Top 61 Breakup Quotes

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You might have just gone through a breakup and are feeling down and sad. Don’t feel too bad, we are here to help you. Check out the top 61 breakup quotes to help lift your spirits.

#61 – 60. Breakup Quotes

61. How do you know when it’s over? Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you. — Gunnar Ardelius

60. One doesn’t simply grieve the loss of a relationship. One grieves the loss of the possible future, as well as the wiping-out of the past. —  Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

#59 – 50. Breakup Quotes

59. “I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile. Then walk into a pole.”— Zach Galifianakis

58. “Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger.”— Sarah Evans

57.  “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

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

55. Heartbroken? Channel your sorrow to become worthy of love. The world will be yours. ― Tapan Ghosh

54. I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I am better than that. Goodbye! —  Steve Maraboli

53. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho

52. “Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine

51. Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. — Drake

50. “Stars can’t shine without darkness.”— Kris Menace

#49 – 40. Breakup Quotes

49. “I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.”— Grace Kelly

48. Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. ― Graham Greene

47. Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up. ― Donna Lynn Hope

46. “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”— Oscar Wilde

45. “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

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

43. “The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So, I’m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns.”— Lana Turner

42. “The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.”— Mohadesa Najumi

41. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either. — Golda Meir

40. Healing yourself is connected with healing others. – Yoko Ono

#39 – 30. Breakup Quotes

39. I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back. – Paulo Coelho

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

37. “I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.”— Bette Davis

36. “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

35. “One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.”— Turcois Ominek

34. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”— Marilyn Monroe

33. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

32. “The 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

31. In order to truly value loyalty, you must first endure the affliction of betrayal. ― Thomas Merritt

30. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best, than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell

#29 – 20. Breakup Quotes

29. Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. ― Jonathan Harnisch

28. One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. ― Mandy Hale

27. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”— Burt Bacharach, Hal David

26. “It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.” – Jane Stanton Hitchcock

25. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins

24. I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well. — Ashley Greene

23. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”— Haruki Murakami

22. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”— Albert Einstein

21. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

20. “Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.” – Genevieve Rhode

#19 – 10. Breakup Quotes

19. ‘If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?’— RuPaul

18. “Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” – Len Santos

17. What happens to people that love each other? I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever. —  Ernest Hemingway

16. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. – Paulo Coelho

15. “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.”— Alex Elle

14. “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

13. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”— Lucille Ball

12. “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E.M. Forster

11. “Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”— Jack Kerouac

10. “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

#9 – 1. Breakup Quotes

9. I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan. — Karen Salmansohn

8. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”— Guy Finley

7. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

6. What is it that makes you cry? It is only your attachments. What is it that you miss when it is lost? It is the object of your attachment. Ponder over this. – Osho

5. Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go. – Herman Hesse

4. “I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.”— Bette Davis

3. “Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.” – Marcia Wieder

2. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

1.Hearts live by being wounded. – Oscar Wilde

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