A broken heart is an emotion that we all have, but that we only have alone.
We’re hardwired to feel enormous love and affection as humans. But there’s an equal and opposite reaction to every action, and in the case of true love, that reaction is gut-wrenching sorrow, a deep abyss of despair, utter lethargy, and thoughts of almost unending loneliness.
110+ Broken Heart Quotes to Give You Healing Power
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
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.__Tamara Webber
Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.― John Green
I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart. – Christie Brinkley
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.___Faraaz Kazi
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.___Mineko Iwasaki
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.― Mark Twain
I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you.___Tabitha Suzuma’
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.___Richard Wilbur
Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.___Rae Hachton
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.― Markus Zusak
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.___Fulton Sheen
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.__Truman Capote
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.__D.H. Lawrence
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.___Sara Teasdale
Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart. – Cassandra Clare
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
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
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.___Andrea Gibson
It’s funny how artistic we become when our hearts are broken.___Hotel Books, I Always Thought I Would Be Okay
When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.___George Bernard Shaw
Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything. – Matshona Dhliwayo
A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.___Unknown
I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.___Julia Roberts
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.___Elizabeth Gilbert
Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.___Miranda Kenneally
It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.___Allen Ginsberg
When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.___Sienna Miller
God is closest to those with broken hearts. – Jewish Proverb
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.― Kahlil Gibran
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.___D.H. Lawrence
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.___Charles Dickens
Overcoming Heartbreak
One of the most difficult challenges we encounter in life is recovering from a shattered heart. These quotations about overcoming heartbreak can help you see your suffering in a new light so you can let it go and heal.
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.___Oprah Winfrey
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.___Alexander Graham Bell
I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.___Sue Augustine
Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.– Toba Beta
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, Anna Karenina
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
Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.___John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Never love that which you cannot keep. – Anonymous
We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.― Rick Riordan
I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.___Sara Evans
The heart will break, but broken live on.___Lord Byron
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
Only time can heal your broken heart.___Miss Piggy
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
Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else’s brokenness. – Munia Kahn
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.___Margaret George
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.___Javan
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.___Marilyn Monroe
I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.― Audrey Niffenegger
Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.__Robin Sharma
Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.___Rita Stradling
I’ve been on the floor and I’ve been heartbroken. I didn’t know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.___Sandra Bullock
The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. – Alan Moore
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.___Patti Roberts
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.___Mark Twain
The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.___Mary Kay Andrews
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.― E.A. Bucchianeri
It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again. – Eric Kripke
Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.___Drake
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying ‘Long time no see.’___Phyllis Batelle
Heartbreak Quotes
Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken___Jeffery Eugenides
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.___Nicholas Sparks
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.___Khalil Gibran
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. – Bette Davis
The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.___William Faulkner
Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.___Ashleyy
Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret. – Laura Kasischke
There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.___Ashley Lorenzana
Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak. – Alessandra Torre
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.___Mineko Iwasaki
Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one. Break their bones, they have 206 of those!__Jayy Von Monroe
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
Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?___Debra K. Messer
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.___The Tinman, The Wizard of Oz
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.___Andrea Gibson
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
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.___Alphonse de Lamartine
Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.__Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
I wish I were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.___Julia Roberts
I’m not supposed to miss you, I’m not supposed to care.___Debra Cox
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.___E.A. Bucchianeri
The heart is the only broken instrument that works. – T.E. Kalem
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.___H.L. Mencken
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.___Gregory Roberts
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.___Stelle Atwater
We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.___Rae Hacton
No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.___Faraaz Kazi
Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.___Warsan Shire
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. – Carroll Bryant
Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?___J.C. Reed
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.___Wallace Stegner
‘Hearts are breakable,’ Isabelle said. ‘And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.’___Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.___Jodi Thomas
The hottest love has the coldest end.___Socrates
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.___Charlotte Ericksson
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in aching. – Countee Cullen
There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.___Pearl Buck
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.– Henny Youngman
I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.__Mary Wollstonecraft
Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.___Jon Voight
Sometimes… Sometimes our hearts…crack a little.___Brodi Ashton
Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.___Jodi Lynn Anderson
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.___Robert James Waller
You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.___Douglas Booth
God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.___Unknown
You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.___Unknown
So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.___Ariana
When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realize it’s about making the most of life.___Britney Spears