250+ Wise Broken Heart Quotes To Help You Move Forward

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You have recently gone through heartbreak and find it hard to cope with the overwhelming emotions. Well, heartbreaks are difficult, but some thoughtful broken heart quotes can help you move through this phase by introspecting your feelings. Love is a beautiful feeling. You seem to be at the top of the world. However, if a relationship breaks, it hurts. The magic that had once existed seems to be lost. Heartbreaks may bring you pain, disbelief, sadness, and loneliness. Healing a heartbreak takes time, detachment, and soul searching. Have patience with yourself while you deal with your emotions. Though nobody can take away your pain immediately, this post tries to console you through touching heart broken quotes.

250+ Broken Heart Quotes

It might be a difficult time, but know that you are not alone. Here are some heartbreak quotes that will help you overcome this difficult period and deal with your emotions of anguish and gloom.

1. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” —Marilyn Monroe
2. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” —Patti Roberts

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3. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” —Violeta Parra
4. “With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” —Federico Chini
5. The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it… —Nicholas Sparks
6. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” —Aman Jassal
7. “Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.” —Rita Stradling
8. “Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.” —Matshona Dhliwayo
9. “Must I go bound while you go free
   Must I love a man who doesn’t love me
   Must I be born with so little art
   As to love a man who’ll break my heart” —Cassandra Clare
10. “It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love” —Eric Kripke
11. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
12. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” —Bette Davis
13. “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” —Charles M. Schulz
14. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” —Lord Byron
15. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” —The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz
16. “Only God can mend a broken heart.” —Kevin Walker
17. “Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore

18. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” —Mineko Iwasaki
19. “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” —Fulton J. Sheen
20. “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
21. “The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.” —Anmol Rawat
22. “Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!” —Jocelyn Soriano
23. “Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…” —Elizabeth Gilbert
24. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” —Carroll Bryant
25. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” —Aubrey Drake Graham

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26. “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” —Andrea Gibson
27. “Hearts were made to be broken.” —Oscar Wilde
28. “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” —Cassandra Clare
29. “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
30. “The clouds wept when my heart sang a song of sorrow.”—Sonya Watson
31. “Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
    Nor any place be empty quite;
    Therefore I think my breast hath all
    Those pieces still, though they be not unite;
    And now, as broken glasses show
    A hundred lesser faces, so
    My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
    But after one such love, can love no more.” —John Donne
32. “There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.” —Ashley Lorenzana
33. “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
34. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” —E.A. Bucchianeri
35. “You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It’s just a matter of willpower: The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.” —Junot Díaz
36. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living worthwhile.” —Mia Asher
37. “I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” —Christie Brinkley
38. “You can’t let yourself love because you think your heart can’t handle it… that something bad will happen. But you’re wrong. It’s true… Grief is the price for love. But hearts are made to mend. Christ can do wonders with a broken heart if given all the pieces.” —Suzanne Woods Fisher
39. “Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.” —Jon Voight
40. “You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.” —Douglas Booth
41. “I hate you for all the years I’ll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?” —Lisa Kleypas
42. “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” —Drake
43. “I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.” —Denice Envall
44. “So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.” —Ariana
45. “I could take chances with my heart and I would be able to bounce back, and anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end. “ —Elizabeth Eulberg
46. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” —Julia Roberts

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47. “Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else’s brokenness.” —Munia Kahn
48. “I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.” —Charlotte Eriksson
49. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” —Washington Irving
50. “A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. It’s a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won’t think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
51. “You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.” —Isabel Gillies
52. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” —Alysha Speer
53. “To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only one person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.” —Jocelyn Soriano
54. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” —Faraaz Kazi
55. “A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.” —Martha Gellhorn
56. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”—Richard Puz
57. “A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying ‘Long time no see’.” —Phyllis Batelle
58. “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.“—Jocelyn Soriano
59. “It’s funny how artistic we become when our hearts are broken” —Hotel Books
60. “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” —Miss Piggy
61. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
62. “Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?” —Debra K. Messer
63. “A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. […] It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams as if there were nothing the matter with it.” —Lucy Maud Montgomery
64. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” —Sienna Miller
65. “Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.“ —Toba Beta
66. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” —H.C. Paye
67. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, “I want to know why!” —Shannon L. Alder
68. “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.” —April Mae Monterrosa
69. “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.” —Jodi Picoult
70. “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” —D.H. Lawrence
71. “Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing.”—Dorothy Parker
72. “The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.” —Mary Kay Andrews

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73. “Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.” —Morgan Rhodes
74. “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
75. “Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.” —Patti Roberts
76. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” —Charles Dickens
77. “It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.” —Steve Maraboli
78. “Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” —Warsan Shire
79. “However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.” —Manna Francis
80. “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
81. “Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.” —Gregory Roberts
82. “I’ve been on the floor and I’ve been heartbroken. I didn’t know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.” —Sandra Bullock
83. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.“ —Faraaz Kazi
84. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” —Sara Teasdale
85. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” —Mark Twain
86. “when you are broken
    and he has left you
    do not question
    whether you were
    enough
    the problem was
    you were so enough
    he was not able to carry it” -Rupi Kaur
87. “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s” —Margaret George
88. “God is closest to those with broken hearts.” —Jewish Proverb
89. “Don’t you EVER break someone’s heart, because they only have one. Break their bones, they have 206 of those!”—Jayy Von Monroe
90. “The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” —T.E. Kalem
91. “Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over.“ —Maggi Richard
92. “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
93. “Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.” —Ashleyy
94. “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
95. “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” —Christina Westover
96. “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 Buscagalia
97. “I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive.“ —Patti Roberts
98. “The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.” —Robert James Waller
99. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” —Steve Maraboli
100. “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
101. “Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.” —Laura Kasischke
102. “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.” —Pearl S. Buck
103. “Still, you have to leave your broken heart in a place where- when the woman who knows how to see what a gift is, sees it- your broken heart can be picked up again.” —C. JoyBell C.
104. “Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete.” —Anmol Rawat
105. “When you are standing in [a] forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
106. “‘Hearts are breakable,’ Isabelle said. ‘And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.’” —Cassandra Clare
107. “She remembered the day vividly, for how can you forget the day your heart is broken? The funny thing about a broken heart is that it’s not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues on and you have no choice but to continue on with it. You take the hand that fate has dealt you and you press forward because there is nothing else that can be done.” —Tracy Winegar
108. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” -Steve Maraboli
109. “Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.” —Toba Beta
110. “It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.” —Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

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111. “A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember.” —Anthony Liccione
112. “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” —J.M. Barrie
113. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” —Stelle Atwater
114. “I know my heart will never be the same But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” —Sara Evans
115. “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” —Jeffery Eugenides
116. “Let’s hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.” —Mansi Soni
117. “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
118. “Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.” — Miranda Kenneally
119. “I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.” —Sue Augustine
120. “Love hurts when it changes us.” —Toba Beta
121. “This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice.” —James Patterson
122. “And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are” -Taylor Swift
123. “Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.” —Laura Fitzgerald
124. “Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” — Stephen R. Covey
125. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” — Leonardo da Vinci
126. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” — Miguel de Unamuno
127. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” ― Faraaz Kazi
128. “If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.” — Thomas Otway
129. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” — Ella Harper
130. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” — Steve Maraboli
131. “When you think your first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.” — David Grayson
132. “You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” — Johnny Depp
133. “Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” — Mattie Stepanek
134. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” —  Jim Rohn
135. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
136. “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” ― Jodi Picoult
137. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” ― Mary Manin Morrissey
138. “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” ― Samuel Butler
139. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror” ― Byrd Baggett
140. “Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your life, they’ll catch up.” ― Mandy Hale
141. “Don’t let the scars on your heart define the way you love.” ― Laura Chouette
142. “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman
143. “I choose not to project my past onto my future.” ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
144. “Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.” — Mario Teguh
145. “There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.” — Jean Anouilh
146. “Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” — Hermann Hesse
147. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” — Deborah Reber
148. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.” — Mandy Hale
149. “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
150. “The only thing standing between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” — Joel Brown
151. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell
152. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley
153. “It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.” — Phil McGraw
154. “If you really love someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re yours. If they don’t, they never were.” — Richard Bach
155. “The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.” — Tigress Luv
156. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” — Deepak Chopra
157. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” — Lao Tzu
158. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather learning to start over.” — Nicole Sobon
159. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” — Tom Stoppard
160. “You are only destined to become one person – the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
161. “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” — Victoria Holt
162. “The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” — Alan Moore
163. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun.” — Tupac Shakur
164. “You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.” — Sharon Creech
165. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” — Margaret Mitchell
166. “What hurts us is what heals us.” — Paulo Coelho
167. “I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon my strength.” — Alex Elle
168. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
169. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need.” — The Rolling Stones
170. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” — Steve Maraboli
171. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” — Roy T. Bennett
172. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” — Rumi
173. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — M. Kathleen Casey
174. “By forgiving and choosing to move on, one takes the power back to morph it into positive energy.” — Eugenia Tripputi
175. “Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.” — Usher
176. “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner
177. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” — Grant Gudmundson
178. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
179. “Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.” — Jerry Seinfeld
180. “Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!” — Allison Gappa Bottke
181. “Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma
182. “We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.” — Leo F. Buscaglia
183. “If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.” — Catherine Aird
184. “We are never ever getting back together… Like ever.” — Taylor Swift
185. “Thank you, next.” — Ariana Grande
186. “It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.” — Ovid
187. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” — Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind
188. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah
189. “The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” — Mohadesa Najumi
190. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hesse
191. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” — Stephen King
192. “We have to be whole people to find whole love” — Cheryl Strayed
193. “I don’t think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren’t much of a breakup.” — Chris Young
194. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.” ― Jodi Picoult
195. “Your past does not equal your future.” ― Anthony Robbins
196. “Heartbroken? Channel your sorrow to become worthy of love. The world will be yours.” — Tapan Ghosh
197. “The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.” — Robert Tew
198. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” — Paulo Coelho
199. “Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.” — Genevieve Rhode
200. “What we learn is worth more than what we lose.”― Elizabeth Langston
201. “To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.” ― Diana Wynne Jones
202. “If someone doesn’t care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don’t hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana
203. “I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished.”― Mikhail Lermontov
204. “Don’t leave anything for anyone who is eventually going to leave you.”― Omer Dar
205. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” — Jeffrey McDaniel
206. “When you leave weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.. — Kim Sowol​
207. “I can’t be in your life, you can’t be in my life. I can’t do this anymore. I’m done.” — Josh, Younger
208. “Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.” — Marcia Wieder
209. “Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.” — Javan
210. “Kiss away the past as you head towards the future.”― Imania Margria
211. “Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.” — Corey Johnson
212. “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” — Albert Camus
213. “To get over a bad break up just get a good haircut. It really works”― Disha
214. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
215. “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.. — Frank Ocean
216. “Take a step back today, look at all those beautiful things you have.. — Rick Warren
217. “The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.” — Rebecca Solnit
218. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” — Lucille Ball
219. “There’s moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.” — Ashlee Simpson
220. “I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.” — Neil Gaiman
221. “I love the ones who are in my life and make it amazing and I thank the ones who left my life and made it even more fantastic.”― Mr. Never Give Up
222. “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.” — Fridtjof Nansen
223. “Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute.” — Trina Etmanskie
224. “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.” — Omar Khayyam
225. “He’s going to be sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain and remember what an incredible woman you are.. — Drake
226. “The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” — Gwyneth Paltrow
227. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” — Robert Frost
228. “I love you begins by I, but it ends up by you.” — Charles de Leusse
229. “Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” — Len Santos
230. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” ― Jojo Moyes
231. “It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more they wants to get away.” — Henry Rollins
232. “Hearts live by being wounded.” — Oscar Wilde
233. “All the broken hearts in the world still beat.” ― Ingrid Michaelson
234. “You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone.” — The Goddess Rebellion
235. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” ― Mimi Novic
236. “I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.” — Carrie Brownstein
237. “A single heartbreak teaches you more than what a lifetime of schooling can.”― Vineet Raj Kapoor
238. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” — Carl Sandburg
239. “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
240. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” — Walter Anderson
241. “I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye.” ― Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
242. “How do you know when it’s over?.. Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you. — Gunnar Ardelius
243. “Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength.” — Karen Salmanson
244. “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” — Alyson Noel
245. “Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.” — Joel Osteen
246. “I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized I never needed it.” ― Nicole Christie
247. “So for now, I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” — Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill
248. “I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” — Winnie the Pooh
249. “Let’s face it, when you are heartbroken, you do not make the best decisions, and the decisions you make now will affect the rest of your healing journey.” — Tatiana Jerome
250. “Sometimes, I don’t know what haunts me more… The memories of you… Or the happy person I used to be.” — Ranata Suzuki
251. “It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life.”― Gift Gugu Mona
252. “The choice isn’t to move on—life moves whether I want it to or not. No, the choice is to look forward, not backward, to take a step because refusing to move won’t draw the past nearer, only postpone better days.”― Caroline George
253. “There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal.” —Edmond Mbiaka
254. “When you feel in love with an ex, it isn’t that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.” — Robin Lopez

Illustration: Wise Broken Heart Quotes To Help You Move Forward

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Infographic: Broken Heart Quotes

At the end of your despair, you will always find solace in the most unexpected places. And this infographic can be your place of comfort during a heartbreak. From learning the bitter truth to finding hope to keep going forward, these quotes speak the words that will help you ease the pain of heartache.

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Hearbreaks are painful. But there are ways to cope with it. Check out these inspiring quotes to help you heal and move on. These quotes will remind you that you are not alone in this.

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Dr. Dave Jenkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and is the founder of Fredericksburg Relationship Center, LLC. After obtaining his Doctorate of Ministry in Family Therapy and Master of Divinity from Amridge University, he joined the US Army as a mental health counselor.

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