Heartbreak is one of the most painful experiences we endure, leaving us feeling lost and vulnerable.
This collection of heartbreak quotes offers comfort and understanding during those difficult times.
When words fail, these quotes can express the emotions you’re struggling to put into words and remind you that you’re not alone in your pain.
They focus on the journey of healing from heartbreak, finding strength in the face of emotional wounds, and learning to love again.
Heartbreak may feel unbearable, but these quotes can help you rediscover hope.
Whether you are experiencing the end of a relationship or dealing with unrequited love, these powerful words provide solace, healing, and a reminder that while heartbreak is tough, it can also lead to personal growth.
Healing Words for a Broken Heart
The heart was made to be broken — Oscar Wilde
Sometimes, the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them — Fulton Sheen
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever — Carroll Bryant
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful — Bess Myerson
Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile
It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep — Margaret George
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together — Marilyn Monroe
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it — Henny Youngman
The heart will break, but broken live on — Lord Byron
A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize He saved you from the wrong one
It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on
The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten
Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable — L. Frank Baum
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option — Mark Twain
You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better
I wish I were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts
Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars
One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else
Finding Strength Through Heartbreak
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
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard
Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget
When you love someone, and you have to let them go, there will always be that small part of you that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?”
Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned
Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather learning to start over
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces
You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them
The heart was made to be broken
I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life
The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation — Khalil Gibran
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime
Sometimes you have to forget what you want to remember what you deserve
I’m not saying it’s going to be easy, I’m saying it’s going to be worth it
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain
Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares
Heartbreak Hurts, But These Quotes Heal
The hottest love has the coldest end — Socrates
A broken heart bleeds tears
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too
You broke my heart but I still love you with all the pieces
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional
The best way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces
It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it
The worst feeling in the world is knowing you’ve been used and lied to
Don’t let the scars on your heart define the rest of your life
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day
When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth
Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart
You don’t die from a broken heart… you only wish you did
Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope
Transforming Heartbreak Into Hope
Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like hugging a cactus, the tighter you hold on, the more it hurts
Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart
If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream
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?
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love
If you haven’t broken down, you probably aren’t leading with your heart
It is better to have your heart broken once by walking away than to stay and have it broken over and over again
Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is like hugging a cactus; the tighter you hold on, the more it hurts
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey
When love is real, it finds a way
Hearts are made to be broken
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god
Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned
The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new
The only whole heart is a broken heart
What happens when people open their hearts? They get better
I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore
When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air
Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned
Embracing the Lessons from Heartbreak
I thought I was stronger than a broken heart. But I was wrong
My heart is fragile, just like glass. One touch could break it into a million pieces
Even when I try to forget you, my heart continues to miss you
A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities
You were my dream, and now I feel like I’ll never sleep again
A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along
I gave you the best of me
I’m proud of my heart. It’s been played, cheated, and broken, but somehow it still works
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did
I don’t want to cry, but the tears come anyway
How can you forget the day your heart is shattered?
Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing
When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source — Anais Nin
Hearts don’t break evenly
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go
You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion