50 Heartbreak Quotes to Ease the Pain

Heartbreak, a profound ache that accompanies the crumbling of love’s foundation, is a sentiment universally experienced yet uniquely interpreted. In this article, we embark on a poignant journey through the labyrinth of heartbreak, exploring the perspectives of various individuals who have navigated love’s tumultuous terrain.

Among them are John Green, Ella Harper, and Julia Roberts, each offering their own profound reflections on the nature of heartbreak.

Through the voices of these wise, vulnerable, and resilient individuals, we seek solace, understanding, and a glimmer of hope amidst the shattered fragments of our hearts. Join us as we ease the pain of heartbreak together.

1. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” —Bette Davis

2. “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.” —Unknown

3. “You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.” —Unknown

4. “You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you miss them.” -John Green

5. “When we miss someone often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.” -Luigina Sgarro

6. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” -Ella Harper

7. “You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky.” —Unknown

8. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” —Stelle Atwater

9. “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” —Terri Guillemets

10. “Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” —Warsan Shire

11. “The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.” —Sanober Kahn

12. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” —Bess Myerson

13. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” -Sara Teasdale

14. “Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over.” —Maggi Richard

15. “Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.” —Tabitha Suzuma

16. “It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.” -Eric Krike

17. “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

18. “I wish I could hurt you the way you hurt me. But I know that if I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it.” —Unknown

19. “Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.” —Atticus

20.“The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” —Unknown

21. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” —E.A. Bucchianeri

22. “I will never regret loving you, only believing you loved me too.” —Unknown

23.“One day you’ll finally see, your biggest mistake was not loving me.” —Nishan Panwar

24. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” —Michael Faudet

25. “Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite—it means you feel it all more.” —Julie Johnson

26. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” -Julia Roberts

27. “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

28. “If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.” —Unknown

29. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” -Violeta Parra

30. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” -Richard Puz

31. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” -Faraaz Kazi

32. “Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.” —Frank Ocean

33. “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

34. “Never let a bad person change your inner goodness.” – Karen Salmansohn

35. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”- Mark Twain

36. “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

37. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost

38. “Your experience of grief is powerful, yet so is your ability to love and heal.” – Unknown

39. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” -Steve Maraboli

40. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” -Carroll Bryant

41. “Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!” -Jocelyn Soriano

42. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” -Aman Jassal

43. “A broken heart does not mean you are broken. The crack is there to let the light in.” -Unknown

44. “However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.” -Manna Francis

45. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” -Christina Westover

46. “Must I go bound while you go free, must I love a man who doesn’t love me, must I be born with so little art, as to love a man who’ll break my heart?” -Cassandra Clare

47. “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

48. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” -Alysha Speer

49. “I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.” -Denice Envall

50. “If only falling out of love was as easy as falling in love. The pleasure love brings is nothing compared to the pain when it is taken away.” -Unknown

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