. “My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I’ve missed him.” — Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
29. “One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation.” — Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
30. “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
31. “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, Hearts in Atlantis
32. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” — Aman Jassal
33. “The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.” — Sanober Kahn
34. “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner
35. “This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice.” — James Patterson
36. “It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.” — Jocelyn Murray
37. “Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.” — Unknown
38. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you…then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” — Aubrey Drake Graham
39. “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
40. “I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again.” — Atticus
41. “I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
42. “You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.” — Unknown
43. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” — Bette Davis
44. “When you are standing in [a] 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
45. “I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything.” — David Levithan, Every Day
46. “Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” — Leo Tolstoy
47. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” — Tin Man
48. “If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.” — Brian MacLearn
49. “The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” — Unknown
50. “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
51. “The heart is heaviest when it’s empty and lightest when it’s full” — Helen Scott Taylor, A Clockwork Fairytale
52. “Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.” — Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
53. “I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.” — Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
54. “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” — Cassandra Clare
55. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” — Henny Youngman
56. “Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before” — Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
57. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” — Mandy Hale
58. “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” — Miss Piggy
59. “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.” — Pearl S. Buck
60. “You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.” — Unknown
