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.” – Oscar Wilde
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
“And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.” – Khadija Rupa
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” – Bess Myerson
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
“I wish I could turn back the clock. I’d find you sooner and love you longer.” – Unknown
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” – Federico Chini
“A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize He saved you from the wrong one.” – Unknown
“I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” – Terri Guillemets
“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.” – Unknown
“Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.” – Rita Stradling
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“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.” – Jerry Seinfeld
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“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
“Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt anymore, but my heart’s still chained.” – Unknown
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.” – Jodi Thomas
“Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” – Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
“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
“Sometimes you don’t realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.” – Unknown
“The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“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.” – Original
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
“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.” – Steve Maraboli
Classic Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” – Richard Wilbur
“I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth are fled: there is nothing left but a flat, unprofitable solitude.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
“No road is long with good company, but every mile is a trial when you’re heartbroken.” – Original
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…” – Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
“A heart that loves is always young but can feel old so quickly when it breaks.” – Anonymous
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sara Teasdale
“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
“The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.” – Shakieb Orgunwall
“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.” – Anonymous
“Love has no cure, but it can be patient and learn to endure.” – Anonymous
“I wear my heart on my sleeve but hide my broken pieces underneath.” – Original
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” – Plato
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.” – Anonymous
“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
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“A broken heart bleeds tears of love, longing for the time when it was whole.” – Original
“The flame of love is now just a cold ember, darkened by the absence of you.” – Original
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
“Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.” – Alessandra Torre
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” – Sienna Miller
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
“You’ll never know the true meaning of brokenness unless you have loved someone more than yourself.” – Anonymous
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.” – Maureen Duffy
“The scars left from a broken heart tell the story of love lost and lessons learned.” – Original
Uplifting Quotes
“Though the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
“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.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.” – Napoleon Hill
“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.” – Anonymous
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
“You can start anew each day.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“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
“Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” – Stephen R. Covey
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” – Anonymous
“When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.” – Kim Sowol
“The best way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“From the ashes of heartbreak, rise the phoenix of renewed dreams and aspirations.” – Original
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” – Steve Maraboli
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.” – Anonymous
“Scars show us where we’ve been, they do not dictate where we are going.” – David Rossi
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
Sad Quotes
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” – Mia Asher
“Hearts are made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“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.” – Washington Irving
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” – Nicholas Sparks
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.” – Charlotte Eriksson
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.” – Doug Coupland
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
“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.” – Kahlil Gibran
“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.” – James Baldwin
“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
“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” – Unknown
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke
“In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.” – Gilbert Parker
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
“I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.” – Mohsen El-Guindy
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” – Stelle Atwater
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“A broken heart bleeds tears.” – Steve Maraboli
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.” – Jodi Thomas
“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.” – Patti Roberts
Healing Quotes
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“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.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.” – Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“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
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke, Supernatural
“Your heart will mend. Your soul will heal. Have faith, for this too shall pass.” – Anonymous
“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” – Henny Youngman
“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
“Though the wound is deep, the heart will eventually heal.” – Anonymous
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
“The heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back stronger.” – Anonymous
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” – Akshay Dubey
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” – Anonymous
“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
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good sleep.” – Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
“Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.” – Izumi Shikibu
“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.” – Nikki Rowe
“However long the night, the dawn will break.” – African Proverb
“Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta
“You were my lesson. I had to learn. I was your fortress. You had to burn.” – Anonymous
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Anonymous
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Love will come to you when it’s ready, not necessarily when you are.” – Danielle Shorr
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” – Cormac McCarthy
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
“Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also give yourself permission to let it heal.” – Nikki Rowe
Empowering Quotes
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” — Nicholas Sparks
“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.” — Eric Hoffer
“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.” — Rumi
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” — Lord Byron
“You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.” — Douglas Booth
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe
“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” — Haruki Murakami
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi
“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” — T.E. Kalem
“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
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
“Tears are words that need to be written.” — Paulo Coelho
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
“The best way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.” — Unknown
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” — Violeta Parra
“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” — Unknown
“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” — Sufi Epigram
“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.” — Margaret Mitchell
“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
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” — Wizard of Oz
“You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.” — Mandy Hale
“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.” — Truman Capote
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” — Nicholas Sparks
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” — Margaret George
“You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.” — Ranata Suzuki
“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” — Miss Piggy
“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.” — Maya Angelou
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” — Paulo Coelho
Timeless Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” – Bess Myerson
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum, ‘The Wizard of Oz’
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” – Lord Byron
“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.” – George Bernard Shaw
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green, ‘An Abundance of Katherines’
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke, ‘Supernatural’
“I am not afraid to fall in love; I am afraid to fall for a heart that won’t be there to catch me.” – Anonymous
“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
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks, ‘At First Sight’
“It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.” – Anonymous
“No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” – Stelle Atwater
“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
“And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.” – Elizabeth Eulberg, ‘Prom & Prejudice’
“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.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.” – Jodi Thomas
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“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
“The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.” – Unkown
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore
“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.” – Junot Díaz
“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.” – Graham Greene
“And I said you would love me. We’re in the end now, darling.” – Don Mallich
“What’s broken can never be whole again, but it can be beautiful in its new form.” – Original
Celebrity Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.” – Edith Piaf
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” – Julia Roberts
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
“I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.” – Marguerite Duras
“Sometimes you’re left with only the kind of love that lingers, the ghost of a relationship that haunts you.” – Lang Leav
“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met.” – Anonymous
“The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
“A broken heart bleeds tears.” – Steve Maraboli
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“Hearts are not had as a gift, but hearts are earned.” – William Butler Yeats
“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.” – Patti Roberts
“You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.” – Unknown
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” – Eric Kripke
“In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.” – Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
“One of the cruelest things a person can do is to awaken someone’s love without the intention of truly loving them.” – Unknown
“You left and the world didn’t crumble. I owe the earth a pound of flesh.” – Rudy Francisco
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.” – Charlotte Eriksson
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
Literary Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde
“To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” — Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” — Dylan Thomas, And Death Shall Have No Dominion
“I have lost, and loved, and won, and cried myself to the person I am today.” — Charlotte Eriksson
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Khalil Gibran
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.” — William Butler Yeats, A Prayer for My Daughter
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” — L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” — Nicholas Sparks
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” — Richard Wilbur
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” — Rumi
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving
“A broken heart bleeds tears.” — Steve Maraboli
“The heart is a muscle; it needs exercise in breaking and mending.” — Anonymous
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” — Lamartine
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.” — Washington Irving
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” — Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” — John Green
“Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.” — Anonymous
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” — Carroll Bryant
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” — Miss Piggy
“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
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” — Ranata Suzuki
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” — Julia Roberts
“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.” — Jodi Thomas, Welcome to Harmony
“Love is a cruel master, it forces tears from the heart.” — Anonymous
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.
