A breakup can feel like the world is ending. It is not. These breakup quotes come from writers who lived through heartbreak and made it out the other side. Save the ones that help. Read them when you need to.
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More topics ›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
The heart was made to be broken.— Oscar Wilde
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.— Dr. Seuss
You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.— Unknown
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 truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.— Steve Maraboli
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.— Marilyn Monroe
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.— L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Pain demands to be felt.— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.— Alfred Lord Tennyson
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. What a stupid lamb.— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.— Madeleine L'Engle
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.— Bruce Lee
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
The hottest love has the coldest end.— Socrates
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.— Oscar Wilde
You have to be brave enough to let go of who you were before so you can become who you are meant to be.— Unknown
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we are settling for.— Mandy Hale
One day, you will look back and you will see that all along, you were blooming.— Morgan Harper Nichols
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.— Aristotle
Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.— Unknown
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
The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.— Marcus Aurelius
What is meant to be will always find its way.— Trisha Yearwood
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.— Tori Amos
The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.— Isak Dinesen
You're allowed to scream, you're allowed to cry, but do not give up.— Unknown
And then I realized, the only person I needed in my life was me.— Unknown