“Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” —Cassandra Clare
“Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.”
“Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.” —Toba Beta
“Don’t be sorry. I trusted you, my fault. Not yours.”
“Have you ever been so sad that it physically hurts inside?”
“I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” —Christie Brinkley
“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”
“Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”
“You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.”
“God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.”
“The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.” —Becca Fitzpatrick
“I thought you were healing me. But no, you just broke me even more.”
“Just because I am strong enough to handle pain doesn’t mean I deserve it.”
“You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.” —Douglas Booth
“If they keep hurting you, love them and stay or love yourself and leave.”
“It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.”
“It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” —Eric Kripke
“My mouth says, “I’m ok.” My fingers text, “I’m fine.” My heart says, “I’m broken.”
“I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.”
“If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.”
“Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.” —Tinman, Wizard of Oz
“Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.”
“I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.”
“Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.”
“When you love someone more than they deserve, surely they will hurt you more than you deserve.”
“The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.”
“I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.”
“I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable.” —Lykke Li
“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.” —James Patterson
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” —Margaret George
“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”
“A woman who opens her heart to love you, when its already broken, is braver than any person you’ll meet.”
“So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.”
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” —Patti Roberts
“One of the cruelest things a person can do is to awaken someone’s love without the intention of truly loving them.”
“A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.”
“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.” —Francoise Sagan
“A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.”
“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” —William Faulkner
“It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes an even stronger heart to continue to love after it’s been hurt.”
“If I could show you how awful you made me feel, you would never be able to look me in the eyes again.”
“I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.” —Benedict Smith
“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
“I will never regret you or say I wish I’d never met you. Because once upon a time you were exactly what I needed.”
“Each night I put my head to my pillow I try to tell myself I’m strong because I’ve gone one more day without you.”
“You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.” —Isabel Gillies
“You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.”
“I cried a lot because of you. I laughed a lot because of you. I believed in love because of you. And now I’m heartbroken because of you.”
“I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.” —Heidi Klum
“Behind my smile is a broken heart, behind my laugh I’m falling apart. Behind my eyes are tears at night, behind my body is a soul trying to fight.”
“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” —Steve Maraboli
“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” —Leo Tolstoy
“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.” —Pearl S. Buck
“How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police – it’s gone.” —Marlene Dietrich
“Having your heart broken is a different type of pain than breaking someone’s heart. While guilt is heavier, grief is more alienating. As victims of someone else’s mistakes, it is harder to accept the pain inflicted on us.”
“Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelizing energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.” —Deepika Padukone
“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” —Leo Buscaglia
“I know what it’s like to have a broken heart. I know what it’s like to feel pain: When my songs don’t become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.” —Diane Warren
“If all hearts were open and all desires known – as they would be if people showed their souls – how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place.” —Thomas Hardy
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
“Breaking a woman’s heart is deeper than men realize. It destroys her outlook on love, breaks her heart, rips her self-esteem to shreds, tortures her mind, and damages her soul. Don’t let her fall for you, unless you plan on picking her up.”
“Pain has a crucial role in our lives because it acts as a learning lesson which makes us wiser and more adequate in dealing with life’s idiosyncrasies. When we engage with our suffering completely, we reach a place where pain transforms into acceptance and love.”
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” —Steve Maraboli
Heartbroken Quotes and Sayings
“The heart was made to be broken.” —Oscar Wilde
“Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” —Jeffrey Eugenides
“It’s hard to forget someone who you’ve imagined spending forever with.” —Unknown
“Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.” —Miranda Kenneally
“He already ruined your mascara, don’t let him ruin your life.” —Unknown
“While I was holding on all you did was let go.” —Unknown
“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” —Laura Kasischke
“A heartbreak is a terrible thing to someone who loves with passion.” —Unknown
“Sometimes it’s better to be alone. No one can hurt you that way.” —Unknown
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather, learning to start over.” —Nicole Sobon
“Stop holding on to what hurts and start making room for what feels good.” —Unknown
“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you knew.” —Unknown
“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” —Nina Simone
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” —Nicholas Sparks
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” —Faraaz Kazi
“If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.” —Unknown
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” —Samuel Butler
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” —Steve Maraboli
“What’s even more painful than being abandoned, is knowing that you’re not even worth an explanation.” —Unknown
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” —Mineko Iwasaki
“I wish I was a kid again, because skinned knees are easier to fix then broken hearts.” —Unknown
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” —Violeta Parra
“Sometimes the greatest enemy of our present happiness is the past happiness that is too well remembered.” —Unknown
“Sometimes you just have to hold your head up high, blink away the tears and say good-bye.” —Unknown
“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” —Sufi Epigram
“A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” —T.E. Kalem
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” —Jean Giraudoux
“Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one? Break their bones, they have 206 on those.” —Jayy Von Monroe
“I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” —Terri Guillemets
“It’s a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.” —JSB Morse
“Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future.” —Unknown
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” —Unknown
“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” —JSB Morse
“Sometimes you have to learn to let go of the person you love, and just hold on to the memory of what was.” —Unknown
“Sometimes you can’t let go of the hurt, because it’s all that’s left of the greatest love story you never thought would end.” —Unknown
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” —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
“When you have loved unconditionally one man and lost that love, it leaves a wound that never heals, a sad and broken heart, a void forever.” —Unknown
“Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” —Sylvia Plath
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.” —Jodi Picoult
“Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you. Feel sad for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.” —Unknown
“Having a broken heart is like falling off a horse. Most people will get back on, but some walk away too afraid of the pain to take another chance.” —Unknown
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” —Unknown
“A heart breaking isn’t always as loud as a bomb exploding.. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling.. And the most painful thing is, no one really hears it, except you.” —Unknown
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight. If it’s wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right because I’m drowned in you and I won’t pull through without you by my side.” —Mariah Carey
“The scariest part of letting someone go is not knowing if you will ever find a love that strong again. But, whats even scarier is staying with them and knowing you’re missing out on every other love you should have known.” —Unknown
“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. Believe that someone will see what you are really worth and treat you the way you should be treated.” —Unknown