37 Quotes About Heartbreak

Overcoming heartbreak presents its own set of challenges. From tapping into your own inner strength to healing from the emotional pain, these quotes about heartbreak highlights the type of new environment you will find yourself in.

“A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”

“A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”

“A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn’t work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.”

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

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

“Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you. Feel sad for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.”

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.”

“Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.”

“Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.”

“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”

“I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight. If it’s wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right cause I’m drowned in you and I won’t pull through without you by my side.”

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

“I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.”

“I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.”

“I wish I was a kid again, because skinned knees are easier to fix then broken hearts.”

“If someone you love hurts you cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”

“It’s hard to forget someone who you’ve imagined spending forever with.”

“I’ve had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.”

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

“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.”

“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

“Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.”

“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather, learning to start over.”

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

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

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“The three touchstones that woke Buddha up – sickness, old age, and death – are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.”

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”

“We can appear to be tough as nails, but guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.”

“When you have heartbreak, what’s important is that you don’t go halfway. Go all the way down. Don’t take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.”

“When you have loved unconditionally one man and lost that love, it leaves a wound that never heals, a sad and broken heart, a void forever.”

“You can’t fast-forward heartbreak, and you can’t rewind love – and that’s just one big bummer.”

“You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak – I don’t think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.”

“You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.”

“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.”

During the challenging time of heartbreak, finding a way to look forward and get past the emotional difficulties will help you to regain new focus and perspective.