150 Quotes That Will Help Heal a Broken Heart

Heartbreak and loss can be some of life's toughest challenges to overcome. Whether it's the end of a relationship, the loss of a loved one, or the betrayal of a friend, the pain can feel insurmountable. During these times, words of wisdom and comfort can be a beacon of hope, reminding us that we're not alone in our struggles and that healing is possible.  That's why we've compiled a collection of 150 Powerful Broken Heart Quotes. 

Broken Heart Quotes About Love And Loss

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can’t make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time. Maybe that loss is the motivation for us to take time for ourselves next to the good things that lie ahead.

• “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” - Washington Irving

• “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” - Unknown

• “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” - Richard Bach

• “Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.” - Javan

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

• “The heart was made to be broken.” - Oscar Wilde

• “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” - William Faulkner

• “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.” - Unknown

• “Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” - Henry David Thoreau

• “The greatest tragedy of life is not that we die, but what dies inside us while we live.” - Norman Cousins

  

• “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

• “Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” - Barbara De Angelis

• “Love is like a rose, it’s beautiful but it can hurt you.” - Unknown

• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” - Edgar Allan Poe

Broken Heart Quotes About Grief

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Love never dies, and spririt knows no loss. Keep in mind that a broken heart is an open heart.

• “Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.” —Jojo Moyes, After You

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

• “There is something bleak and barren about a world that is  who knows you best.” —Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

• “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” —Unknown

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

• “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” —Carroll Bryant

• “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” —Rob Liano

• “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” —Emily Dickinson

  

• “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” —Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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

• “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” —Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

• “When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” —Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

• “And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” —Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

• “Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” —Euripides, Herakles

• “Everything is gone except traces of you inside me—and the years like the wind are sweeping those away.” —John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

Broken Heart Quotes About Moving On

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been live.

• “It is important to let go of the past and move on to the future. You can’t move forward if you’re always looking back.” - Unknown

• “Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting, it means accepting what happened, acknowledging it, and then letting it go.” - Unknown

• “The only way to get over a broken heart is to find a new love that is stronger and better than the last one.” - Unknown

• “Letting go is hard, but sometimes holding on is harder.” - Unknown

• “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” - Rumi

• “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” - Unknown

• “Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein

  

• “Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.” - Unknown

• “Pain will leave you when you let go.” - Jeremy Aldana

• “Moving on is a process, not an event. It takes time and it’s something that you have to work on every day.” - Unknown

• “The only way to heal a broken heart is to give yourself time and permission to grieve, and then focus on moving forward.” - Unknown

• “Change can be scary, but it can also be exciting. It’s all about perspective.” - Unknown

• “You can’t move forward if you’re always looking back.” - Unknown

• “Life is too short to waste time on things that don’t matter. Focus on what’s important and move on from what’s not.” - Unknown

• “Holding on is believing that there’s a past, but moving on is knowing that there’s a future.” - Unknown

Heart Break Quotes

I wish that I had never met you. Then there would be no need to impress you. No need to want you. No need to love you. No need to cry over you. No need for heartbreaks. No need for pain or tears. No need for forgotten promises. No need for a rejected hug. No need to cry myself. No need for everything you’ve done to make me feel like absolutely nothing

• “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” –Maya Angelou

• “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” –James Baldwin

• “You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.” –Leila Sales, “Past Perfect”

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

• “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

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

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

• “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” —Marilyn Monroe

  

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

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

• “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, “Now and at the Hour of Our Death”

• “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” —Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”

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

• “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” –Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Goodbye Broken Heart Quotes

When people make you feel unwanted, don’t leave to make them feel sad or guilty, they won’t. Leave because you no longer have a reason to stay. Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself. What’s meant to be will end up good and what’s not - won’t. Love is worth fighting for, but sometimes you can’t be the only one fighting. At times, people need to fight for you. If they don’t you just have to move on and realize what you gave them was more than they were willing to give you and more than they deserve.

• “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Herman Hesse

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

• “There are many stages of grief. It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.” — Jennifer Aniston

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

• “We draw maps of each other’s pasts. Heartbreaks colored in black. We are so scared and brave. We are so terrified and willing. We rewrite the definition of brave and it is this: love again. Love again. Love again.” — Fortesa Latifi

• “You can die of a broken heart — it’s scientific fact — and my heart has been breaking since that very first day we met. I can feel it now, aching deep behind my rib cage the way it does every time we’re together, beating a desperate rhythm: Love me. Love me. Love me.” — Abby McDonald

• “God is closest to those with broken hearts.” — Jewish Proverb

  

• “It is a curious sensation: The sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” — George Bernard Shaw

• “You’re leaving me. Then go in peace. And let your wish alone be lamp to light your path. And find tranquillity where’er you be.” — Chaim Nachman Bialik

• “Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson

• “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

• “Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.” — Alessandra Torre

• “If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart?” — Damon Suede

• “He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.” — Shannon A. Thompson

• “This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.” ― Wendy Wunder

Heartbreak Movie Quotes

• People often say that movies are just fiction and everything is written according to a script, but those scripts are things made up of emotions and everyday stories to create authenticity for things. there. And the brokenness and suffering that hearts endure in those movies is the common voice of many people in current love relationships.

• “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” –Tin Man, “The Wizard of Oz”

• “But if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you, though. I remember everyone that leaves.” –Lilo, “Lilo & Stitch”

• “I want you to know that you were the last dream of my soul.” –“The Last Samurai”

• “Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it.” –Jack, “Brokeback Mountain”

• “I’m always gonna love you,” –Mia, “La La Land”

  

• “So I was crying. Because I don’t know if I love you any more. And I don’t know what I’m going to do without that.” –Cal Jarret, “Ordinary People”

• “It’s these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they’re to blame for all the lies and the heartache, everything.” –Tom Hansen, “500 Days of Summer”

• “Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?” –Sam Button, “Perks of Being a Wallflower”

• “I don’t know how to say goodbye. I can’t think of any words.” –Princess Ann, “Roman Holiday”

• "What a beautiful place … to be with friends." — "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”.

• "It's not your fault." — "Good Will Hunting”.

• "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." — "2001: A Space Odyssey”.

• "I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." — "On the Waterfront”.

• "You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope." — "The Hunger Games”.

• "I have lost the will to live. Everything I have ever cared about has abandoned me. I have nothing to live for." — "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith”.

Heartbreak Song Lyrics

When brokenness is a view of sadness, suffering or our inability to endure or look back, the fact that it is expressed through melodies and lyrics is what touches the depths of the heart. , the soul of every human being. It is empathy, sharing and soothing the soul of each person

• “Sunflowers in the kitchen, a heartbreak in remission / The universe is shifting and it’s all for me/ Thank God, I let it go.” –Maisie Peters, “There It Goes”

• “I scratched out your name and your face / What is it about you that I can’t erase, baby? / Well every promise don’t work out that way” –Beyoncé, “Sandcastles”

• “Cause there we are again when I loved you so.” –Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”

• “I don’t wanna see you with anyone but me/ Only like myself when I’m with you / Nobody gets me, you do (do).” –SZA, “Nobody Gets Me”

• “I fell in love with a war and nobody told me it ended,” –Mitski, “A Pearl”

  

• “Nothing happened in the way I wanted / Every corner of this house is haunted / And I know you said that we’re not talking / But I miss you, I’m sorry.” –Gracie Abrams, “I miss you, I’m sorry”

• “And now you got me thinking / Two plus two equals five / And I’m the love of your life / No, love is never logical.” –Olivia Rodrigo, “Logical”

• “I’ll be waiting for you when you’re ready to love me again / I’ll put my hands up / I’ll be somebody different, I’ll be better to you” –Adele, “I’ll Be Waiting”

• “If I was empty space, and you were a formless/ But love leaves little runway and every time I run / Straight over it.” –Noah Kahan, “Strawberry Wine”

• “‘Cause saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts / Flashbacks waking me up / I get drunk, but it’s not enough.” –Taylor Swift, “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

• “I was thinkin’ about who you are / Your delicate point of view, I / Was thinkin’ about you.” –Harry Styles, “Little Freak”

• “So I will wait for the next time you want me / Like a dog with a bird at your door.” –Phoebe Bridgers, “Moon Song”

• “Ooh, I didn’t wanna leave you, baby / I didn’t wanna fight / Started to cry, but then remembered I.” –Miley Cyrus “Flowers”

• “We’d always go into it blindly / I needed to lose you to find me / This dance, it was killing me softly.” –Selena Gomez, “Lose You to Love Me”

• “If your hands need to break / More than trinkets in your room / You can lean on my arm / As you break my heart.” –Mitski, “I Don’t Smoke”

Crushed Heart Quotes

The world feels muted, colors dulled by the ache in your chest. Each beat of your heart is a dull throb, a constant reminder of the love lost. Memories flicker, both joyous and painful, taunting you with what used to be. But for now, you simply hold the pieces of your broken heart, waiting for the day they can be pieced back together.

• "I don't know what hurts more, missing you or pretending not to." - Unknown

• "It's amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• "The only thing worse than a broken heart is knowing you would give them another chance to break it again." - Unknown

• "You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you miss them." - John Green

• "Maybe it's not about the happy ending, maybe it's about the story." - Erin Van Vuren

• "Sometimes the person you fall for isn't ready to catch you." - Jennifer Salaiz

• "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) wherever I go, or whatever is done, your heart is with mine, alone." - E. E. Cummings

• "She was a storm, and he was just a boy trying to hold an umbrella." - John Green

  

• "It's hard to let go of something that was never really yours." - Unknown

• "I gave you my all. Apparently, that wasn't enough." - Unknown

• "There are nights when the only feeling I have is the absence of you." - Lang Leav

• "I miss you like an amputee misses their limb. It's a phantom pain, ever-present." - Cassandra Clare

• "The ache in your heart is the price you pay for love." - E.B. White

• "You left a hole in my heart the size of Texas." - Unknown

• "I'm learning to smile again, even though my heart still aches." - Unknown

These 150 Powerful Broken Heart Quotes offer a glimpse into the comprehensive emotions that can arise after experiencing heartbreak. They provide comfort, inspiration, and a way to process and express the difficult emotions that come with loss, grief, regret, and moving on. Whether you're currently experiencing heartbreak or seeking solace after a difficult experience, these quotes can offer insight and encouragement to help you heal and move forward.