By Whether you’re currently navigating your first breakup or collecting a series of exes, the process seems to be challenging. Divisions can often feel like the world is crumbling around you, but they also present an opportunity for self-reflection, personal growth, and a deeper appreciation for your company. While no one truly enjoys the journey through heartbreak, it’s possible to emerge from it more robust and happier. Explore a curated collection of heartbreakers quotes that resonate with your pain and offer hope for brighter days.
There exist numerous healthy and therapeutic ways to heal from a breakup. Some find solace in embarking on a thorough social media detox, fully embracing self-care routines, and keeping a stash of self-affirming and tranquility-inspiring quotes to remind themselves of life’s true priorities. Others seek comfort in cocooning themselves with a warm, fuzzy blanket, indulging in comfort food, and immersing themselves in a marathon of romantic comedies.
Irrespective of your chosen method for self-soothing, remember that this difficult phase will eventually pass. To assist you on this journey, we’ve gathered a selection of our favorite quotes that speak to the pain of a broken heart and offer reassurance that there is a brighter tomorrow waiting for you.
Heartbreakers Quotes
1. I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Neil Gaiman
3. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods.
Truman Capote
4. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz
5. Almost nobody gets out of love alive.
Helen Fisher
6. Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
7. In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted — atrocious.
Marcel Proust
8. Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
Elizabeth Gilbert
9. Love never dies of want, but often of indigestion.
Ninon de Lenclos
10. It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.
Allen Ginsberg
11. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
Nicholas Sparks
12. ‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
13. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.
Andrea Gibson
14. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
Mineko Iwasaki
15. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
16. So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.
Ariana
17. Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse De Lamartine
18. I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.
Julia Roberts
19. 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
20. If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
21. 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
22. The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
23. I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
Christie Brinkley
24. 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
25. A divorce is like an amputation: You survive it, but there’s less of you.
Margaret Atwood
26. The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner
27. Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
The Tinman in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
28. Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.
Rita Stradling
29. The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.
Margaret George
30. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
31. 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
32. It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
33. Miss Piggy
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
34. You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It’s just a matter of willpower: The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.
Junot Díaz
35. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D.H. Lawrence
36. The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron
37. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
38. Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
H. L. Mencken
39. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
40. The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde
41. I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.
H.C. Paye
42. Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.
Patti Roberts
43. The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Carroll Bryant
44. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
Federico Chini
45. 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
46. 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
47. Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
48. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
49. Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli
50. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
51. 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
52. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
Faraaz Kazi
53. Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t no love at all.
Toni Morrison
54. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
55. So since i’m still here livin’, i guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born.
Langston Hughes
56. That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going.
Zora Neale Hurston
Even the most resilient and robust individuals often find it challenging to emerge unharmed from the pain and aftermath of heartbreak.
These quotes about heartbreak are designed to offer solace and a sense of release as you navigate your pain. With time, you’ll be able to pick yourself up, dust off the wounds, embark on a journey of self-discovery, and rediscover life’s joys again.
