118 Sad Broken Heart Quotes That Will Help You Feel Better

Nothing can be more painful and hurtful than heartbreak. It is hard to forget the memories, and the good, old times can haunt you every minute. But our list of broken heart quotes can help ease your pain and support you to move on in life. So, accept the reality at the earliest, focus more on self-love, do things that make you feel happy, and mend your heart. In this article, we have compiled a beautiful collection of 118 sad quotes about broken hearts that will help you recover. Scroll down for some insightful heartbroken quotes.

Quotes About Broken Hearts To Ease Your Pain and Sadness

Broken Heart Quotes About Grief

These end of relationship quotes can help you get out of the grieving phase and move on. It may not be easy or quick but you will be working towards positivity one word at a time.

1. “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” – Richard Bach
2. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you, and then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go forever.” – Aubrey Drake Graham
3. “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling in at night. I miss you like hell, come back my love.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” – Julia Roberts
5. “One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation.” – Ali Shaw
6. “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you will never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news.They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” – Anne Lamott
7. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” –  Violeta Parra
8. “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
9. “Every second of every day, I still love them, and I won’t believe they are dead until I see it for myself.” – Shannon A. Thompson
10. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye
11. “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki
12. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. The pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
13. “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” – Frank Baum
14. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” – Meredith Taylor
15. “Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives.” – Osayi Osar-Emokpae
16. “The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.” – Kellie Elmore
17. “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” – Henry Ward Beecher
18. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Kahlil Gibran
19. “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
20. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” –  Neil Gaiman
21. “I know she isn’t coming back, but I still think that she will. Nothing can make that go away. We figure out what death means when we’re born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.”– Lauren DeStefano
22. “The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” – Somerset Maughan
23. “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” – Terri Guillemets
24. “Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.” – Jojo Moyes
25. “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”- Ranata Suzuki
26. “It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.” – Michelle Zauner
27. “I feel I’ve lost every part of me…there’s nothing left but the parts I’ve given to you. I need you to hold those pieces together. Please don’t forget who I was…then…then there really will be nothing left.” – Cassandra Giovanni
28. “Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” – Paulo Coelho
29. “You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really feel the loss.” – Mandy Hale

Broken Heart Quotes About Regret

30. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
31. “Realized I gave my heart to someone that didn’t care at all and I found it crying in the corner.” – Mahmoud El Hallab
32. “There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.” – Ashley Lorenzana
33. “How do you love someone and just… Walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?” – Ranata Suzuki
34. “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.” – Unknown
35. “There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.” – Pearl Buck
36. “Maybe I should’ve listened to my head instead of my heart and gotten the hell away from you as fast as I could.” – Unknown
37. “I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
38. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” –  Mark Twain
39. “The saddest thing about getting your heart broken is always being afraid to ever love and trust someone like you did the first time. A broken heart is hard to heal once you’ve fallen so deep.” – Telisa McLaughlin
40. “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton Sheen
41. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
42. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
43. “The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.” – SumNan
44. “One of the hardest things to do in life is letting go of what you thought was real.” – Kathleen Aquino
45. “Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up.” – Patti Callahan Henry
46. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sydney J. Harris
47. “I can feel myself slowly fading from your mind.” – Hritwik Ghosh
48. “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
49. “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
50. “We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.” – Libba Bray
51. “Hearts live by being wounded.” – Oscar Wilde
52. “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” – Laura Kasischke
53. “You’re going to wake up one day and realize what you’ve done, and you’re going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.” – Jamie McGuire
54. “One day you’ll finally see, your biggest mistake was not loving me.” – Nishan Panwar
55. “I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.” – Marguerite Duras
56. “The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.” – Sanober Khan
57. “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
58. “You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone… gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.” – Ama H. Vanniarachchy
59. “Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” – David Grayson

Broken Heart Quotes About Moving On

Love hurts quotes can heal you one word at a time. You can find something relatable and it can start the process of healing that you need.

60. “You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.” – Ryan Phillippe
61. “Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you’re holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you’re lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.” – Kennedy Kasares
62. “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir
63. “People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” – Bill Cosby
64. “Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
65. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” –  Robert Frost
66. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
67. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Josh Jameson
68. “As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything.Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling.” – Marilyn Monroe
69. “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
70. “I loved him, every inch of his being, but I realized one day; if loving him meant losing me, then loving him was not enough anymore.” – Nikki Rowe
71. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.” – Denis Waitley
72. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.” – Tao Te Ching
73. “And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.” – Elizabeth Eulberg
74. “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Unknown
75. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
76. “Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
77. “Closure happens after you accept that letting go is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been.” –  Sylvester McNutt
78. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” –  Walter Anderson
79. “One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a breakup.” – Mandy Hale
80. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”– Nicholas Sparks
81. “Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.” – Terry Tempest Williams
82. “Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…” – Elizabeth Gilbert
83. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
84. “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
85. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
86. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
87. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
88. “You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – ​ Guy Finley
89. “What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”– Margaret Mitchell

Broken Heart Quotes About Friendship

90. “The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” – Heather Brewer
91. “Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” – Unknown

92. “Friends are people who make you laugh, who support and encourage you. Don’t feel sad if you lose a friendship that doesn’t do that.” – Catherine Pulsifer
93. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” – Nicole Richie
94. “The worst thing ever is seeing your best friend slowly replacing you with another friend.” – Unknown
95. “The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.” – Hector Hugh Munro
96. “Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.” –  Sean Covey
97. “Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.” – Frank Ocean
98. “No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you’re fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they’re the ones who teach you the most about yourself.” – Kate Hudson
99. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius
100. “Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as temporary happiness.” – Unknown
101. “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome
102. “I had acquaintances…but then they’d always start trying to get away, like they’d turned over some stone in my personality and found a poisonous snake.” –  Jason Schmidt
103. “It hurts me so bad whenever I recall all what you have done to me and I want to instantly leave you behind but am disappointed because I lack courage to run.” – Unknown
104. “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” – Unknown
105. “I used to know you the best and now I don’t even remember your name.” ― Mya Waechtler
106. “We laughed until we had to cry. And we loved right down to our last goodbye. We were the best.” – David Foster
107. “Man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a pal, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” – Joseph Roux
108. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” –William Blake
109. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”–  Aristotle
110. “Walk away from friendships that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you.” – Michelle Obama
111. “I understand it, but I don’t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers.” – Amy Plum
112. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
113. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together in exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley
114. “How strange is it, that after all that, we are strangers again?” – Lang Leav
115. “If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.” – Saint Augustine
116. “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave pain that is worse than the emptiness before they came.” – M. Montgomery
117. “When we have no reason to be happy, we often think that it is the end of ourselves. We often think we have no one in this world. It happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.” – Debolina
118. “It really hurts… When you lose the one who you thought was your best friend. It hurts when they ignore you, break promises and forget.” – Priyanka Dhar

Infographic: 5 Deeply Moving Quotes On Heartbreak By Celebrities

Heartbreak is often an inevitable consequence of desire and relationships, and no one is spared the pain of a broken heart — not even celebrities. Check out the infographic below to read and relate to some poignant broken-heart quotes by celebrities you know and love.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How can I express my broken heart?

There are several ways to express a broken heart. One of the most popular ways is writing poems, songs, or quotes for feeling broken.

Do broken hearts ever heal from quotes?

Broken hearts may not heal from quotes, but they may ease the pain and help you move forward. Moreover, quotes can help you express your pain as well. You can also read inspirational quotes after break up to inspire you to move forward in life.

How can broken heart quotes help you feel less alone in your heartbreak?

Yes, they can make you feel less lonely. These quotes show you that many people have felt the pain of a breakup, gone through the same heart-breaking emotions you are currently feeling, and come out happy on the other side.

Can reading broken heart quotes be therapeutic, and if so, how?

Yes, reading broken heart quotes can be therapeutic. They help you deal with your emotions and give you the courage and hope to move on.

Illustration: Sad Broken Heart Quotes That Will Help You Feel Better

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