41 Quotes About Heartbreak and Disappointment

Dealing with the loss and disappointment of a relationship can contribute to you losing faith in yourself and others. These quotes about heartbreak and disappointment will offer the right perspective you need to move forward.

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

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

“A heartbreak is a terrible thing to someone who loves with passion.”

“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.”

“Having a broken heart is like falling off a horse. Most people will get back on, but some walk away too afraid of the pain to take another chance.”

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

“Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.”

“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 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 a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.”

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

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.”

“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.”

“Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future.”

“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”

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

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”

“Sometimes it’s better to be alone. No one can hurt you that way.”

“Sometimes the greatest enemy of our present happiness is the past happiness that is too well remembered.”

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

“Sometimes you can’t let go of the hurt, because it’s all that’s left of the greatest love story you never thought would end.”

“Sometimes you have to learn to let go of the person you love, and just hold on to the memory of what was.”

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

“Stop holding on to what hurts and start making room for what feels good.”

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

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“The scariest part of letting someone go is not knowing if you will ever find a love that strong again. But, whats even scarier is staying with them and knowing you’re missing out on every other love you should have known.”

“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you knew.”

“What’s even more painful than being abandoned, is knowing that you’re not even worth an explanation.”

“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”

“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.”

“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.”

“While I was holding on all you did was let go.”

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

Having your heart broken is not always a saddening experience. For some, you can earn and learn from the experience and still go on to build anew.