35 Quotes About Breakups and Getting Back Together

Each gender takes the experience of breaking up differently. For men, it can sometimes have more devastating circumstances. Here is a look at some great quotes about breakups and getting back together that are inspiring.

“A relationship ends because you’ve outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.”

“And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.”

“But here we are together and that’s all that matters in the end.”

“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

“Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.”

“Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger.”

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”

“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

“I remember thinking sometimes we walk, sometimes we run away, but I know no matter how fast we are running, somehow we keep up with each other.”

“I should try to be strong, but baby, you’re the right kind of wrong.”

“I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.”

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced.”

“If you love something, set it free.”

“It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.”

“Oh, I just remembered how your hand fits the curve of my waist and how your smile fits the curve of my mind.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good.”

“Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.”

“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it’s time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life.”

“Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

“The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”

“There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.”

“There’s no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain.”

“To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.”

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

“Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”

“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“We were telling everybody we weren’t getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.”

“When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it’s because a little piece gets lost — the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”

“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”

“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

“You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.”

Experiencing some heartbreak after the loss of a partner can be difficult to get over.