68 Quotes About Heartbreak

A broken heart is hands down the absolute worst feeling in the world. Physically you are fine but emotionally, you are a wreck and do not know how you will cope with the rest of your life. If you are in this boat, we have compiled a list of great heartbreak quotes capturing what it’s like being heartbroken so that you can know that others have felt the same as you do!

1) “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
– By Stephen King.

2) “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.”
– By Anonymous.

3) “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.”
– By Anonymous.

4) “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.”
– By Cassandra Clare.

5) “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.”
– By Anonymous

6) “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.”
– By Diane Warren

7) “A broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.”
– Anonymous.

8) “It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes an even stronger heart to continue to love after it’s been hurt.”
– By Anonymous.

9) “The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.”
– By Anonymous.

10) “I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.”
– By Christie Brinkley.

11) “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.”
– by Anonymous.

12) “Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.”
– By Deepika Padukone.

13) “I thought you were healing me. But no, you just broke me even more.”
– Anonymous.

14) “A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.”
– by Anonymous.

15) “If I could show you how awful you made me feel, you would never be able to look me in the eyes again.”
– by Anonymous.

16) “Just because I am strong enough to handle pain doesn’t mean I deserve it.”
– By Anonymous.

17) “It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
– By Eric Kripke.

18) “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.”
– By Steve Maraboli.

19) “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.”
– By Pearl S. Buck.

20) “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”
– Anonymous.

21) “So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.”
– By Anonymous.

22) “Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.”
– By The Tinman, Wizard of Oz.

23) “My mouth says, “I’m ok.” My fingers text, “I’m fine.” My heart says, “I’m broken.”
– By Anonymous.

24) “God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.”
– by Anonymous.

25) “You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.”
– By Isabel Gillies.

26) “Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”
– By Francoise Sagan,

27) “This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.”
– By James Patterson.

28) “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.”
– By Heidi Klum.

29) “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.”
– By Anonymous.

30) “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.”
-By Anonymous.

31) “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.”
-By Anonymous.

32) “I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable.”
– By Lykke Li.

33) “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?”
– By Leo Tolstoy.

34) “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.”
– By Steve Maraboli.

35) A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
– By J.S.B. Morse.

36) “It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.”
– By Anonymous.

37) “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
– By Patti Roberts.

38) “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.”
– By Anonymous.

39) “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.”
– By Anonymous.

40) “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.”
– By Becca Fitzpatrick.

41) “Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.”
– By Anonymous.

42) “Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.”
– By Toba Beta.

43) “Have you ever been so sad that it physically hurts inside?”
– By Anonymous.

44) “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.”
-By Anonymous.

45) “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.”
– By Margaret George.

46) “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!”
– By Thomas Hardy.

47) “If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.”
– By Anonymous.

48) “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.”
– By Marlene Dietrich.

49) “One of the cruelest things a person can do is to awaken someone’s love without the intention of truly loving them.”
– By Anonymous.

50) “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.”
-By Anonymous.

51) “Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”
– By Anonymous.

52) “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.”
– By Anonymous.

53) “Don’t be sorry. I trusted you, my fault. Not yours.”
– By Anonymous.

54) “You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.”
– By Douglas Booth.

55) “When you love someone more than they deserve, surely they will hurt you more than you deserve.”
-By Anonymous.

56) “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”
– Nicholas Sparks.

57) “You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.”
– By Anonymous.

58) “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.”
– By Anonymous.

59) “I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.”
– By Anonymous.