Breakups Quotes

You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she’s gone, I know even more.

~ A.s. King

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

~ Abiola Abrams

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.

~ Andrea Portes

I wanted you mine. I wanted me yours.

~ Lori Jenessa Nelson

My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.

~ Heather Demetrios

You told me how much you hate me when yesterday you told me how much you love me, what happen?

~ Kenneth C. Agudo

I shoved him off the snowmobile. He landed on his back in the snow. Love is a brat, you think? No, love id fine. You are the brat, you spoiled, rotten brat!

~ Rachel Vail

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and painYou never know when it will end, don’t let a moment pass in vain…In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained…

~ Mehek Bassi

The faster you search for a new partner, the faster you will get over your break-up blues…. Love is nothing more than an illusion.

~ Aman Jassal

Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?

~ Donna Lynn Hope

What if I were to tell you the game’s been rigged, that I was destined to win from the very beginning? To be clear: Winning is subjective. For the record: I win by losing, by avoiding the confusion of possibility, the sheer terror of potential. To make a long story short: I win when I lose and I lose by running, by pushing you away.

~ Kris Kidd

I love you. Let's get this over with.

~ Kris Kidd

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.

~ Laura Dave

I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.

~ Mary E. Pearson

There’s something so beautiful about people who are heartbroken; they think about how they’re feeling much more. I think when you’re happy and when you’re in love, you don’t need to think about it, it’s just there. Love is one of those things that is so simple, you don’t need to think about it when it’s good, you only need to think about it when it’s bad, so when music is all that you have and you’re lonely or you’re missing someone and you write a song that says exactly how you feel, there is sort of a gratification you get from that, it almost helps you move on.

~ Taylor Swift

That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.

~ Mallika Nawal

My mother calls it the pretty hate.It comes on you like a fever when someone you love up and leaves you with nothing but silence. You turn the hate on yourself as you cannibalize your heart while the rage burns through you and polishes your desperation into a diamond. It is one of the cruelest things in the world to do to another human being.Don’t do that.

~ Ava Ayers

And you left your mark on me...With the destruction of us, finally, we became no one.

~ Nadège Richards

And I watched the first man I ever kissed walk away from me forever. My heart full of nothing but regret, my brain full of nothing but reassurance that I was making the right choice, and my voice, completely void of any will to call him back.

~ Molli Fields

Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone doesn’t mean they deserve it.

~ Steve Maraboli

All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

~ Mordecai Richler

A year of life spent with someone you love feels like a lifetime. Someone destroys that love it feels like a lifetime is gone. Why do people want to take lifetimes away?

~ Kensley Hagan

It was all I could do not to fall on my knees and weep like the bastard she always said I was, and I was a breath away from begging her to run away with me. I can’t believe I’m admitting this on tape—I was standing at that table, she hit me with that look of hers, and I swear to God all I wanted to do was grab her hand, press it into my heart and say, “Let’s get the hell out of here.” I was even willing to ride the 6 all the way to Houston Street. No kidding, I was going to take the subway to prove my love. And if she said no, I was going to kidnap her until she agreed to stay.

~ Tiffanie Debartolo

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

~ Jodi Picoult

It's never over till it's really over in your mind...

~ Sandhya Jane

There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go? Hide or shine?

~ Ava Ayers

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

~ Alafia Stewart

All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling right then…if we laid it all out for one another…we might not like the way the words strung together. Or the way fear and hope and bitterness and love mashed up into one big mess in the pits of our stomachs.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

And what do you want?”I almost choked. “How could you even ask me that, Henry?”He sighed. “Because I’m thousands of miles away. Because I Skyped into your living room late one night and there’s a dude sitting next to you in the dark. Because Thanet tells me things. And Tennyson sent me a picture of you in a dress that looks like lingerie.”“It’s not that bad,” I said.“I didn’t say it was bad, Meg. It’s about a million miles from bad.” His voice was breaking with exasperation. “Things are crazy here, and I’m questioning everything.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Henry drew a shaky breath. “Do me a favor, Meg.”“Anything,” I whispered.“Don’t fall for Quinn O’Neill. If you’re going to do this thing with him…go to this dance, don’t fall for him.”“Never,” I said. “I promise.”“Because I’m all filled up on sad right now.” He sniffed again and I could tell he was more in control. “And you can’t ask me to sit by and watch you get all caught up in this guy. I can’t handle that—thinking he swept you off your feet because he bathed in body spray and dressed up.” His voice sounded rough. “I know you think I’m being funny right now, but I’m completely serious. Don’t make me watch that happen.”“You know my heart,” I said. “It’s yours.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

No baby, you didn't hurt me. You wrecked me. Know the difference.

~ J.a. Anum

We left dents on each other. Mine was in her heart, and hers was on my car.

~ J.a. Anum

I loved Trevor wholly. In all the good ways that made me feel alive and special and important. But also, in the bad ways. The ways that shut me off from others and left me alone with my pain. The ways that had me keep secrets. I loved Trevor in all the ways that I thought mattered, even though I knew that I didn’t.

~ Steph Campbell

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

~ Sarah Mclachlan

True love has a habit of coming back.

~ Turcois Ominek

Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?”“Oh, son. How could you ask a man who used to play the blues a question like that?”“How long does it take to go away?”“A broken heart?”“Yeah.”“There’s no precise formula, Sammy.”“Just give me an estimate.”“A good rule of thumb is at least half the time that you were in love. Or twice the time. It all just depends.

~ Zack Love

One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.

~ Turcois Ominek