Best Heartbreak Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“How preposterous and ruthless time is; just a slight hesitation, and it will strip your life down. You will be left heartbroken, and there will be no turning back.”

“…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.”

“As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.”

“Sorry if I have a hard time trusting. When you give everything you have to someone and it isn’t valued, something inside you dies and that’s what happened to my ability to trust.”

“You don’t miss them —”

“Her silence told me more than a thousand confessions—love doesn’t always scream, sometimes it whispers.”

“I told myself I could walk away. I just didn’t realize how much of me would stay with you.”

“What value does love hold if you can't risk taking a knife to the heart?”

“If they come back today and say, 'let's try again, but differently' - what would you answer?”

“m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe”

“I bet on your staying, but I lost the wager before it even began… you left too soon.”

“I loved you unconditionally — for you, not for anything else.”

“You never really understood me.”

“The love I know isn’t drowning together in water and calling the suffocation poetry.”

“In reality I was nothing more than a pair of lips, you only cared about me when you were gripping on my hips”

“In reality I was nothing more than a set of lips,”

“We chose wisdom over want. We chose healing over history. We chose separate futures over shared wreckage. And it feels like dying.”

“Staying wasn’t declarations or grand gestures.”

“I pour myself one more drink and go outside for one more cigarette. I wonder where she is now - I imagine her doing her long night-time skincare routine or getting a taxi home or doing an impassioned rant in a pub somewhere with her third glass of wine in her hand. And then I say goodbye to her. I wash up the glasses and remember the ongoing dispute we had about how to stack things on the drying rack. I say goodbye. I go upstairs to bed and I remember when she first came here, how strange it was to wake up next to her in my childhood bedroom. I say goodbye. And it feels okay. I say all my goodbyes, ready to no doubt meet her tomorrow to say goodbye all over again.”

“you were like water”

“a sorrowful soul placed in a constant state of mourning”

“We thought we were dying… but love had other plans.”

“What's the difference?" You ask me”

“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.”

“Love can make people want to grip on to each other so tight that they have to pull apart before they hurt each other anymore”

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

“I know my heart will never be the same”

“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.”

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”

“Because you let our love just fall apart”

“I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.”

“There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.”

“I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.”

“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”

“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”

“Thought I couldn't live without you”

“Don't waste time thinking about them. If they walked away from your love, they don't deserve your pain.”

“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.”

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

“One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.”

“Don't be ridiculous,' said Maya, 'You can't fail at a relationship. That's like getting off of a roller coaster and saying you failed because the ride is over. Things end. That doesn't mean the experience wasn't worth it.”

“You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.”

“He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.”

“Just because someone did not have the ability, the capacity, or the willingness to love us, has nothing to do with our lovability.”

“With Every Breath We Take”

“With Each Breath We Take”

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

“I envisioned it all:”

“It's normal to feel lost in this life, what's tragic is losing the will to keep fighting.”

“Broken hearts still beat, and sometimes it sounds like thunder.”

“I swear, I loved you less yesterday. Why, then, are you trying to take everything away from me today? Do you know what it's cost me, this fresh hope? I've paid for it with a life.”

“Since that day, night had been his only companion. It stayed with him—bringing its cold, its silence, its shadows and memories.”

“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?”

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that 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”

“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.”

“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!”

“There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.”

“I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.”

“It was such a small thing. Just a stranger on the internet, sending her a frog. But somehow, it felt like the first step toward something better.”

“I cannot keep doing this. I don’t want to be something you hide away.”

“Maybe love wasn’t always loud and obvious. Maybe sometimes it crept up quietly, disguised as laughter and late-night talks and a friend who never let go.”

“It wasn’t a rush of infatuation. This was quieter. Warmer. Safe.”

“Stepping into something new. Something that, for the first time in a long while, felt like hope.”

“I can be a better boyfriend than him.”

“Honey pie. If you just wait with me until the sunrise a whole new day will rise along with it. A whole new you wanting to reach the other side because things might seem bad for now, but there is so much more to live for than not because your story it's not finished, so neither is mine.”

“What’s plan B?” "I don’t know sir I’m still working on plan A.”

“Mendelevium was discovered and named during the Cold War era so the scientists who discovered it had to convince the U.S. government to allow their proposal to name the element for Dmitri Mendeleev, who was a Russian scientist. Since he was known as the father of the periodic table, the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry approved the use of his name for element 101.”

“I have been poisoned in your love and now I need antidote Jacqueline.L.J! <3”

“Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.”

“Paul wasn’t too sure about a half nibbled peanut, quite some parting gift, he thought.”

“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.”

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”

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

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“... a heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same.”

“Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedded on magic in the month of June. There was a place where all the sun went glistening in your hair, and from the hill we could have put a finger on a star. Where is the day that melted into one rich noise? Where the music of your flesh, the rhyme of your teeth, the dainty languor of your legs, your small firm arms, your slender fingers, to be bitten like an apple, and the little cherry-teats of your white breasts? And where are all the tiny wires of finespun maidenhair? Quick are the mouths of earth, and quick the teeth that fed upon this loveliness. You who were made for music, will hear music no more: in your dark house the winds are silent. Ghost, ghost, come back from that marriage that we did not foresee, return not into life, but into magic, where we have never died, into the enchanted wood, where we still life, strewn on the grass. Come up into the hills, O my young love: return. O lost, and by the wind grieved ghost, come back again.”

“...what happens when you return”

“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”

“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”

“It’s not the strength that keeps a swimmer from drowning… it’s calm.”

“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person's actions will tell you everything you need to know. Love yourself enough to say goodbye to those who don't make time for you or don't know how to love you back. Let go of what hurts, even if it hurts to let go." ~ Jennifer Green”

“It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.”

“The day breaks not: it is my heart.”

“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,”

“I write what I love.”

“MISERABLE”

“funny how our hearts”

“my dear, I have nothing to say.”

“If I can stop one Heart from breaking,”

“But I was young”

“the saddest thing is to be”

“you”

“It was not your love that lacked intensity, it was the person that lacked quality.”

“No one ever tells you how much a heartbreak physically hurts. How it literally feels like you've been kicked down the stairs. How you can't swallow. How every muscle aches. How your heart lurches inside you like it's been poisoned. Nobody tells you that.”

“Morning breath here. ‘A dirty mouth you say,’ clean it up with Orbit.” Maya chuckled. “Unless you have gum, I’m not letting you near me.” She reached for a pillow and plopped it over her face.”

“I don’t want to hear it. Go back to Sammy and get your platter of gonorrhea with a heaping side order of chlamydia. It’s free. Please leave.”

“Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.”