100+ Best Bad Relationship Quotes That’ll Inspire You Moving On

Bad Relationship Quotes

  • “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” —Robert Brault
  • “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” —Dan Brown
  • “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” —Faraaz Kazi
  • “Just because you want it, doesn’t mean it’s for you. Letting go doesn’t always equate to losing.”
  • “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” —Jojo Moyes
  • “Don’t stay in an unhealthy relationship because you think it’ll get better eventually. Know your worth and move on.”
  • “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” —Mandy Hale
  • “A real man never stops trying to show a woman how much she means to him, even after he’s got her.”
  • “You cannot change the past but you can change the way you look upon it. So treat the bad as a lesson and move on.”
  • “You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.” —Charles Orlando
  • “It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.” —Gabrielle Zevin
  • “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” —Steve Maraboli
  • “You’re in a relationship to be happy, to smile, to laugh, and to make good memories. Not to constantly be upset, to feel hurt, and to cry.”
  • “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” —Steve Maraboli
  • “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” —Shannon L. Alder
  • “Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” —Mandy Hale
  • “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” —Katherine Mansfield
  • “That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.” —Robyn Schneider
  • “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest…” —H.P. Lovecraft
  • “Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.” —Mandy Hale
  • “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” —Sarah Waters
  • “I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.” —Cameron Dokey

Ending A Bad Relationship Quotes

  • “The hottest love has the coldest end.” —Socrates
  • “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life.” —Steve Martin
  • “I am a strong believer that a bad relationship must be brought to an end, no matter how.” —Unknown
  • “Sometimes it’s better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.” —Karen Salmansohn

Leaving A Bad Relationship Quotes

  • “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
  • “If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it’s time to get up and leave.” —Karen Salmansohn
  • “It is better to break your own heart by leaving an abusive relationship, rather than having that person breaking your heart every day.”
  • “We should fight for our relationships but if fighting means ripping yourself to shreds and piggybacking all his demons, you need to leave.” —Tara Love
  • It is better for someone to break your heart once by leaving your life, than for them to stay in your life and break your heart continually.” —Terry Mark
  • “Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it’s a bad one?” —Stephanie Perkins

Funny Bad Relationship Quotes

  • I have a very bad relationship with mice.” —Casey Affleck
  • Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.” —Groucho Marx
  • Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.” —Anonymous
  • If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.” —Lilly Tomlin
  • Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” —Oscar Wilde
  • I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.” —Will Rogers
  • I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” —Groucho Marx
  • The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.” —Ronnie Edwards
  • The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.” —Colin Chapman
  • Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with.” —Rita Rudner
  • My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” —Socrates
  • Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” —Marianne Faithfull
  • A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.” —Cher
  • I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was ‘You’ll never find anyone like me again!’ I’m thinking, ‘I should hope not! If I don’t want you, why would I want someone like you.” —Anonymous
  • I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” —Rita Rudner

Bad Relationship Quotes for Him

  • “And I’m dying to know, is it killing you like it’s killing me?” —Taylor Swift
  • “If they’re making you feel down more than making you feel great, then there’s your sign.”
  • “A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.”
  • “It is better to break your own heart by leaving an abusive relationship, rather than having that person breaking your heart every day.”
  • “We should fight for our relationships but if fighting means ripping yourself to shreds and piggybacking all his demons, you need to leave.” —Tara Love
  • “If you’re in a relationship and all you do is cry, you need to stop and ask yourself, are you dating a human or an onion?”

Bad Relationship Quotes For Her

  • “A real man ends a relationship before he starts searching for another one.”
  • “One bad relationship could make you never what to fall in love again.”
  • “Don’t stay in a bad relationship because you think it will get better it never does.”
  • “Don’t worry when I fight with you, worry when I stop because it means there’s nothing left for us to fight for.”
  • “If a man expects his woman to be an angel in his life, then he should first create a Heaven for her.”
  • “Every man needs a woman when his life is a mess, because just like in a game of chess; the QUEEN protects the KING.”
  • “A real man can’t stand seeing his woman hurt. He’s careful with his decisions and actions, so he never has to be responsible for her pain.”

Inspirational Bad Relationship Quotes to Learn From

  • “Professionalism makes work relationships healthy, foolishness and dishonesty erodes them.” —Ty Howard
  • “If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” —Washington Irving
  • “The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.” —Sonya Parker
  • “We are responsible for our own relationships, their success, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.” —Sam Owen

Letting Go Of Bad Relationship Quotes

  • “When you let go you create space for something better.”
  • “I went to war for what we you had never even laced your boots.”
  • “God often removes someone from your life for a reason. Think before you chase after them.”
  • “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change. “
  • “Moving on from someone you love isn’t about forgetting them. It’s about having the strength to say I still love you, but you’re not worth this pain.”
  • “As I was fighting for you, I realized I was fighting to be lied to, fighting to be taken for granted, fighting to be disappointed, fighting to be hurt again..So I started fighting to let go.”
  • “Don’t hold on because you think there will be no one else. There will always be someone else. You’ve got to believe you are worth more than being repeatedly hurt by someone who doesn’t really care and believe that someone will see what you are really worth and treat you the way you should be treated.”

Motivational Bad Relationship Quotes

  • “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” —Anthony Robbins
  • “Learn to walk away from those who cause harm to you.” —Malika E Nura
  • “Love sometimes hurts when you’re not with the right person but, don’t give up loving.” —Unknown
  • “Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” —Woody Allen
  • “There is no reason to believe that a bad relationship can be fixed, sometimes you have to let go.” —Unknown
  • “I think it is a bad relationship when you get blamed for the things that make you who you are.” —Unknown
  • “When there is no trust at all between the two of you, then you do have a bad relationship then.” —Unknown
  • “When you get into a bad relationship the best thing you can do is get out of it as soon you can.” —Unknown
  • “I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” —Rita Rudner

Strong Bad Relationship Quotes

  • “Sometimes you don’t get closure, you just move on.” —Karen Salmansohn
  • “You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.” —Chinonye J. Chidolue
  • “There are people who break you down by just being them. They need not do anything. Dissociate.” —Malebo Sephodi
  • “It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others.” —Stefan Molyneux
  • “Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.” —Sharon Salzberg
  • “You fell in love with my flowers but not my roots, so when autumn arrived you didn’t know what to do.” —Unknown
  • “Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.” —John Mark Green
  • “You don’t know what’s right or wrong. You’ve been told ‘you’re crazy’ ‘you´re overreacting’ so many times you started to believe that’s the truth.” —Anna Akana
  • “Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!” ―Israelmore Ayivor
  • “I felt an inner peace and softness. My Berlin Wall had been cracked; the toxic relationship between me and that critical voice had been severed.” —Penny De Villiers
  • “Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.” —Gift Gugu Mona
  • “We all have that toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them…”― Rodolfo Peon
  • “There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.” —Anthon St. Maarten

Short Quotes About Bad Relationships

  • “You gotta stop watering dead plants.”
  • “You cannot thrive in toxic relationships.”
  • “Don’t force together pieces that won’t fit.”
  • “Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” —Henry Winkler
  • “If they don’t appreciate you, they don’t deserve you.”
  • “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” —Edith Hamilton
  • “I am one bad relationship away from having 30 cats.”
  • “I wish I knew how to quit you.” —Jack Twist
  • “All relationships go through bad times, real relationships get through it.”
  • “The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.” —Robert Anthony
  • “Sometimes you have to kiss a few frogs to find a prince.”
  • “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.” —Marian Keyes
  • “There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you’ve had enough.”
  • “A wrong relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.”
  • “Being alone may scare you, but being in a bad relationship may damage you.”
  • “Don’t force someone to make time for you, if they really want to they will.”
  • “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” —Groucho Marx
  • “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” —George Washington
  • “You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.”
  • “How many times do you need to get hurt for you to realize it’s time to let go.”

Bad Relationship Quotes and Sayings

  • “Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • “To be a person who makes and keeps relationships healthy be reliable.” —Ty Howard
  • “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.” —Dr. Joyce Brothers
  • “A bad relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.” —Unknown
  • “Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.” —Zig Ziglar
  • “Break free of toxic people and relationships, they erode your quality of life.” —Ty Howard
  • “Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “Relationships are like crystals, you don’t realize how much you love it until it breaks.” —Walter Winchell
  • “Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” —Mary Tyler Moore
  • “Relationship does not live in essence unless you can reliably tell the truth without being prompted.” —Kathryn Hendricks
  • “Problems in relationships occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “How can I let you be a priority in my life, when I’m still an option in your life?”
  • “I am getting nowhere with you and I can’t let you go and I can’t get through.” —Ani DiFranco
  • “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” —Henry C. Link
  • “Relationships are supposed to make you feel good. Relationships are not supposed to make you feel bad.” —Laura Bowers
  • “All the lies and pain you put me through, I know now that your love was never true.” —Francine Chiar
  • “The wrong person isn’t breaking their back to make you happy. So, stop breaking your back for them.” —Sonya Parker
  • “People hold onto the wrong person because they think that person has the potential to be a better person.” —Sonya Parker
  • “Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • “A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.” —Shakti Gawain
  • “A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.”
  • “People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.” —Edmund Burke
  • “No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” —May Sarton
  • “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” —Deepak Chopra
  • “We are responsible for our own relationships, their success, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.”
  • “Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Great happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships.” —Gary Chapman
  • “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
  • “Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.” —Amy Grant
  • “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” —William James
  • “For there is but one problem – the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • “In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her parachute and the other accepts this role both will fall to the ground.” —Guy Finley
  • “A bad relationship is like standing on broken glass, if you stay you will keep hurting? If you walk away, you will hurt but eventually you will heal.” —Autumn Kohler
  • “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, because hate in your heart will consume you too.” —Will Smith
  • “If you’re giving love and not receiving it, you’re not in the right relationship. If you’re receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.” —Patti Stanger
  • “Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?” —Donna Lynn Hope
  • “Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” —Wiston Auden
  • “There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” —Dionne Warwick