Breakups Quotes
169 quotes
"I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay"
"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever."
"One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up."
"He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me."
"I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?"
"When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better."
"Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise."
"Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality you’re showing how much you still care."
"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."
"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)"
"How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw."
"I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known."
"Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!"
"A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out."
"No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on."
"The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play."
"Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning."
"Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa."
"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."
"She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile…. All so you’d never know how heavy it really was."
"There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel."
"It didn’t hurt me. Not “hurt”. Hurt is a four letter word. It’s short, almost cute sounding. Aawwww, did that hurt? No. It didn’t hurt. Destroyed, Obliterated, Desecrated, Annihilated, Demolished, Shattered, or Demoralised maybe… But no. It didn’t hurt me. It didn’t “hurt” me at all."
"You made me feel worthwhile…. like for once it mattered if I was here or not because I actually meant something to someone…. because I meant something to you. I miss that feeling."
"Perhaps the echoes of people we once loved still linger in the places we frequented with them and that is why we go back… Not so much to remember them as to feel them…"
"i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart."
"A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond."
"A year of life spent with someone you love feels like a lifetime. Someone destroys that love it feels like a lifetime is gone. Why do people want to take lifetimes away?"
"Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you."
"It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed."
"We make the journey back to extraordinary love much more difficult for ourselves when we jump back in too quickly. It creates emotional chaos instead of the escape from pain we were hoping for."
"Her silence should be feared more than her words."
"After one my breakups, my former girlfriend said we have misunderstandings. We never had. It's just that I was living for the future while she was living for the tomorrow. I couldn't wait for someone unwilling to grow up and able to keep only short term promises."
"We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible."
"There’s a universalunderstanding betweenmen of the silent sorrowa man endures whenhe loses a woman heloves"
"When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea— on which I cannot walk —and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain."
Alice Walker, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
"Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together"
"If love was absent, you would not feel disappointed; you would feel indifferent."
"When things are falling apart, know they are actually falling into place."
"Love sucks sometimes. It can stretch you beyond what you feel you can endure. But you can, and you must get back to love and living!"
"Hold on, and dont put us on hold"
"Some people are meant to frame your destiny but not reach the destined destination with you."
"Love does not leave, it grows and transforms into something different."
"He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game."
"She didn't change her priorities, she just changed her source of entertainment."
"I HOLDIf I could have had him,I could have let himgo.But withoutthe having there was nothing—so to the nothingIhold."
"....finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed alongwhen something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game..."
"I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events, or whatever is important to you. I have the power and I use the power. I can change the course of your destiny. Contact me and I shall cast a spell for you. Tell me what it is you want and I shall go about my work. Is it someone or something you desire to have? Do you want wealth, or happiness, or a mate E.T.C.Chief OduduwaEmail: cheifoduduwa@gmail.com"
"A POCKET-SIZED GIRLHe keeps me in his pocket for a rainy day; he swears I'm not an object as he yo-yo's me away.A friend is what we'll call it,but my friend, he does not know,each time it rains I love him— so to his pocket, I must go.He thinks he's being clever,but I am not a fool;his love ain't worth a penny,so to my heart I must be cruel."
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