Love can be a beautiful, powerful force, but sometimes it fades. When hearts drift apart, words can offer comfort and understanding. Quotes about falling out of love capture the raw emotions of letting go.
These quotes may bring clarity or solace, helping you navigate the painful process of moving on. Let the wisdom of others guide you through this journey, offering gentle reminders that you are not alone in your feelings.
Heartfelt Falling out of Love Quotes
“The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up.” – Anonymous
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.” – Charlotte Eriksson
“We loved with a love that was more than love, but time has shown us that even the strongest hearts can fall apart.” – Edgar Allan Poe, adapted
“Sometimes, the end of love is a silent goodbye that only the heart hears.” – Original
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
“The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.” – Anonymous
“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” – Aphra Behn
“The one who was once your reason to smile can suddenly be the reason for your tears.” – Original
“It’s heartbreaking how love can be so cruel, and yet we keep hoping for its magic.” – Original
“You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale
“Even the sun sets in paradise.” – Maroon 5
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine
“When love is gone, why does it pretend to still be there? It feels like a phantom limb.” – Original
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
“The flame of love can slowly fade, but the memory of its warmth lingers forever.” – Original
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” – Alysha Speer
“The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.” – Anonymous
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” – Nicholas Sparks
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet; when it fades, even wise words become tears.” – Original
“The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.” – Astrid Alauda
“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
“Loving someone who no longer loves you is like hugging a cactus; the tighter you hold on, the more it hurts.” – Original
“If love leaves you broken, let the pieces be the start of something new.” – Original
“Sometimes, there is no next time, no timeouts, no second chances; sometimes it’s now or never.” – Alan Bennett
Quotes on Coping with Love Disillusionment
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
“The saddest thing about love, is not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
“Sometimes you have to accept that good things come to an end so that better things can begin.” – Anonymous
“To fall out of love is to see a reflection of who we were in the shattered pieces of a broken mirror.” – Original Author
“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
“Losing him was like having the ground disappear from under my feet.” – Anonymous
“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.” – Romain Rolland
“If someone can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who left.” – Anonymous
“It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them – and they simply don’t need you.” – Paula Hawkins
“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” – Alysha Speer
“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do, and often do, much, much better.” – Coco J. Ginger
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” – Anaïs Nin
“There comes a point when it’s better to let go and move on, than to hold on and hurt more.” – Original Author
“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” – Aphra Behn
“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
“Love is a game that two can play and both win or both lose.” – Eva Gabor
“There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” – Jean Anouilh
“The flame of love is now just a cold spark in the memory of what once was.” – Original Author
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“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
“If we must part forever, give me but one kind word to think upon, and please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.” – Thomas Otway
“You may have had my heart once, but you lost your chance to keep it.” – Original Author
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.” – Iris Murdoch
Introspective Quotes on Love Dissolution
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.” – Aphra Behn
“One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is to stop loving someone because they’ve stopped loving you.” – Unknown
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something.” – Anonymous
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.” – Osho
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.” – Nicholas Sparks
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“And the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – The Beatles
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
“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
“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton J. Sheen
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
“The hardest part of letting go is realizing the other person already has.” – Anonymous
“Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.” – Cecily von Ziegesar
Inspirational Quotes for Those Falling out of Love
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine
“You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” – Anonymous
“Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.” – Nikita Gill
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” – William Shakespeare
“The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.” – Poets of the Fall
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
“Falling out of love is like losing a tooth; it’s only by the empty socket that you can see your old, even smile.” – Anonymous
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi Proverb
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.” – Kahlil Gibran
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“If someone doesn’t care to lose you, move on. There are those who will mirror your love.” – Original Thought
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
“Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” – Anonymous
“I never wanted but your heart—that gone, you have nothing more to give.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.” – Kim Sowol
“You are the author of your own story; make sure the ending is worth it.” – Original Thought
“Sometimes, the one you wanted most is the one you’re best without.” – Anonymous
“When love is over, there’s still the memory left behind, and that makes the heart grow stronger.” – Original Thought
Powerful Break-Up Quotes for Healing
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.” – David J. Wolpe
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.” – Marilyn Peterson
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
“You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone.” – The Minimalists
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically.” – Joel Osteen
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
“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
“If someone doesn’t fight to keep you, never fight yourself to stay.” – Anonymous
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.” – The Wonder Years
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“Some things break your heart but fix your vision.” – Unknown
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
“We may love the wrong person, cry for the wrong person, but one thing is for sure: mistakes help us find the right person.” – Unknown
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay
Empowering Quotes for Moving on from Love
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“When you leave behind a broken relationship, it’s like shedding old skin. It might sting, but it’s a necessary step to grow.” – Unknown
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“You are strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.” – Unknown
“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
“Grieve for a while if you must, but don’t allow your grief to define you.” – Anonymous
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown
“The best way to heal a broken heart is to give God all the pieces.” – Unknown
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. To be free, we must learn how to let go.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it.” – Anna Taylor
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Michael McMillan
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“You’re not a sad story; you’re a stepping stone to greater things.” – Unknown
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – Robert Brault
“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
“When it’s time to move on, don’t look back. Your future is ahead of you, not behind you.” – Anonymous
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho
In Conclusion
Love can sometimes fade, leaving behind feelings of loss and confusion. The quotes in our list capture the bittersweet moments of falling out of love. They offer comfort and reminders that it’s okay to move on and grow from the experience.
These quotes might help you find the words for what you’re feeling or provide a sense of understanding and support. Love is complex, and falling out of it is part of the human experience. Reflect on these quotes, and know that you’re not alone in your journey.
