Embracing the Hurt: 50 Broken Love Quotes to Mend Your Heart

Have you ever felt like your heart has been shattered into a million pieces? When the love you once believed in falls apart, it can seem like the end of the world. But you're not alone; we've all been there, and we know how hard it can be to bounce back from such an emotionally trying experience. So, if you're going through heartache and looking for solace, get ready to embark on an adventure that will stir up a mix of emotions and guide you to healing.

Broken love quotes are here to lift you up, offering a safe space to vent your pain, grasp the lessons, and ultimately grow. This exciting journey through the realm of heartbreak will not only reignite your hope but also remind you of the incredible resilience of the human spirit.

As you read through these quotes, imagine hearing the voice of a friend by your side, one who knows exactly how you feel and is intent on helping you find light amidst the darkness. We'll giggle together, shed a tear or two, and face the truth about love it isn't always easy. But, by the end, you'll see that you have the power to overcome the pain and rediscover your true self.

Buckle up and get ready to be inspired, consoled, and entertained by these broken love quotes that will navigate you through the roller coaster of emotions and bring you out stronger on the other side. Let's dive into the healing power of words together!

Table of Contents

• Broken Love Quotes

• Heartbroken Love Quotes

• Broken Love Quotes from Songs

• Broken Love Quotes from Movies

• Broken Love Quotes About Her

• Broken Love Quotes About Him

• Broken Love Quotes About Regret

• Broken Love Quotes About Moving On

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Broken Love Quotes

1. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. - Mark Twain

2. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Haruki Murakami

3. The heart was made to be broken. - Oscar Wilde

4. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving

5. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

6. When you think your heart is already broken, it can still break a bit more. - Sharon Olds

7. Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

8. It’s hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again. - Eric Kripke

9. We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her. - Rae Hacton

10. Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. - Oscar Wilde

11. As painful as this thing has been, I just can’t be with no one else. - Rihanna

12. 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

13. When one door closes another door opens, but it is hell in the hallway. - Anonymous

14. 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

15. Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you. - Cecily von Ziegesar

16. Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities. - Patti Roberts

17. It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes an even stronger heart to continue to love after it's been hurt. - Anonymous

18. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Kahlil Gibran

19. Heaven doesn't seem far away when we're together. But now that you're gone, heaven feels as if it's on the other side of the universe. - J.Z.

20. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. - Andrea Gibson

Heartbroken Love Quotes

1. Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget. - Alysha Speer

2. Breathe. You're going to be okay. Breathe and remember that you've been in this place before. - Iain Thomas

3. Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities. - Patti Roberts

4. Until this moment, I had not realised that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. - Jodi Picoult

5. Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away. - Ashleyy

6. Hearts live by being wounded. - Oscar Wilde

7. 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

8. When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth. - Sienna Miller

9. So, here you are. Too foreign for home, too foreign for here. Never enough for both. - Ijeoma Umebinyuo

10. When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. - Jane Fonda

11. 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

12. When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a broken heart, there's a refining, a shredding of the old. - Victoria Osteen

13. I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you? - Tabitha Suzuma

14. When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind. - Shannon L. Alder

15. Just let me keep the last piece of my heart, before you tear it all apart. - Lykke Li

16. Just because I am strong enough to handle the pain doesn’t mean I deserve it. - Anonymous

17. People go through life with their heart on the sleeve, while others have it deep within, unyielding. - Virginia Alison

18. Your heart may be broken, and that’s okay. Pieces of your heart are everywhere, but they will eventually all come back together. - Lilly Maroutian

19. Every heart, every heart to love will come, but like a refugee. - Leonard Cohen

20. I've been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that. - Alexandra Elle

Broken Love Quotes from Songs

1. I'm in pieces, it's tearing me up, but I know a heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved. - Ed Sheeran, Supermarket Flowers

2. I know people make promises all the time, then they turn right around and break them. - Taylor Swift, All Too Well

3. I gave my all for you, now my heart's in two. - Mariah Carey, Heartbreaker

4. Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. - The Fray, All at Once

5. Tell me with the heart that burst into a thousand pieces, where is the restart? - SZA, Broken Clocks

6. How to fix up a heart that I let down? - Justin Bieber, Sorry

7. We are just like glass, we can shatter and break if we crash. - Ellie Goulding, Explosions

8. I tore up all your roses and watched the petals fall to the floor. - Post Malone, Too Young

9. I was diamond. Now, I’m stone. I watched you shatter. I’m alone. - Billie Eilish, Your Power

10. Through a broken mirror, love isn’t so blind. - Destiny's Child, Through With Love

11. Now tears in a suitcase, fear won't erase them. - Bruno Mars, When I Was Your Man

12. Wasted so much of my life, I forgot what it feels like to be in love. - The Weeknd, Heartless

13. I know it ain't right but I don't care. - Rihanna, Breakin' Dishes

14. You don’t know what you got till it’s gone. - Jon Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

15. Time is the only thing I wish was mine. - Coldplay, Another's Arms

16. I’ll never love again, oh boy, you’ve left me speechless. - Lady Gaga, Speechless

17. You didn’t even mean to start, but I’ll be damned if it ain’t an art. - Halsey, You Should Be Sad

18. Even when I realise I can't not be with you or ever be just friends, I know I ain't perfect, but how you gonna leave without no goodbye? - Lauv, Sad Forever

19. You can’t see tears in the pouring rain. - Adele, Rolling in the Deep

20. Your words cut deeper than a knife, now I need someone to breathe me back to life. - Sia, Alive

Broken Love Quotes from Movies

1. It's not your fault she's dead. - Tyler, Remember Me

2. You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story. - Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

3. You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same. - Ninny, Fried Green Tomatoes

4. So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. - Noah, The Notebook

5. The hardest thing is loving someone and then having the courage to let them love you back. - Sara, The Wedding Date

6. He looks at me everyday. Everyday, he looks at me... but he does not see me. - Sheba, Notes on a Scandal

7. Our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it. - Landon, A Walk to Remember

8. I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. - Seth, City of Angels

9. She is gone. She is gone and you have to face that. - Julian, The English Patient

10. I was the place you didn't want to leave; however hard I tried, I would never be there again. - Cecilia Tallis, Atonement

11. I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours. - Edward, Sense and Sensibility

12. Smile though your heart is aching. - Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times

13. I will miss you, like I miss her. - Nina, Like Crazy

14. You can't break my heart. It's already broken. - Harry, Closer

15. I am nothing special; of this, I am sure. But I'm a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and for me, that has always been enough. - Duke, The Notebook

16. You don't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. - Sean, Good Will Hunting

17. I've tried using my hatred of him to block out the feelings of love I have, but love is not so easily defeated. - Isis, Remember the Titans

18. When you love someone, and you love them with your heart, it never disappears. When you're apart, and when you love someone and you've done all you can do, you set them free. And if that love was true… when you love someone, it will all come back to you. - Celine, Forget Paris

19. I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly. - Katie, You've Got Mail

20. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. - Christian, Moulin Rouge

Broken Love Quotes About Her

1. She moved on, and I feel sorry for you, because she thought you were the most amazing boy. She isn't the type to give up on someone easily, giving up on you hurt her a lot.

2. She wanted to cry, for him to see her distress. But something in her just wouldn't let her.

3. Her broken heart had scarred over, but it would always remain a part of her, as integral as her blood or bones.

4. She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important.

5. She tried to smile, a last-resort attempt at pretending everything was normal.

6. She loved too much, she lost too much. Yet, she never failed to smile.

7. She's a broken girl, but she makes it an art form.

8. She may come off strong but maybe, just maybe, she fell asleep crying.

9. She painted a picture of happiness while living in sorrow.

10. Even when she suffered, she radiated a kind of elegant despair.

11. But he was always her storm. One could only hold their breath and wait for the passing.

12. She was bountiful of love, full to the brim, yet always void.

13. In her eyes, he had seen his heart shatter, piece by piece.

14. She stood there, like a delicate glass statue, ready to shatter at the softest touch.

15. When he broke her heart, he took a piece of her soul with him.

16. She lost him but she found herself and somehow that was everything.

17. It amazed him, how easily she could break open and spill out galaxies of emotions.

18. His absence was a constant, aching reminder of the magnitude of love she had lost.

19. She loved him and he had shattered her, yet her heart foolishly yearned for him.

20. She carried a heart stained with the indelible ink of his memory.

Broken Love Quotes About Him

1. The hardest thing about realizing you don't love me, is that you spent so much time pretending that you did.

2. His eyes held an endless kind of love for her. That was something she couldn’t walk away from.

3. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

4. You shattered my heart into countless pieces, yet all I want is for you to put it back together.

5. I've loved him in endless ways, endless days, in endless lifetimes.

6. He was like the moon—part of him was always hidden.

7. His love was like glass, beautiful when held to light, but so easy to shatter.

8. His love wasn’t a beautiful song, it was a tragic melody that resonated with my broken heart.

9. He was just another lesson. I wish for once I could be his destination.

10. My heart pounds for him, a rhythm of love and loss.

11. I'm fading from your memory, yet you're imprinted on my heart.

12. I fell for his mystery, only to be lost in his maze.

13. I loved him but somehow, he became another sad poem in my book.

14. I left a piece of my heart with him, and it's missing every time I feel a beat.

15. His every word was a thread binding my heart, his every touch was a promise broken.

16. The tragedy of our story is that he never understood, all I ever wanted was him and his time.

17. He left like the wind, a slow breeze that suddenly turned into a gust. I couldn’t hold on.

18. He was the chapter I kept on re-reading, hoping for a happier ending.

19. To the world, he was a beast but for me, he was the love I lost.

20. His love changed me, his departure destroyed me.

Broken Love Quotes About Regret

1. In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, relationships we were scared to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.

2. The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

3. 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.

4. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

5. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

6. Always forgive, but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret.

7. Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

8. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

9. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

10. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

11. Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.

12. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

13. Living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

14. I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense.... And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

15. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

16. I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or you will regret it.

17. You may regret people you met, but you will regret the ones you let slip away even more.

18. Heartbreak is less about love lost and more about the regret that it could have been more.

19. You will regret the chances you didn't take far more than the mistakes you made.

20. Regret reminds us we're prisoners of past loves, forever locked in the echoes of heartbreak.

Broken Love Quotes About Moving On

1. Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go, but rather learning to start over.

2. Life moves forwards. The old leaves wither, die, and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

3. Broken hearts heal, even when we think they never will. You deserve so much more, it's time to move on.

4. Holding on is believing that there's a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future.

5. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

6. 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.

7. One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can't change.

8. Cry, forgive, learn, and move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

9. Don't be afraid to start over. It's a new chance to rebuild what you want.

10. Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

11. Breathe, darling. This is just a chapter. It's not your whole story.

12. You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

13. Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

14. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

15. The best revenge is just moving on. Don't give someone the satisfaction of watching you suffer.

16. Move on, life is too short to hold on to the past.

17. Time heals the deepest wounds and makes us stronger in the process.

18. You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old—whatever 'the old' means for you.

19. I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in the winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

20. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

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