Love is the most powerful force on earth. It can move mountains and makes the world around you sparkle with joy. The magic touch love adds to your life is both intoxicating and awe-inspiring. However, when a magical relationship is slowly coming to an end or when your love is one-sided and unreturned, it can be excruciatingly painful. Not only does it feel as if the other person stabbed you in the heart but it also seems as if the emotional wounds simply do not heal. Being hurt so deeply by someone who you’ve opened up your heart and soul is painful beyond measurement. To help you in slowly healing your heartbreak, we’ve collected some very special broken heart quotes. These heartbreak quotes will empower you to let go and move on with your life. Be sure to also have a look at our fine selection of uplifting breakup quotes.
Not many things in life can be as emotionally painful as a breakup or love that is not reciprocated. You may have always envisioned yourself at the side of your significant other but things somehow came unexpectedly different. Realizing that what was once a healthy and loving relationship is now a pile of shards is devastatingly painful.
"I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart."
Julia Roberts
When someone has broken your heart, you all of a sudden notice how vulnerable and powerless you have become. You may also be frustrated because you’ve slowly begun realizing that things will never be as they once were.
Enjoy our collection of broken heart quotes. May they lift you up in times of great pain and sorrow!
During the extremely difficult stages of a breakup, it can be quite helpful to have a couple of supporting broken heart quotes at hand to lift you up. Such quotes will help you to let go of the denial, anger, and depression that come with heartbreak.
75 Heart Touching Broken Heart Quotes
Here are these uplifting broken heart quotes
"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
"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."
Marilyn Monroe
"Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars."
Violeta Parra
"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
"Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people."
Mansi Soni
"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
"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
"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."
Sara Teasdale
"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
"How can you forget the day your heart is broken? The funny thing about a broken heart is that it's not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues on and you have no choice but to continue on with it. You take the hand that fate has dealt you and you press forward because there is nothing else that can be done."
Tracy Winegar
"I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever."
H.C. Paye
"Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities."
Patti Roberts
"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
"So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."
E.A. Bucchianeri
"When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time."
April Mae Monterrosa
"And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end."
Elizabeth Eulberg
"Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow."
J.M. Barrie
"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
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."
Richard Puz
"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
"A broken heart bleeds tears."
Steve Maraboli
"Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope."
Toba Beta
"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. […] It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams as if there were nothing the matter with it."
L.M. Montgomery
"The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever."
Carroll Bryant
"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
"For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack."
D.H. Lawrence
"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
"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
"Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares."
Aman Jassal
"The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow"
Sonya Watson
"I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."
Sarah Dessen
"The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart."
Anmol Rawat
"Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete."
Anmol Rawat
"I hate you for all the years I'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?"
Lisa Kleypas
"I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive."
Denice Envall
"Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them."
Fulton J. Sheen
"It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever."
Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
"Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile."
Mia Asher
“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on."
Federico Chini
"I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive."
Patti Roberts
"I know my heart will never be the same but I'm telling myself I'll be okay."
Sara Evans
"A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ."
Martha Gellhorn
"The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart."
Becca Fitzpatrick
"It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having."
Katie Ashley
"Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty."
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
"Maybe it's a good idea to write something about you in my book… At least then, there will be a place where we will meet every day… and be together forever!"
Anamika Mishra
"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."
Christina Westover
"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
L.M. Montgomery
"Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart."
Toba Beta
"Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. 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 your shoulders. The phrase is: It's over."
Maggi Richard
"The heart was made to be broken."
Oscar Wilde
"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."
Shannon L. Alder
"Must I go bound while you go free, must I love a man who doesn't love me, must I be born with so little art, as to love a man who'll break my heart"
Cassandra Clare
"Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again."
Carol Rifka Brunt
"Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you"
Cecily von Ziegesar
“If only you would come back and see what damage you create, I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…"
Mehek Bassi
“You have to leave your broken heart in a place where- when the woman who knows how to see what a gift is, sees it- your broken heart can be picked up again."
C. JoyBell C.
"Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things."
Stephanie Kallos
"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."
Shannon L. Alder
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."
Mark Twain
"To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control."
Alexandra Adornetto
"It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts."
Steve Maraboli
"Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces."
Patti Roberts
"There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see the woman you love, the one woman you would do anything to protect, is the woman who is afraid of you."
Mallika Nawal
"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."
Faraaz Kazi
"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."
Jodi Picoult
"A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember."
Anthony Liccione
"Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget."
Alysha Speer
"No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief."
Faraaz Kazi
"Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, “I want to know why!"
Shannon L. Alder
"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
"If you love something, let it go…"
Karen Halvorsen Schreck
"Love hurts when it changes us."
Toba Beta
"Only God can mend a broken heart."
Kevin Walker
"Grief is the price for love. But hearts are made to mend. Christ can do wonders with a broken heart if given all the pieces."
Suzanne Woods Fisher
I hope you enjoyed reading this collection of broken heart quotes. What do you do when you're struggling to overcome a painful heartbreak?
Stay victorious!
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Short lines can explain the whole heart. This is beauty of quotes, these quotes just steal my heart.
I wonder can the heart really be broken, or you just “think” it's broken?
My girlfriend and I were happy as far I could tell and I never thought that we would break up. When her cousin died in a tragic car accident she went to her family on Mexico for a week. I couldn't go because I was in the middle of entertaining out of town clients for work. She did not seem to be upset that I could not go so I let her be. The next thing I knew, she reconnected with an old friend from high school that she had a crush on years back and they started to have an affair! I had no clue what was going on until she came back from Mexico. She proceeded to see this old friend and I caught her and her old friend one night hugging each other. I confronted her and she told me the truth about what happened. We broke up and went our separate ways. Neither of us fought for our relationship. I was angry and decided not to be upset about it and just keep it moving. Then after about few months of no contact with her I became sad. I wanted her to tell me she wanted to be with me and not her old friend. I contacted Dr.Mack for a love spell and he truly helped me! he was able to get her to miss me she wanted us to get back together again. She had lot of regrets and felt bad for not fighting to keep me and for cheating in generally. she cherish our relationship so much more now and we are together now!
Please can you hook me up with Dr. Mack? Am passing through hell right now.
Nice love quotes
Thanks for the encouragement
it hurts to read these words but they are beautiful.
thank you for sharing
you are antagonizing the relationship think twice its not a good way
Nice post … thanks a lot
Very nice quotes thanks for sharing….
Nice quotes . Please keep on sharing some more
nice collection, direct touch to heart.
amazing content.
thank you for sharing
Just amazing….All these thoughts are just deep and definitely expressed by the broken heart. Thanks for sharing.
All I wanted from you was for you to notice me but you can't forget about her. It's sad how I wanted you since last year and you would even notice me. But this year you found someone else. But when she left you, you would look back at the memories you had with her. You would also cry in your room everytime you think of her because she was your first love. Last year you noticed me and now you don't even remember me.
Dated my boyfriend for 13 years.we have one son and am 7 months pregnant.i have just found out he has been seeing and sleeping with his colleague for a year and a half.when I first got suspicious,I confronted him and he said she was just a colleague.i looked through his phone and it was all there.when I asked,he still denied till I showed him the evidence,that's when he accepted and apologised and wants us back.
Truth is I can't get to forgive him even when I badly want to.i feel hate building up.dont want anything to do with him .
He does everything to be better but it's appreciated by all who get to see it but I see AN ENEMY TO MY LIFE.
I don't know if am just still hurting but am sure I don't want him in anyway near the rest of my life
It a relieve to read these kind words,really helpful for my soul and also shows their is a brighter side of love.Thanks for sharing.
Really am strong now though my husband left me because of these quotes
Hii Sir very good artical.
thanks for sharing keep up the good work.
I was in a live-in relationship with a man for 6+ years. I left everything for me n now he left me for another woman.
He used to like her when they were small.
Please help me to get him back to me as I can't live without him
heart can be broken many times, and still heal perfectly….unless you felt true love. lucky or unlucky to experience true love…because after…you can never be the same
Hey Steve,
great compilation! Yes, a broken heart can hurt for quite some time. But as long as you still have friends and are able to maintain a positive outlook on life, your broken heart will heal.
This quote here is sad though: "I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it’s perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."
Yes, if you life like that you don't get hurt. But you are also missing out on every positive aspect of love. This person has basically locked away her heart. Hopefully she will one day find an amazing partner.
Me Am Here Seeking For Your Help My Dearz. I Have Been In Love With A Girl For Almost 4years , I Have Been Faithful To Our Relation. I Have Tried To My Best To Make Her Happy. I Have Been There In Her Bad Situations I Never Departed From Her. I Would Provid Every Thing She Wanted But Right Now Things Changed . So Far I Have Caught Her With 3 Boyfriends, But Stil I Could Forgive Her. She Ever Tel Me How She Loves But She Is Over Making Me Cry Because Of Her Actions Towards Me. She Has Over Broken My Heart, Please What Should I Do, Because Its Like I Over Love Her
what is love? idont think that there is smthing real about love pain and also hurts, i was innocent about love, and i dont think that i would give a chance to it,any more to bother me, just guy exercise living without love at that time you will know the sweetness and confortness of living alone
Love is the most beautiful place to be, just that you risk yourself for a heartbreak… but lets not loose hope for love. Either you get back together with that person or you find another one, just make the most out of every moment🙃
Keep up the good work I really get my self back now with some of the quote, some like if u love something let it go but my question is what if they come back what will you do
Nice bro thank you.