Broken Heart Quotes express the profound emotions associated with love, loss, and healing. When words fail during painful times, these quotes help articulate the feelings buried deep within. They capture the sorrow, despair, and longing, while also offering solace and understanding. Broken heart quotes remind us that heartbreak is a universal human experience, and that we are not alone in our suffering.
Reading these quotes can provide comfort, allowing you to process your emotions and find strength during difficult times. Sometimes, simply seeing your feelings put into words is the first step towards healing.
1. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
2. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
3. “Love is lost through no fault of the lover’s heart.” – Margaret Mitchell
4. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
5. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
6. “A broken heart is an open heart.” – Elizabeth Lesser
7. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” – William Shakespeare
8. “Broken hearts heal, but the scars remain.” – Unknown
9. “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
10. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” – Unknown
11. “Love doesn’t hurt. Loving the wrong person does.” – Unknown
12. “The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.” – Anonymous
13. “It takes a lot of courage to break your own heart.” – Unknown
14. “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” – John Greenleaf Whittier
15. “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I really am?” – Shannon Alder
16. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
17. “Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.” – Violeta Parra
18. “There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate…” – Marian Anderson
19. “Nothing is lonelier than to be in love and alone.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. “Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” – Martin Buxbaum
21. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
22. “Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore
23. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
24. “Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.” – Anonymous
25. “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
26. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Anonymous
27. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
28. “Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
29. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
30. “Sometimes, heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize He saved you from the wrong one.” – Unknown
31. “What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.” – Jewish Proverb
32. “Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
33. “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
34. “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare
35. “It hurts to breathe because every breath I take proves I can’t live without you.” – Unknown
36. “The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.” – John Vance Cheney
37. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
38. “One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.” – Unknown
39. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
40. “The saddest part of loving someone is not losing them, but losing yourself along the way.” – Unknown
41. “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
42. “A light heart lives long.” – William Shakespeare
43. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart…” – Rumi
44. “The saddest thing about love is that not only can it not last forever, but heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
45. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.” – Khalil Gibran
46. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
47. “A broken heart is what changes people.” – Anonymous
48. “My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.” – Pablo Neruda
49. “The heart breaks, but broken lives on.” – Lord Byron
50. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
51. “I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” – Christie Brinkley
52. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable.” – Neil Gaiman
53. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” – Ranata Suzuki
54. “I have lost, and loved, and won, and cried myself to the person I am today.” – Charlotte Eriksson
55. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” – Anaïs Nin
56. “Hearts are made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
57. “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady, but it is not easy.” – Salman Rushdie
58. “Nothing hurts like being disappointed by the one person you thought would never hurt you.” – Gugu Mofokeng
59. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” – Steve Maraboli
60. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
61. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
62. “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
63. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
64. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmundson
65. “Sometimes you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.” – Unknown
66. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” – Ella Harper
67. “The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.” – Sanober Khan
68. “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
69. “The worst feeling is not being lonely. It’s being forgotten by someone you could never forget.” – Unknown
70. “Sometimes, the one who loves you is the one who hurts you the most.” – Paulo Coelho
71. “You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
72. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri
73. “When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven.” – Rabindranath Tagore
74. “Some people think that holding on makes you stronger, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
75. “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.” – Unknown
76. “Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push; you gotta rock it back and forth.” – Jerry Seinfeld
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