Top 77 Broken Heart Quotes

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You probably have had your heart broken before. It was probably a terrible sad time in your life. However, we are here to help. Check out the top 77 broken heart quotes to help you get over your sadness.

#77 – 70. Broken Heart Quotes

77. “To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only one person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.“ Jocelyn Soriano

76. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmunson

75. “Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over.“ Maggi Richard

74. “I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive.“ Patti Roberts

73. “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.“ J.M. Barrie

72. “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.“ Fulton J. Sheen

71. “How can you forget the day your heart is broken? The funny thing about a broken heart is that it’s not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues on and you have no choice but to continue on with it. You take the hand that fate has dealt you and you press forward because there is nothing else that can be done.“ Tracy Winegar

70. “I thought when love for you died, I should die. Its dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.” – Rupert Brooke

#69 – 60. Broken Heart Quotes

69. “The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.”- Allen Klein

68. “A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. […] It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams as if there were nothing the matter with it.“ L.M. Montgomery

67. “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

66. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth. – Sienna Miller

65. “When life seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”– Kid Cudi

64. “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” The Bible

63. “When you are standing in [a]forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope“ Elizabeth Gilbert

62. “I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.“ Sara Evans

61. “I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.“ L.M. Montgomery

60. “The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.“ Anmol Rawat

#59 – 50. Broken Heart Quotes

59. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.“ Violeta Parra

58. “A wounded deer leaps highest.” — Emily Dickinson

57. “Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!“ Jocelyn Soriano

56. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” Mignon McLaughlin

55. “A broken heart does not mean you are broken. The crack is there to let the light in.” – Unknown

54. “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

53. “A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” George Bernard Shaw

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

51. “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

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

#49 – 40. Broken Heart Quotes

49. “Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.“ Anne Elisabeth Stengl

48. “How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?” Oscar Wilde

47. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.“ Sara Teasdale

46. “I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and it’s part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner. – Heidi Klum

45. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.“ Richard Puz

44. “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 laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.“ Mansi Soni

43. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.“ Mia Asher

42. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.“ H.C. Paye

41. “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow“ Sonya Watson

40. “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

#39 – 30. Broken Heart Quotes

39. “Note to heart: Don’t keep running back to the person you should be walking away from.” – Karen Salmansohn

38. “It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.“ Jocelyn Soriano

37. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.“ Mandy Hale

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

35. “You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It’s just a matter of willpower: The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.“ Junot Díaz

34. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”- Mark Twain

33. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”- Jean de La Fontaine

32. “Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete.“ Anmol Rawat

31. “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears.“ Criss Jami

30. “I hate you for all the years I ‘ll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?“ Lisa Kleypas

#29 – 20. Broken Heart Quotes

29. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.“ Aman Jassal

28. “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ” – Jean Giraudoux

27. “A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” — T.E. Kalem

26. “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.“ D.H. Lawrence

25. “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

24. “With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.“ Federico Chini

23. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost

22. “It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.“ Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

21. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.“ Christina Westover

20. “However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.“ Manna Francis

#19 – 10. Broken Heart Quotes

19. “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.“ Becca Fitzpatrick

18. “I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.“ Denice Envall

17. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.“ Carroll Bryant

16. “When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can’t make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.“ April Mae Monterrosa

15. “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

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

13. “And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.“ Elizabeth Eulberg

12. “It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.“ Katie Ashley

11. “I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it’s perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.“ Sarah Dessen

10. “Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.“ Toba Beta

#9 – 1. Broken Heart Quotes

9. “Maybe it’s a good idea to write something about you in my book… At least then, there will be a place where we will meet every day… and be together forever!“ Anamika Mishra

8. “A broken heart bleeds tears.“ Steve Maraboli

7. “The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.” – Mary Kay Andrews

6. “The heart was made to be broken.“ Oscar Wilde

5. “Never let a bad person change your inner goodness.” – Karen Salmansohn

4. “Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.“ Toba Bet

3. “I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.“ Charlotte Eriksson

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

1.“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.“ Martha Gellhorn

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