47 Overcoming Heartbreak Quotes and Sayings

Being confronted with heartbreak can be one of the emotionally traumatic periods of your life. These sayings capture the essence of overcoming heartbreak and what it is life to suffer through such a period of your life.

“As time goes by, we start to see more clearly, and are able to see that it wasn’t all bad, and that perhaps just perhaps the breakup was a gift.”

“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”

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

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time.”

“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”

“Do the things that you always wanted to, without me there to hold you back, don’t think just do.”

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

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

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

“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 don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart.”

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”

“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you?”

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

“I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in.”

“I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.”

“If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back.”

“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 is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”

“It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.”

“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”

“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

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

“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

“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.”

“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

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

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“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 moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”

“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.”

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

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up.”

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

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.”

“When you’re missing a piece of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away.”

“You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there’s not much of a point. It’s not like it’ll change anything. So really, why worry?”

“You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try.”

“You teach me now how cruel you’ve been – cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort.”

There are many ways you can go about overcoming heartache. From separation anxiety to obsessive love, start looking for a cure today.