Breakups are never easy. It takes a toll not only on your personal life but can also affect your mental health, work, and family relations. 

If you’re one to seek comfort in words, here are # of the best breakup quotes to help you get back on your feet, and move on.

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“Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” – Leo Buscaglia

“The people who are quick to walk away are the ones who never meant to stick around.” – Unknown

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

"Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser." – Drake

“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz

"Please don't be fooled by Adele. You'll never find someone like me." – Unknown

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened." – Dr. Seuss

“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.” – Omar Khayyam

“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates

"Thank you, next." – 'Thank U, Next’ by Ariana Grande

"Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs." – Miss Piggy

“I know my heart will never be the same, But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” Sara Evans

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something." – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – M. Kathleen Casey

"Starting today, I need to forget what's gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what's coming next." – Will Smith

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together" – Marilyn Monroe

“You don’t need those people. By stepping aside, they’ve done you a favor. Because what you’ve got left after the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts. Those are the über cool sparkle rocket mind-blowers we’re after. Those are the people worthy of your love.” Cheryl Strayed

"Love is unconditional. Relationships are not." – Grant Gudmundson

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.” Cheryl Strayed

"Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move on." – Unknown

"We have to be whole people to find whole love" – Cheryl Strayed

“A breakup is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave than risk hurting yourself trying to pick up all of the broken pieces.” – Unknown

“If someone does not care about losing you, then move on. There are many people out there that would die if it meant losing you.” –Unknown

"Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be." – Sonia Ricotti

"Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you." – Frank Ocean

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.” – Jodi Picoult

“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green

“One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Aubrey Drake Graham

"Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else." –Cheryl Strayed

If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door. – Jacki Wells Wunderlin

"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

"Inhale the future, exhale the past." – Unknown

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect. – Amit Kalantri

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." – Mark Twain

“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.” – Greg Behrendt

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” – Chinese Proverb

“You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them … but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale

"Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows." – Unknown

“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.” – Barney Stinson

“Hearts live by being wounded.” – Oscar Wilde

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one." – Unknown

"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." – Paulo Coelho

“The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.” – Nora Ephron

“In some relationships there comes a time when the two people just outgrow each other.” – Unknown

"The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet." – Mohadesa Najumi

"I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is." – Hannah Brown

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

"Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away." – Unknown

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.” – Romain Rolland

"I cannot play myself again/I should just be my own best friend" – Amy Winehouse

“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

"Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart." – Cassandra Clare

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. – Guy Finley

“If you have to force it, it’s not for you. Love should come with ease, freedom and space to expand.” – Alex Elle

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.” – Stephanie Klein

“Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don’t have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren’t that person anymore.” – Unknown

"One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones." – Turcois Ominek

“Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.” – Harriet Evans

“You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that.” – Heather Havrilesky

“Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.” – Steve Maraboli

“No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi

"Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go." – Nikita Gill

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” – C. Joybell C.

"Don't be afraid to start over. It’s a brand new opportunity to rebuild what you truly want." – Unknown

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts

"If someone is stupid enough to walk away from you, be smart enough to let them go." – Unknown

“Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma

"The way they leave tells you everything." – Rupi Kaur

“I missed you until I realized there was never really anything to miss but the peace I felt before I knew you” – R. H. Sin

“Two people who break up could never be friends. If they can stay friends, then it means that they are still in love or that they never were.” – Unknown

 "In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything–what a waste!” – Professor Perlman, from ‘Call Me By Your Name’

“If you start to miss me, remember I didn’t walk away. You let me go.” – Unknown

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

"Don't be sorry. I trusted you. My fault, not yours." – Alfred Kubin

“If you lost it, it’s because you’re meant to find something better. Trust, let go, and make room for what’s coming.” – Mandy Hale

“A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.” – Unknown

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.” – Jennifer Weiner

Breaking up is just like having the worst nightmare after having the best dream. – Unknown

“Mate, if you choose to lock your heart away, you lose it forever.” – Jack Sparrow, from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean”

“You don’t need closure. You just need to give yourself permission to move on." —Steve Harvey

“Let’s hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughter even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.” – Mansi Soni

“Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.” – Unknown

“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

“Whatever life gives you, even if it hurts, just be strong and act like the way you always do. Because strong walls shake but never collapse.” Unknown

’Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.” – Tryon Edwards

“So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri 

90 Breakup Quotes To Help You Heal

Breakup Quotes

90 Breakup Quotes To Help You Heal

Breakup Quotes

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