37 Quotes About Breakups and Being Strong

Becoming mentally strong requires a lot more than just physical strength. These quotes about breakups and being strong highlight the many qualities you need to survive.

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

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

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

“Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.”

“Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.”

“For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.”

“Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.”

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.”

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

“Hearts live by being wounded.”

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”

“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.”

“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.”

“I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.”

“I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.”

“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

“Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.”

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”

“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.”

“Some of think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.”

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.”

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”

“What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

It takes just a few words to change your life for the better in the long haul.