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Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.
Sep 10, 2025
After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.
I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.
People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.
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I'm not one of those people who are like always joking in person.
The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.
I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.
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.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
The heart was made to be broken.
You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.
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.
I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.
The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
When your ex says ‘You’ll never find anyone like me’. Say ‘that’s the point’.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you’ve broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair.
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.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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