After Breakup Quotes

Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

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

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

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’.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

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.

'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.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.