Heartache is one of life’s most challenging experiences. When love shatters, it leaves a trail of emotions—pain, longing, and sometimes a glimmer of hope. It’s in these fragile moments that words can offer comfort and understanding.
This collection of broken heart quotes aims to touch those tender spots, reminding us that we’re not alone. These quotes can help mend your soul, one word at a time.
Heartfelt Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.”
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.”
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.”
“A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize He saved you from the wrong one.”
“I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.”
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven, for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”
“Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You’ve got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.”
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.”
“Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt anymore, but my heart’s still chained.”
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”
“Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.”
“The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
“Every time we fall in love, we give the world a little piece of our heart. If they don’t handle it with care, it’s their loss, not ours.”
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
Classic Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
“I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth are fled: there is nothing left but a flat, unprofitable solitude.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“No road is long with good company, but every mile is a trial when you’re heartbroken.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“A heart that loves is always young but can feel old so quickly when it breaks.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”
“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.”
“The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.”
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven, for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”
“Love has no cure, but it can be patient and learn to endure.”
“I wear my heart on my sleeve but hide my broken pieces underneath.”
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.”
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears of love, longing for the time when it was whole.”
“The flame of love is now just a cold ember, darkened by the absence of you.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
“Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.”
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
“You’ll never know the true meaning of brokenness unless you have loved someone more than yourself.”
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”
“The scars left from a broken heart tell the story of love lost and lessons learned.”
Uplifting Quotes
“Though the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“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.”
“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“You can start anew each day.”
“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.”
“Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.”
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.”
“When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.”
“The best way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
“From the ashes of heartbreak, rise the phoenix of renewed dreams and aspirations.”
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.”
“Scars show us where we’ve been, they do not dictate where we are going.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
Sad Quotes
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.”
“Hearts are made to be broken.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
“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.”
“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
“In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
“It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.”
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”
“I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.”
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”
“Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
Healing Quotes
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.”
“You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.”
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
“Your heart will mend. Your soul will heal. Have faith, for this too shall pass.”
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
“Though the wound is deep, the heart will eventually heal.”
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.”
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
“The heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back stronger.”
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.”
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good sleep.”
“Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.”
“I have loved and I have lost and I’m starting to believe; it’s okay. Sometimes what we ‘think’ is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly ‘meant’ for us.”
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
“Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.”
“You were my lesson. I had to learn. I was your fortress. You had to burn.”
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“Love will come to you when it’s ready, not necessarily when you are.”
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
“Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also give yourself permission to let it heal.”
Empowering Quotes
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.”
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”
“You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.”
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
“The best way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.”
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.”
“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.”
“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. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.”
“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
“You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.”
“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.”
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
Timeless Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned; nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness, and the beginning of peace.”
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
“I am not afraid to fall in love; I am afraid to fall for a heart that won’t be there to catch me.”
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.”
“No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.”
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.”
“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.”
“And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.”
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’re gonna see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
“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.”
“The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.”
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. Just make sure you don’t get pregnant. Some people, when they break up with you, they get to this rule: It will take you half the amount of time you were together to get over them.”
“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
“And I said you would love me. We’re in the end now, darling.”
“What’s broken can never be whole again, but it can be beautiful in its new form.”
Celebrity Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.”
“Sometimes you’re left with only the kind of love that lingers, the ghost of a relationship that haunts you.”
“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.”
“The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
“Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned.”
“Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
“You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.”
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
“In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
“One of the cruelest things a person can do is to awaken someone’s love without the intention of truly loving them.”
“You left and the world didn’t crumble. I owe the earth a pound of flesh.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Literary Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
“I have lost, and loved, and won, and cried myself to the person I am today.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“The heart is a muscle; it needs exercise in breaking and mending.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.”
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“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.”
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
“You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.”
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.”
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.”
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”
“Love is a cruel master, it forces tears from the heart.”
Conclusion
Heartbreak is something most of us experience at some point. The quotes we’ve shared can help you feel less alone and maybe even find some comfort in tough times. Each quote captures the deep emotions that come with a broken heart, offering words that can speak to your sadness, frustration, and hope.
While these quotes can’t heal a broken heart, they can provide a sense of understanding and connection. Reading these words can remind you that others have felt the same pain and that it is possible to move forward. Keep these quotes close when you need a few words to help you through.
