37 Quotes About Heartbreaks and Moving On

Living the life of a minimalist means that you only keep things in your life that are meaningful and create value. These quotes about heartbreaks and moving on are encouraging to any individual looking to make the most out of the little things they have in their life.

“After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it’s always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them.”

“Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.”

“Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.”

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

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

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

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

“I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.”

“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 tell people this: It’s hard to write about walking in the park, but it’s easy to write about a breakup.”

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

“If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you’re in this vulnerable state where you’re still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you’re single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.”

“If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You’re going to make great music.”

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

“It’s an unwritten rule – girl friends’ boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.”

“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.”

“New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and… you know, 72 hours of ice cream.”

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

“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.”

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

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.”

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

“Sometimes when you’re with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it’s so hard to break up with them.”

“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.”

“The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.”

“There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

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

“To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.”

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

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.”

“Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.”

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

Moving on from a breakup can require a long term commitment to recreate yourself.