Experiencing a broken heart is one of life’s most profound and painful challenges. When love shatters, it leaves behind fragments that seem impossible to mend, often leading to a deep sense of sorrow and confusion. Each ache and tear is a testament to the depth of the emotions we once felt and the complexity of moving on. This collection of broken heart quotes offers solace and understanding for those navigating the tumultuous waters of heartache. Through these words, may you find a reflection of your own pain, a touch of comfort, and a glimmer of hope for healing and new beginnings.
Broken Heart Quotes
“The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
“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, the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton Sheen
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.” – W.B. Yeats
“A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.”
“Don’t let the scars on your heart define the love you deserve.”
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.”
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.”
“Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one who broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” – Andrea Gibson
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“You can’t keep dancing with the devil and wonder why you’re still in hell.”
“A broken heart bleeds tears.”
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“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
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.”
“Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.”
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
“A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. It takes spells of aching and gives you long intervals of dullness and forbears with you as long as it can.” – L.M. Montgomery
“Losing you was like losing the key to my heart.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire
“The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” – T.E. Kalem
“I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” – Missy Altijd
“No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
“You broke my heart, but I still love you with all the pieces.”
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
“I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” – Bess Myerson
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
“A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.”
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.”
“The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
“Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.”
“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.” – James Patterson
“My heart is breaking as I’m writing this, but I’m sorry, I’m just not the same anymore.”
“The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.”
“It’s funny how a person can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
“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.”
“And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.”
“Sometimes, we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves, breaks our hearts even more.”
“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.” – Truman Capote
“Sometimes the only way to heal a broken heart is to allow love to enter again.”
“You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.” – Ashleyy
“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.” – Edith Piaf
Sad Quotes
“You never realize how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
“Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” – Anonymous
“A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful—five years later, when you can look at the guy and laugh.” – Phyllis Battelle
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – G.K. Chesterton
“You can’t keep dancing with the devil and wonder why you’re still in hell.”
“Breaking up. It’s 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
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
“When it comes to love, it’s not the fall that hurts. It’s the impact.”
“My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I miss you.”
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Samuel Butler
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”
“Sometimes the person you want most is the person you’re best without.”
“I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.”
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.”
“Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” – Cassandra Clare
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.”
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho
“You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp
“The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.”
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you, then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go.”
“I will wait for you till the day I can forget you or till the day you realize you cannot forget me.”
“Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” – Mia Asher
“It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.”
“I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment so you can understand how much you hurt me.”
