110 Quotes About Broken Hearts To Help Ease Your Pain and Sadness

Poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously said, “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” But sometimes the pain of heartbreak is just too much to bear, leaving us emotionally gutted and feeling depressed and despair like never before, just as these 110 broken heart quotes express.

Sometimes that pain comes from a breakup or a love that has been lost. Grief over the death of a loved one can also cause your heart to feel as if it has been shattered to pieces. Even the betrayal of a friend might lead your heart to mourn a loss. These types of heartbreak are very different, but they stir up similar feelings deep inside and set us on a journey of healing and recovery.

With time, that heartbreak will lessen and the figurative clouds surrounding you will begin to lift, even if it doesn’t feel that way at the moment of your deep emotional pain. But hopefully, these heartbroken quotes—along with maybe a good crying session—will help you find some solace and peace during this difficult time.

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Broken Heart Quotes About Love and Loss

1. “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

2. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” —Bette Davis

3. “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” —Miss Piggy

4. “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.” —Unknown

5. “I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.” —Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour

6. "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. " —Aubrey Drake Graham

7. “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.” —Unknown

8. “The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.” —Unknown

9. “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” —L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

10. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” —Henny Youngman

11. “You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.” —Unknown

12. “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

13. “I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.” —Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

14. “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

15. “You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.” —Unknown

16. “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

17. “Love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.” —Stephanie Meyer, New Moon

18. “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” —Terri Guillemets

19. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” —Stelle Atwater

20. “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

21. “Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” —Warsan Shire

22. “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” —Andrea Gibson

23. “I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again.” —Atticus

24. “What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same.” —Perry Poetry

25. “She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.” —Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything

26. “The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.” —Sanober Kahn

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

28. “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.” —Becca Fitzpatrick

29. “Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.” —Unknown

30. “A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.” —Unknown

31. “Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before" —Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

32. “I gave you the best of me.” —Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

33. “The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.” —Shakieb Orgunwall

34. “Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives.” —Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Because You Deserve Love

35. “I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.” —David Levithan, Every Day

36. “My heart's cracking apart all over again because of the way I've missed him.” —Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.” —Jocelyn Murray

43. “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

44. “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

45. “You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.” —Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes

46. “The heart is heaviest when it’s empty and lightest when it’s full” —Helen Scott Taylor, A Clockwork Fairytale

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

48. “Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.” —Alessandra Torre

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

Broken Heart Quotes About Grief

51. “Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.” —Jojo Moyes, After You

52. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” —E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

53. “There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best.” —Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

54. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” —Unknown

55. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” —Faraaz Kazi

56. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” —Carroll Bryant