37 Quotes About Breakup and Moving On

Experiencing a major change in your life can force you to take new direction and move on. Making it through a break up is just one way to experience a new phase of your life. Here are some great quotes about breakup and moving on that are encouraging to read.

“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It’s a lie. It’s just something that people say they’ll do to take the permanence out of a breakup.”

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up.”

“Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”

“Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation.”

“Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.”

“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”

“Families break up when they get hints you don’t intend and miss hints that you do.”

“He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”

“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

“I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.”

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

“I don’t think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren’t much of a breakup.”

“I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.”

“I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.”

“I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman.”

“I’m a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out.”

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”

“It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.”

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”

“Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.”

“Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.”

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

“No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.”

“No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.”

“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“That’s why I’ve always loved country music. Whether it’s sad, pumps you up, or it’s breakup songs, it’s all real-life things.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it’s just a drag, like a cold or having no money.”

“What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.”

“When you leave weary of me without a work, I shall gently let you go.”

You may experience being stuck in life or living in a rut. Finding a way to put yourself down a more motivating path will ensure you start fresh the right way.