56 Broken Heart Quotes to Help You Through Any Breakup Pain
No one likes saying goodbye to those we love, but these words will motivate you to move on and focus on self-love.
As the song goes, breaking up is hard to do. But that trite title is a serious oversimplification to describe what can be a deeply painful and destabilizing time of life — a time when you may not just be mourning the loss of romantic love but also trying to disentangle shared friends, belongings or even kids. There's no sense in sugarcoating it: It's a time that can be truly brutal, but there’s no way around it except through it.
One thing that can help is channeling the knowledge that you’re in good company: Countless people have gone through it before, are going through it right now and will do so in the future. To that end, we’ve rounded up dozens of our favorite comforting broken heart quotes (that can also act as self-love sayings) that can remind you that you’re not alone, and there’s a whole new world of opportunity and joy waiting for you on the other side.
Other methods that can help get through a breakup can include removing apps for a social media cleanse (don't underestimate how much more painful social media can make the process), and revving up your self-care routine, treating yourself in whatever ways feel soothing to you.
And if your pain feels too much to bear, there are resources that can help. Check out mhanational.org and therecoveryvillage.com for crisis numbers with immediate-response teams standing by. Or seek professional support from a therapist who really gets you (finding the right person can be daunting, but our guide on how to find the right therapist can help you get started in your search). You got this!
Zora Neale Hurston
That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going.
Langston Hughes
So since i’m still here livin’, i guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born.
Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Toni Morrison
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't no love at all.
Faraaz Kazi
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
James Baldwin
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
Raymond Lindquist
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Steve Maraboli
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Jean de La Fontaine
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Soo Jie
When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut — it will heal, but there will always be a scar.
Coco J. Ginger
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.
Federico Chini
With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
Carroll Bryant
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.
Patti Roberts
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.
H.C. Paye
I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.
Oscar Wilde
The heart was made to be broken.
Bette Davis
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
H. L. Mencken
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Alesandra is a digital travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Prevention, Insider, Glamour, Shondaland, AFAR, Parents, TODAY, and countless other online and print outlets. Alesandra has a masters degree in journalism with an emphasis on cultural reporting and criticism from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. An avid traveler, she trots the globe with her husband and their twins.
Katarina Avendaño (she/her) is the senior SEO editor for Good Housekeeping, where she writes and edits lifestyle content and contributes to SEO strategy. Before joining GH in 2021, she was the digital editor at New York Family, where she was responsible for the website’s content and strategy. Katarina received her bachelor's degree in communications and Spanish from the University of Washington.
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