45 Quotes About Healing From a Broken Heart

Experiencing a broken heart serves as just one part to our eventual greatness. From adversity to struggle, these quotes about healing from a broken heart encourages us to make better decisions for ourselves in the future.

“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.”

“When you remember how hard it is to change yourself, you begin to understand what little chance we have of changing others.”

“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”

“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.”

“Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”

“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”

“They say that time heals all wounds but all it’s done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.”

“They say that if you love someone you should let them go, but they never say what to do when they don’t come back.”

“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”

“There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.”

“There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move – and he, in turn, waits for you.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

“The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ”

“The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.”

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”

“Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.”

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”

“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”

“Love is unconditional, relationships are not.”

“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”

“Love is like a puzzle. When you’re in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.”

“Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.”

“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.”

“Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.”

“Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.”

“Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

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

“If your love does not work with that person, it just means that someone else loves you more.”

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

“If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open you heart to.”

“I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn’t brighten her own.”

“I never can love another, as long as life may stand. No maid the wide world over shall hold this heart or hand.”

“How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police – it’s gone.”

“Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.”

“He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.”

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

“Brains are like hearts – they go where they are appreciated.”

“Ask me how many times my heart has been broken and I will tell you to look in the sky and count the stars.”

“And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.”

Experiencing a broken heart is a key part to reaching our eventual path to success.