99+ Breakup Quotes To Help You Overcome Your Heartbreak
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99+ Breakup Quotes To Help You Overcome Your Heartbreak

  • May 14, 2024
  • 12 min read

Breakups are the phases of life in one’s life which give you lessons about life. Dating is tricky; it becomes challenging to deal with your emotions when things don’t work out with your partner. You must process your emotions to move toward a new chapter of your life. Whether for better or worse, one thing is sure, parting ways is never easy. The memories will haunt you, and flashbacks of happy memories will attract you to reconcile with your partner. Whatever your feelings are, we have compiled some awesome breakup quotes to help you overcome your heartbreak. So, stay hooked and keep scrolling!      

Deep Breakup Quotes

Whether you have been with your partner for a few weeks or years, breaking up after giving your heart into a relationship can leave you heartbroken, depressed, and lost for a while. If you are trying to pull yourself together, reading some relatable quotes can help you move on. Check out our collection of deep, heart-touching Deep broken heart quotes below.  

“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

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

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

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

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” –Washington Irving

“A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” –Marilyn Monroe

“Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.” – Frank Ocean

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

“We have to be whole people to find whole love” — Cheryl Strayed

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

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

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

“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

Quotes About Breakup

Ending a romantic relationship can be emotionally draining for everyone. Some often start ghosting partners to avoid a heartbreaking goodbye and awkwardness. However, you must give closure to a relationship to save your partner from being hopeful. Check out our quotes about breakups you can use to send your partner to indicate you are over with the relationship.   

“Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.”

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”

“I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is.” — Hannah Brown

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.”

“No boyfriend, no problems.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a brand new opportunity to rebuild what you truly want.”

“Inhale the future, exhale the past.”

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

“The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” — Mohadesa Najumi

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

Funny Breakup Quotes

A little humor can save the things in your life, whether to lift your mood after a breakup or winding up a relationship with a chuckle rather than a tear. Our compiled one-liners and funny quotes with captions can lift your mood effortlessly.   

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

“Our relationship is like my financial status: broke.”

Hey babe I think is time we take our relationship to the previous level

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

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

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

“I hope you step on a Lego.”

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

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

“I’m no longer following my heart. It keeps giving me bad directions.”

“Please don’t be fooled by Adele. You’ll never find someone like me.”

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

“If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” — RuPaul

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because he is finally someone else’s problem.”

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

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

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I hope you find someone who treasures you

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

Sad Quotes – Relationship Broken Heart

The world seems to move without you when you are suffering from the grief of a breakup. Emotional pain followed by a breakup can leave you feeling depressed and isolated. However, reading sad breakup quotes can help you feel that you are not alone in your emotional struggle.   

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” –Maya Angelou

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

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

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

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”―Mineko Iwasaki

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

“When we miss someone often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.” –Luigina Sgarro

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” –H.C. Paye

“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, “Now and at the Hour of Our Death”

“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”

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

Breakup Quotes For Instagram

Whether you want to pretend you have moved on or you’re still holding on, the below breakup quotes and captions for Instagram can effortlessly help you express your thoughts to your ex. Scroll below and copy-paste any of them on your IG posts. 

“We need to take our relationship to the previous level. 

“Some things break your heart but fix your vision.”
“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” — Gugu Mofokeng
“You don’t walk out of a breakup empty-handed. Every breakup teaches a lesson. Find yours.”
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because he is finally someone else’s problem.”

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

“It’s better to be single with a standard than losing yourself for approval.”

“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, Annie Hall

“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

“You’re the jelly to my burger, the knife to my soup, the glitter to my sushi, and the ketchup to my ice cream. My point is, you’re worthless.”

“A breakup would imply she was my girlfriend. She was a girl who was my friend who is now a girl who is not my friend.” — Sheldon Cooper, THE BIG BANG THEORY

“I never get jealous when I see my ex with someone else, because my parents always taught me to give my used toys to the less fortunate.”

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

“You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?” — Nikita Gill

“Definition of Ex: Thanks for the Ex-perience. Our time has Ex-pired. Now, Ex-it my life”

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

“Letting you go is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but holding on was even harder.”

“You were a chapter in my book of life, but it’s time to start a new chapter.”

“Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.” – Jerry Seinfeld

“The only way to truly mend a broken heart is to find the strength to move on.”

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes we need to let go of what’s killing us, even if it’s killing us to let go.”

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens

“Every breakup is an opportunity to find someone better suited for you.”

“It’s not the end, it’s a new beginning in disguise.”

Breakup Quotes Shorts

“Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.”

“If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door.” — Jacki Wells Wunderlin

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

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”

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

“It’s better to be single with a standard than losing yourself for approval.”

“A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize that He saved you from the wrong one.”

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

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

“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.”

“Some things break your heart but fix your vision.”

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

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

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