120 Quotes on Getting over Heartbreak and Love

Have you ever experienced heartbreak? It’s a sensation that might feel overwhelming as if it has taken over your entire body. Most of us can relate to the terrible feelings in our chests, the racing thoughts, and the tears. We can all relate to those long, sleepless nights. Unfortunately, love often results in a broken heart.

When we are experiencing heartbreak, it can be difficult to find the perfect words to explain the pain and the strength to move on.

That’s where quotes on getting over heartbreak come in — they offer us words of comfort and inspiration that can help us feel understood and hopeful again.

Quotes have the ability to validate and inspire you in ways that even your closest friends and family cannot.

Let’s dive in!

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Quotes on Getting over Heartbreak and Love

1. “I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.” — Kate Winslet

2. “I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” — Sara Evans

3. “Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.” — Usher

4. “Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

5. “Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been.” — Sylvester McNutt III

6. “I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.” — L.M. Montgomery

7. “Our bodies heal without permission, but our hearts need consent. Give it.” — Lauren Eden

8. “People think that holding on makes them strong, but what they don’t realize is that strength lies in letting go.” — Anonymous

9. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.” — Shannon L. Alder

10. “The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra

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11. “Don’t keep thinking about what went wrong; focus on how to move on. Spend your energy on finding a solution that will help you move forward.” — Anonymous

12. “Some people will stay, and some will leave. It isn’t the end of your story but the end of their roles in your life.” — Anonymous

13. “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” — Shannon L. Alder

14. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” — H.C. Paye

15. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take and the decisions we waited too long to make.” — Lewis Carroll

16. “Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.” — Donna Lynn Hope

17. “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.” — Coco J. Ginger

18. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” — Faraaz Kazi

19. “When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually, you realize it’s about making the most of life.” — Britney Spears

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

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21. “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” — Victoria Holt

22. “You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” — John Green

23. “I mean, I am no love expert, but I’m pretty sure that the dude making you cry every day isn’t your soulmate.” — Anonymous

24. “I loved you; and perhaps I love you still, the flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet it burns so quietly within my soul, no longer should you feel distressed by it.” — Alexander Pushkin

25. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michael Faudet

26. “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.” — Anonymous

27. “Let go of the pain. You can do nothing about what went wrong yesterday, as it is not yours to judge. What’s the point of holding on to something that keeps you away from hope and love?” — Anonymous

28. “Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” — Sylvia Plath

29. “Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” — Anonymous

30. “Don’t tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you’ll see that it’s better.” — Orebela Gibenga

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31. “There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.” — Pearl Buck

32. “With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” — Federico Chini

33. “Don’t you dare for one more second surround yourself with people who are not aware of the awesomeness that you are.” — Karen Salmansohn

34. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho

35. “The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” — T.E. Kalem

36. “Never let a bad person change your inner goodness.” — Karen Salmansohn

37. “When you have a broken heart, and it is full of cracks, take some seeds of hope and plant them. Then pray and wait for a good rain.” — Anonymous

38. “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.” — Criss Jami

39. “If you have to beg someone to be in your life, they don’t belong there.” — Anonymous

40. “That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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

42. “Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?” — Donna Lynn Hope

43. “So since I’m still here livin’, I guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born.” — Langston Hughes

44. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” — Marilyn Monroe

45. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” — Sara Teasdale

46. “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.” — Alvy Singer, Annie Hall

47. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” — Jean de La Fontaine

48. “In the depths of despair, we will eventually find guiding light that will show us a way out.” — Anonymous

49. “If you are heartbroken and can’t face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won’t be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.” — Isabel Gillies

50. “The only way to fix a broken heart is to move your focus from the heart to the mind.” — Anonymous

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51. “Someday you will look back on this moment of your life and think of it as a sweet time of grieving. You will realize that you were mourning with a broken heart, but it was changing your life.” — Anonymous

52. “Heartbreak is a reminder that we gave someone the power to hurt us, but it’s also a reminder that we have the power to heal ourselves.” — Anonymous

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

54. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” — Mandy Hale

55. “Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.” — Rita Stradling

56. “Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push; you gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.” — Jerry Seinfeld

57. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” — Grant Gudmunson

58. “When someone walks out of your life, let them. They are just making room for someone better to walk in.” — Anonymous

59. “Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.” — Laura Fitzgerald

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

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61. “A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” — Marilyn Monroe

62. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” — Mark Twain

63. “It’s hard to let go of someone who has broken your heart, but it’s harder to hold on to something that was never there.” — Anonymous

64. “But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods.” — Truman Capote

65. “The only way to say goodbye is with peace in your heart, love in your soul, and a smile on your face.” — Anonymous

66. “I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and it’s part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.” — Heidi Klum

67. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.” — William Shakespeare

68. “Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreaks make you wiser, so thank the past for a better future.” — Unknown

69.“The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” — W. Somerset Maugham

70. “I often say, ‘My last relationship failed and didn’t paralyze me. My last heartache didn’t kill me. Why would this one? I will not break.” — Sujeiry Gonzalez

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71. “When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember.” — Nina Guilbeau

72. “The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, ‘it’s okay.’ It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s okay to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.” — Unknown

73. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” — Lord Byron

74. “Goodbye is not the end. It is simply a chapter that has ended and a new one that is about to begin.” — Anonymous

75. “Often, what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.” — Karen Salmansohn

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

77. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you … then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go.” — Drake

78. “Healing is an art. It takes time. It takes practice. It takes love.” — Unknown

79. “And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to.” — Khadija Rupa

80. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford

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81. “You can’t force someone to love you, but you can love yourself enough to let them go.” — Anonymous

82. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts

83. “The only way to get over a guy is to go out with another guy.” — Doris Day

84. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

85. “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.” — Anonymous

86. “Don’t let someone who left you define who you are. You are worth more than their decision to leave.” — Anonymous

87. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” — The Tinman

88. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” — E.A. Bucchianeri

89. “The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” — Max Lerner

90. “My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.” — Pablo Neruda

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91. “That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going.” — Zora Neale Hurston

92. “I will never feel guilty for loving you or say that I wish I had never met you because there was a time when you were exactly what I needed.” — Anonymous

93. “Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” — William C. Hannan

94. “No one loses love, but it returns to them to soften their heart and purify their soul.” — Anonymous

95. “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” — Jan Glidewell

96. “It’s not the breakup that hurts the most. It’s the post-traumatic stress that follows it.” — Susan J. Elliott

97. “A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” — J.S.B. Morse

98. “A heart can break in multiple ways. Stories are filled with heartbreaks caused by love. But true heartbreak happens when a dream is taken away. It doesn’t matter what the dream was, but when it is taken away, the heart breaks into the most pieces.” — Anonymous

99. “Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma

100. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” — Dante Alighieri

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101. “Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?” — Debra K. Messer

102. “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” — RuPaul

103. “Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.” — Toba Beta

104. “I am beginning to feel like the only way to truly get over someone that you cared a lot about is to start a new chapter.” — The Mindy Project

105. “You made my heart break and that made me who I am.” — Little Mix

106. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” —​ Roy T. Bennett

107. “I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is.” — Hannah Brown

108. “I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” — A.A. Milne

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

110. “The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.” — Shakieb Orgunwall

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111. “I would rather have my heart broken a thousand times than never to love at all. I have so much love to give — I’m not empty of love, I’m full of love.” — Cameron Diaz

112. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” — Sienna Miller

113. “You’ve got to value yourself and know that you’re worth everything. And until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can’t really have a healthy relationship.” — Jennifer Lopez

114. “Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurt and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.” — Anne Elisabeth Stengl

115. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” — Lord Byron

116. “Healing a broken heart starts with a decision, a conscious choice to move beyond pain and loss.” — Wayne Dyer

117. “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” — Leo Buscaglia

118. “I love you but I love me more.” — Samantha Jones

119. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” — Faraaz Kazi

120. “When we miss someone often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.” — Luigina Sgarro

I hope you enjoyed reading this collection of quotes on getting over heartbreak. What do you do when you’re struggling to get over a terrible heartbreak?

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