100 broken heart quotes to help you heal

Suffering from a broken heart is a general experience, yet each of us feels as though our pain is uniquely ours.

In these moments, words have the power to soothe, to heal, and to encapsulate feelings we struggle to express.

This collection of 100 broken heart quotes aims to offer solace, understanding, and a path toward healing. They speak to the importance of feeling our pain fully, learning from it, and eventually, letting it go.

100 broken heart quotes

Heartache is a teacher of its own kind. It reminds us of our capacity to love and, paradoxically, our resilience in the face of loss.

Whether you're searching for words that resonate with your current state or seeking wisdom to guide you through, there's something here for everyone:

1. "Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
2. "The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde
3. "It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise." - Sara Teasdale
4. "Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - The Wizard of Oz
5. "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
6. "Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser." - Unknown
7. "What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?" - Unknown
8. "I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart." - Julia Roberts
9. "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
10. "Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities." - Patti Roberts
11. "Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday." - Leo Buscaglia
12. "It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again." - Eric Kripke
13. "The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep." - Margaret George
14. "You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it." - Henny Youngman
15. "Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away." - Ashleyy
16. "The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten." - William Faulkner
17. "It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." - Ella Harper
18. "This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach." - Wendy Wunder
19. "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
20. "The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart." - Becca Fitzpatrick
21. "It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a lifetime." - Unknown
22. "Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime." - Mineko Iwasaki
23. "To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful." - Bess Myerson
24. "Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them." - Fulton J. Sheen
25. "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
26. "A broken heart bleeds tears." - Steve Maraboli
27. "If you start to miss me, remember, I didn't walk away. You let me go." - Unknown
28. "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
29. "Among my stillness was a pounding heart." - Shannon A. Thompson
30. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." - Washington Irving
31. "Breaking up is just like having the worst nightmare after having the best dream." - Unknown
32. "The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it..." - Nicholas Sparks
33. "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
34. "A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realise he saved you from the wrong one." - Unknown
35. "Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces." - Patti Roberts
36. "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
37. "The hardest thing about realising you don't love me is that you spent so much time pretending that you did." - Unknown
38. "It's not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow." - Unknown
39. "I know my heart will never be the same but I'm telling myself I'll be okay." - Sara Evans
40. "Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret." - Laura Kasischke
41. "The art of love is largely the art of persistence." - Albert Ellis
42. "Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs." - Miss Piggy
43. "Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult." - Unknown
44. "The hottest love has the coldest end." - Socrates
45. "They say follow your heart, but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?" - Unknown
46. "Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." - Lamartine
47. "Love is unconditional, relationships are not." - Grant Gudmunson
48. "Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow." - L. Ron Hubbard
49. "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 places as long as I lived." - Margaret Mitchell
50. "You can't give your heart to a wild thing." - Truman Capote
51. "The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you've made them your eternity." - Sanober Khan
52. "It's amazing how a person who was once just a stranger, suddenly means the world to you." - Unknown
53. "Sometimes the only way to get over the pain of heartbreak is to let yourself go through it fully." - Unknown
54. "In the end, we all become stories." - Margaret Atwood
55. "To heal a wound you need to stop touching it." - Unknown
56. "The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow." - Sonya Watson
57. "The way to love anything is to realise that it may be lost." - G.K. Chesterton
58. "Heartbreak is life educating us." - George Bernard Shaw
59. "Every heartbreak makes it harder to keep my heart open." - Unknown
60. "If they are stupid enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go." - Unknown
61. "Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its colour." - W.S. Merwin
62. "The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did." - Faraaz Kazi
63. "Love sometimes comes like a dream and leaves like a nightmare." - Unknown
64. "It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes an even stronger heart to continue to love after it's been hurt." - Unknown
65. "The pain of yesterday is the strength of today." - Paulo Coelho
66. "As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you." - Javan
67. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche
68. "The worst feeling isn't being lonely but being forgotten by someone you can't forget." - Unknown
69. "One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." - James Earl Jones
70. "Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as a temporary happiness." - Unknown
71. "It's better to have loved and lost than to have hated and won." - Unknown
72. "Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars." - Violeta Parra
73. "It's amazing how quickly your mood can change, how deep your heart can sink, and how much one person can affect you." - Unknown
74. "A heartbreak is a lesson, learn it and move on." - Unknown
75. "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
76. "Just because I'm strong enough to handle pain doesn't mean I deserve it." - Unknown
77. "Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over." - Nicole Sobon
78. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
79. "Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse
80. "A breakup is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it." - Unknown
81. "When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain." - Andrea Gibson
82. "Sometimes it's better to be alone, no one can hurt you that way." - Tinku Razoria
83. "There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams
84. "It's not the breakup that hurts the most. It's the post-trauma that follows it. It is waking up and checking your phone for the message that isn't there." - Unknown
85. "No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief." - Faraaz Kazi
86. "The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham
87. "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
88. "Sometimes you have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve." - Unknown
89. "When you love someone more than they deserve, surely they will hurt you more than you deserve." - Unknown
90. "I know it's over and it never really began, but in my heart, it was so real." - Unknown
91. "It's difficult to wait for someone, and it's difficult to forget someone. But the hardest part of moving forward is trying to decide what you're going to miss." - Unknown
92. A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see that special person in a lift and he is fat and smoking and saying 'Long time no see'." - Phyllis Batelle
93. "The saddest kind of sad is when your tears can't even drop and you feel nothing. It's like the world has just ended. You don't cry, you don't hear, you don't see. You just stay there. For a second, the heart dies." - Unknown
94. "It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts." - Steve Maraboli
95. "The heart will break, but broken live on." - Lord Byron
96. "Sometimes, you just have to wonder how many times someone you care about has to hurt you before you finally don't care." - Unknown
97. "Letting go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be." - Unknown
98. "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
99. "A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just his way of letting you realise he saved you from the wrong one." - Unknown
100. "Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to." - Mandy Hale

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