70+ Breakup Quotes

If you are not sure where you stand with someone, then it might be time to start walking.


It is better to be alone than to be with someone who makes you feel all alone.


The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.


It’s sad how people claim to love and care about you and yet they replace you so quickly.


What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?


When you are trying to heal from a breakup, be kind to yourself and do not be impatient with your progress. You will not get over this in a day. These things take time.


Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama


Sometimes you just have to live your life, even if that means letting go of someone who meant the world to you.


I could never hate you for not loving me anymore, but I hate myself because I still love you.


If you were the one that did the breaking up, do not feel bad, for you set that other person free to find someone who loves them for who they are.


The heart was made to be broken. – Oscar Wilde


The worst feeling in the world is when you know that you both love each other but you just can’t be together.


I am a good enough person to forgive you, but I am not stupid enough to trust you again.


Never cry for the person who has hurt you. Just smile and thank them for giving you a chance to find someone better who actually deserve you.


Just because I let you go, it does not mean that I wanted to.


Trust can take years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.


Love is unconditional, but relationships are not.


Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. — Guy Finley


Some people think that holding on makes you stronger, but sometimes it is the opposite. Sometimes, letting go can make you stronger.


Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. — Lucille Ball


It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been together or how many love struggles you’ve been through; if it is not meant then it is nothing.


Never regret a relationship that has ended. If it was good, then that is wonderful. If it was bad, then you have experience.


No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.


Moving on is easy, but it is staying moved that is the challenge.


If someone makes you miserable more than they make you happy, then it is time to let them go, no matter how much you love them.


Breaking up is like having the worst nightmare right after having the best dream.


A breakup, while sad, can make for a great life lesson.


One of cruelest things a person can do is to awaken someone’s love without the intention of truly loving them.


It is sad how someone can go from being the reason you were smiling to being the reason that you cry yourself to sleep.


The thing about happiness is that it doesn’t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So, I’m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. — Lana Turner


Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. — Oscar Wilde


Nobody ever said that letting go was easy, but holding on to something that is no longer there can be just as difficult. You might as well choose the path that moves you forward.


Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.


Close your eyes, clear your heart, and let it go.


Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more.. The memories of you… Or the happy person I used to be. – Ranata Suzuki


There is nothing less lonely than when someone you care about becomes a complete stranger.


To love someone enough to let them go, you have to let them go forever. If you don’t, then you never really loved them much at all.


You cannot start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.


In some relationships there comes a time when the two people just outgrow each other.


The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.


It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.


If someone cheats on you, then they do not deserve you.


Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.


If someone wants to leave, let them. You want to surround yourself with people who want to be in your life.


When you cheat, not only do you break someone’s heart, you break the chance of a future as well.


To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil


You treated me like an option, so I left you like a choice.


I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. – Dr. Seuss


The people who are quick to walk away are the ones who never meant to stick around.


One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your heart.


It can be very hard to move on when you don’t know why you have broken up in the first place.


Don’t look too long at a door that has closed that you don’t even notice when a new door has opened itself to you.


After a breakup, the memories are fresh and the pain is still raw. But after some time, it all fades away and you start to heal.


It amazes me how someone can drop you out of their life like you never existed after you shared everything with them.


A breakup is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave then risk hurting yourself trying to pick up all of the broken pieces.


It takes just a few seconds to say hello, but it takes forever to say goodbye.


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


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


The hottest love has the coldest end. – Socrates


I never wanted anything except to be your everything.


All I ever wanted was to be your everything.


It is the hardest thing not being able to talk to someone that you used to talk to every day.


As you get over this heartbreak, know that there is something better out there waiting for you.


It is one of the hardest things in life to let go of something that you once thought was real.


Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn’t respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss.


Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.


All I did was love you and all you did was hurt me.


Every breakup gives you a chance to do it right the next time.


Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.


Two people who break up could never be friends. If they can stay friends, then it means that they are still in love or that they never were.


I wonder how long it will be before I am just a memory.


The hardest thing I’ve ever done was walk away when I still loved you.


If you really love someone, set them free. If they do not come back to you, then it was not meant to be.


You might not see it now, but sometimes a breakup is for the better.


Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.


The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to everyday.


Sometimes you have to forget what you want in order to remember what you deserve.


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