37 Quotes About Broken Hearts

Getting comfortable with being alone can take some time. These quotes about broken hearts highlight the difference you will experience as you adapt to being alone.

“A broken heart bleeds tears.”

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

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

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

“Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”

“Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.”

“I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable.”

“I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I’m just too weird to be in a relationship.”

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

“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.”

“I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.”

“I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.”

“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”

“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”

“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.”

“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.”

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

“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”

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

“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”

“Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.”

“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.”

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

“The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.”

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.”

“The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.”

“The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.”

“Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.”

“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.”

“Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”

“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person.”

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

“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.”

“You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future.”

“You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.”

“You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.”

Getting your heart broken is not the worst thing that can happen to you life.