450 Wise Broken Heart Quotes To Help You Heal (2023)

1. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S Lewis

2. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” – Julia Roberts

3. The hottest love has the coldest end.

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

5. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” ― Steve Maraboli

6. “I will never regret you or say I wish I’d never met you. Because once upon a time you were exactly what I needed.” — Bob Marley

7. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

8. “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” — Wallace Stegner

9. “All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me.” — Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball”

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

11. “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

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

13. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

14. “If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.” — Unknown

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16. 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?

17. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

18. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

19. “Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.” — Rita Stradling, Making Bad Choices

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

21. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” — Julia Roberts

22. “For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can’t hold any back.” — Rick Warren

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24. “She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn’t sure who’d broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.” ― Ann Brashares

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26. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho

27. 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.

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

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

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

31. “I cried a lot because of you. I laughed a lot because of you. I believed in love because of you. And now I’m heartbroken because of you.”- Unknown

32. “The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.” — Charles Simeon

33. “You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.” – Isabel Gillies

34. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

35. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli

36. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

37. “Tell me the truth boy, am I losing you for good? We used to kiss all night, but now there's just no use.” — Solange, “Losing You”

38. “These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real” — Evanescence, “My Immortal”

39. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Rabindranath Tagore

40. “Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?” ― Debra K. Messer

41. I thought that I’d been been hurt before but no one’s ever left me quite this sore. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to breathe me back to life.” — Shawn Mendes, “Stitches”

42. 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.

43. “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

44. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carrol Bryant

45. “When life seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”– Kid Cudi

46. Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

47. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu

48. “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

49. “Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…” – Hal Tipper

50. Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

51. You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

52. I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

53. “If you love someone, showing them is better than telling them. If you stop loving someone, telling them is better than showing them.” – Karen Salmansohn

54. “I scratched out your name and your face. What is it about you that I can't erase, baby? Well every promise don't work out that way” — Beyonce, “Sandcastles”

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

56. “You were red and you liked me cause I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn’t for you.” — Halsey, “Colors”

57. I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.

58. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake, help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale

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

60. “A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.” – Anthony Liccione

61. The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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

63. “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” – Oprah Winfrey

64. “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

65. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” ― Alysha Speer

66. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling

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

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

69. It’s funny how artistic we become when our hearts are broken.

70. “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner

71. “Wanting her is hard to forget, loving her is hard to regret, losing her is hard to accept, but letting go is the most painful.” — Unknown

72. “There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

73. So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

74. “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

75. The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.

76. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist

77. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

78. “Don’t afraid to move on and start a new chapter.” –Unknown

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

80. “You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – Guy Finley

81. “When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” — Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe For Healing After Loss

82. Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret

83. “Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale

84. “In another life I would make you stay, so I don’t have to say you were the one that got away.” — Katy Perry, “The One That Got Away”

85. “A wounded deer leaps highest.” — Emily Dickinson

86. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

87. I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

88. Loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars. — Lauryn Hill, “Ex-Factor”

89. “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ” – Jean Giraudoux

90. “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” – L. Ron Hubbard

91. “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

92. “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

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94. “If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.” –Billy Idol

95. “We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.” – Rae Hacton

96. “In the depths of sorrow we will eventually find an unwavering light.” – Unknown

97. “I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You'll search for me inside of everyone you're with and I won't be found." — r.H. Sin

98. “Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

99. The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.

100. “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” — Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

101. “Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.” ― Gregory Roberts

102. “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” — Laura Kasischke, The Raising

103. “Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things, it just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.” – Unknown

104. You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.

105. Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

106. “Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.”- Unknown

107. “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” ― Margaret George

108. “What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell

109. “Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one. Break their bones, they have 206 of those!” – Jayy Von Monroe

110. “Sometimes you have to unfollow people in real life.” — Unknown

111. Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

112. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

113. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” ― Sienna Miller

114. “It’s sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye.” – Carrie Underwood

115. “The scars of your love remind me of us. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all.” — Adele, “Rolling in the Deep”

116. A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying ‘Long time no see.’

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

118. “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

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120. It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

121. “To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.” — Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

122. “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

123. “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” — Saint Jerome

124. “It hurts like hell. And then one day, it doesn’t.” – Unknown

125. God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.

126. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”- Alexander Graham Bell

127. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” — Cherokee Indian Proverb

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

130. “What about us? What about all the broken happy ever afters?” — Pink, “What about us?”

131. “I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.” —Ashley Rickards

132. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis

133. “I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” — Christie Brinkley

134. “Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.” – Unknown

135. “Don’t you dare for one more second surround yourself with people who are not aware of the awesomeness that you are.” – Karen Salmansohn

136. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Octavia Butler

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

138. “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” – Cassandra Clare

139. You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

140. Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.

141. “You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp

142. The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever

143. Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.

144. When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

145. “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard

146. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.” — Barbara De Angelis

147. “Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flash through my mind, but I just smiled and said I used to.” —Unknown

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149. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

150. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown

151. “You can only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha

152. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” — Rob Liano

153. “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” ― Cassandra Clare

154. The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

155. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

156. Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

157. “This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.” ― James Patterson

158. “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

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

160. “It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke

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

162. “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

163. Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

164. “As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.” –Tom Hanks

165. “And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is… just… moving on.” – Unknown

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

167. “I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

168. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a damn about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” – Johnny Depp

169. “Everything is gone except traces of you inside me — and the years like the wind are sweeping those away.” — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

170. Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

171. So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.

172. “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

173. “The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.” — Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

174. “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” – Jeffery Eugenides

175. “Missing someone special to you bring tears to your eyes, but remembering all the good times you had brings a smile to your face.” – Nishan Panwar

176. “Each night I put my head to my pillow I try to tell myself I’m strong because I’ve gone one more day without you.” — Unknown

177. “I will never regret loving you, only believing you loved me too.” — Unknown

178. “One day you'll finally see, your biggest mistake was not loving me.” — Nishan Panwar

179. “She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.” — Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

180. “Never love that which you cannot keep.” – Anonymous

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182. When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

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184. “Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.” — Marc & Angel

185. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” — Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

186. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

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

188. “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” — Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

189. “Ever since I met you my life’s been a song. A sad song, a love song with hate in between.” — Willie and Lukas Nelson, “Sound of Your Memory”

190. “My mouth says, “I’m ok.” My fingers text, “I’m fine.” My heart says, “I’m broken.” – Unknown

191. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”- Jean de La Fontaine

192. “Since you’ve gone I’ve been lost without a trace. I dream at night, I can only see your face.” — The Police, “Every Breath You Take”

193. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems

194. “God is closest to those with broken hearts.” – Jewish Proverb

195. “It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.” — Gilbert Parker

196. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”― Tupac Shakur

197. “Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else’s brokenness.” – Munia Kahn

198. “Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.” –

199. “Why’d you have to say goodbye? Look what you’ve done to me. I can’t stop these tears from fallin’ from my eyes.” — Mary J. Blige, “I’m Goin’ Down”

200. “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

201. “If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again.”– Amelie Chance

202. “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.” – Seneca

203. “I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.” – Charlotte Eriksson

204. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”― Nicholas Sparks

205. “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

206. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

207. “Just because I laugh a lot doesn’t mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face every day doesn’t mean that something is not bothering me. It’s just that I choose to move on with the negatives in my life and keep my head up instead of dwelling on the past.” – Unknown

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

209. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

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211. “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner, Soldier’s Pay

212. I’ve been on the floor and I’ve been heartbroken. I didn’t know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

213. “It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.” –Angelina Jolie

214. “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

215. Sometimes… Sometimes our hearts…crack a little.

216. “Broken hearts hurt but they will make you strong.” – Unknown

217. “I thought when love for you died, I should die. Its dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.” – Rupert Brooke

218. “My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.” — Pablo Neruda

219. “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”–Christopher Columbus

220. “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

221. “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Unknown

222. “And it only hurts when I'm breathing. My heart only breaks when it's beating. My dreams only die when I'm dreaming.So, I hold my breath — to forget.” — Shania Twain, “Up!”

223. “Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.” — Phyllis McGinley

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

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

227. I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.

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

229. “It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.” – Gabrielle Zevin

230. I’m not supposed to miss you, I’m not supposed to care.

231. “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

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233. “Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” – Dalai Lama

234. “One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” – B. Nicole

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

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

237. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” – Criss Jami

238. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmunson

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

240. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” — Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

241. It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.

242. I know what it’s like to have a broken heart. I know what it’s like to feel pain: When my songs don’t become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

243. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

244. “When you have your heartbroken for the first time, you gain depth. – Sienna Miller

245. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”― Violeta Parra

246. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson, 809

247. You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.

248. “I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.” ― Marguerite Duras

249. What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

250. I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

251. Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.

252. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

253. “Moving on isn’t about not loving someone anymore and forgetting them. It’s about having the strength to say I still love you, but you’re not worth this pain.” – Ritu Ghatourey

254. “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.” – Terry Pratchett

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

256. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping-stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johny Cash

257. “Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.” — Frank Ocean

258. The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.

259. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

260. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran

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

262. “Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.” — Adele, “Someone Like You”

263. “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever ‘the old’ means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

265. No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

266. Oh you broke my heart. I told you I was weak for love, but then you went around, and did what you wanted to do, and now I'm crying. — Miley Cyrus, "FU"

267. Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?

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

269. “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

270. Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.

271. “Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” — Euripides, Herakles

272. “It turns out freedom ain't nothin' but missin' you. Wishin' I'd realized what I had when you were mine.” — Taylor Swift, “Back to December”

273. “The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” – T.E. Kalem

274. “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

275. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.

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

277. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” ― Steve Maraboli

278. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

279. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

280. “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

281. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.” — Jodi Picoult

282. Never love that which you cannot keep

283. “Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.” ― Toba Beta

284. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

285. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley

286. Green Floral Illustration Spa Valentine's Day Facebook Post

287. Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.

288. “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? 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

289. Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

290. There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

291. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan

292. “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.

293. “The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” — Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays

294. “Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” – Ann Landers

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

296. “The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.” – Mary Kay Andrews

297. “If another girl steals your man, there’s no better revenge than letting her keep him. Real men can’t be stolen.” – Kid Cudi

298. “When love is real it doesn’t lie, cheat or make you feel unwanted. True love eases worries – it doesn’t create worried.” – Unknown

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

300. “A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” — T.E. Kalem

301. “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

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

303. Let's Get Your Ex Out of Your Head, Shall We?

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

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

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

307. Going Through a Breakup? Try the "No-Contact" Rule

308. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

309. “I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.” ― Britney Spears

310. I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you?

311. Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

312. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them … but still move on without them” — Mandy Hale

313. Only time can heal your broken heart.

314. Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything

315. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood

316. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson

317. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” —Hermann Hesse

318. “The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they belong, and never look back.” – Ena Snow

319. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

320. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt

321. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

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

323. “Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?” – J.C. Reed

324. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as if it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” — Meredith Taylor, Churning Water

325. “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

326. I wish I were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.

327. “Life is life a bicycle. To keep you balance you must keep moving.” –Albert Einstein

328. 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

329. “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

330. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

331. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost

332. “A broken heart does not mean you are broken. The crack is there to let the light in.” – Unknown

333. “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” ― Laura Kasischke

334. The heart will break, but broken live on.

335. “The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” – Alan Moore

336. There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.

337. “Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite — it means you feel it all more.” — Julie Johnson, Erasing Faith

338. “Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.” – Deepika Padukone

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

340. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber

341. “You didn’t break my heart; you freed it.” — Steve Maraboli

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

343. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.” — Charles Kingsley

344. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

345. Jewish Proverb "God is closest to those with broken hearts"

346. “Your experience of grief is powerful, yet so is your ability to love and heal.” – Unknown

347. “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

348. “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

349. Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one. Break their bones, they have 206 of those!

350. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken. Before the years can make it wise.” ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems

351. “Follow your own path and let people talk.” –Dante

352. “Don’t let the scars on your heart define the way you love.” – Laura Chouette

353. “You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.” – Truman Capote

354. Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else’s brokenness

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

356. “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

357. “Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.” – Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms

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

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

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

361. “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

362. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.

363. “Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!” – Steve Maraboli

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

365. “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

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

367. There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

368. “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 9

369. You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

370. “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

371. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”– Deborah Reber

372. “God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.”- Unknown

373. When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realize it’s about making the most of life.

374. No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

375. “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

376. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” – Mary Manin Morrissey

377. “Never let a bad person change your inner goodness.” – Karen Salmansohn

378. “You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.” — Jamie McGuire, Providence

379. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

380. “Back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.” — Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

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

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

383. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”- Mark Twain

384. Using Workplace Giving Programs During The Season Of Giving

385. “If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.” – Amit Ray

386. “Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.” — Miranda Kenneally

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

388. “Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you’re holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you’re lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.” – Kennedy Kasares

389. I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.

390. “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

391. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

392. “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

393. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

394. “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” – Laura Kasischke

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

396. “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

397. “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” – Alyson Noel

398. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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

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

401. “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

402. “Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite—it means you feel it all more.” ― Julie Johnson

403. ‘Hearts are breakable,’ Isabelle said. ‘And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.’

404. “Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”– Helen Hollick

405. “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

406. “Life goes on… with or without you.” – Faraaz Kazi

407. “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

408. “So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.” — Arianapoetess

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

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

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

412. “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

413. “You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.” – Drew Gerald

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

415. “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.” — Unknown

416. “When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.” – Unknown

417. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey

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

419. We only said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times. You go back to her, and I go back to black.” — Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black”

420. “The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

421. “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

422. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

423. “I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.” — Kate Winslet

424. “Note to heart: Don’t keep running back to the person you should be walking away from.” – Karen Salmansohn

425. “Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.” – Bryant McGill

426. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”– Steve Maraboli

427. Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

428. “Pain will leave you, when you let go.” – Unknown

429. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here

430. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” – Joel Osteen

431. “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” — Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

432. “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” — Jim Henson

433. “Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek

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

435. “Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.” – Toba Beta

436. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them, but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale

437. “Don’t waste your time looking back at what you lost. Move on, life is not meant to be traveled backwards.” – Unknown

438. Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?

439. “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

440. “He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.” — Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

441. “The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.” – Allen Klein

442. Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

443. Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

444. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

445. “I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” – Christie Brinkley

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

447. “Never love with all your heart, it only ends in aching.” – Countee Cullen

448. “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

449. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” ― Ranata Suzuki

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