100+ Inspirational Breakup Quotes to Heal and Empower Your Heart

"The cure for a broken heart is self-love."

- Jonathan Harnisch

"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again."

- Suzanne Collins

"Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending."

- Chico Xavier

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened...or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on."

- Tupac Shakur

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"The pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on."

- Scott Stabile

"I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever."

- H.C. Paye

"Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities."

- Patti Roberts

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over."

- Paulo Coelho

"Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterward? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?"

- Allyson Braithwaite Condie

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Have such deep confidence and love for yourself. You were fine before them and you’ll be fine with anyone after. If you did everything you could, and they still let you down, failed you and hurt you, that means they lost more than you. You learned your lesson, now raise your boundaries and move on No contact. It’s utterly difficult, but my father always told me “What the eyes don’t see, the heart does not feel.” Time heals, yes you’ll still think of them but that ache will soon pass, focus on you, don’t let that kid inside you down."

- summerrtime

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"We’d always go into it blindly. I needed to lose you to find me. This dancing was killing me softly. I needed to hate you to love me."

- Selena Gomez

"You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be OK on your own before you're OK with someone else. You've got to value yourself and know that you're worth everything. And until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can’t really have a healthy relationship."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Life has tried to break me, the wounds have not yet healed. But I am not a victim, never been and never will. My heart was born a warrior, each day I'm fighting still. I am everything the darkness could not kill."

- John Mark Green

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."

- Sarah Dessen

"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Just believe that the heartbreak was a gift in itself. Cry if you have to, but it won't be forever! You will find love again, and it will be even more beautiful! In the meantime enjoy all that YOU are!"

- Rihanna

"Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future."

- Daphne Rose Kingma

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."

- Jodi Picoult

"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."

- Louise Erdich, The Painted Drum

"Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger."

- Jim Butcher

"I would rather have my heart broken a thousand times than never to love at all. I have so much love to give — I'm not empty of love, I'm full of love."

- Cameron Diaz

"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate."

- Nicole Kidman

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your place in the family of things."

- Mary Oliver

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

- Lord Byron

"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."

- Jan Glidewell

"We too, like trees can shake off our dead leaves and begin again."

- A.Y. Greyson

"You get through it. It's a process that's not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day."

- Ryan Phillippe

"I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me."

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

- Chinese Proverb

"We're all where we're supposed to be. I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting. . . ."

- Sandra Bullock

"You can't move things by not moving."

- Suzy Kassem

"I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been."

- A. A. Milne

"I love you, but I love me more."

- Samantha

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"Letting go is hard but being free is beautiful."

- Wilder Poetry

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Just by being there, looking at the problem or at the darkness of your thoughts straight in the eye and deciding you won't surrender to it, you won't let it shallow you; you are being the bravest you can ever be and starting the path to your personal freedom."

- Nelson Mandela

"Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength."

- Karen Salmansohn

"If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me."

- Tony Robbins

"Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break, and all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intentions. So go, Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you."

- L.R. Frost

"Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go! So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."

- Germany Kent

"I'm breaking down, gonna start from scratch/Shake it off like an Etch-A-Sketch/My lips are saying goodbye/My eyes are finally dry."

- Fifth Harmony

"The truth is, I should be angry, resentful and disillusioned about relationships. But I'm not. Love did not work with that person. But it can work with another."

- Eva Longoria

"When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter."

- Melissa Marr

"You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you"

- Nayyirah Waheed

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."

- Sara Teasdale

"Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else."

- Hailee Steinfeld

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship."

- Anne Hathaway

"’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"This is the part of me that you’re never gonna ever take away from me, no! Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blow. But you’re not gonna break my soul."

- Katy Perry

"You thought that I'd be weak without ya, but I'm stronger. You thought that I'd be broke without ya, but I'm richer. You thought that I'd be sad without ya, I love harder."

- Destiny's Child, Survivor

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present."

- Lao Tzu

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering."

- Ben Okri

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut—it will heal, but there will always be a scar."

- Soo Jie

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- Neil Gaiman

"you can only control what you do, you have to be the best for yourself"

- Ok-Somewhere-1445

"if it was true love, it doesn’t cease to exist just bc you aren’t physically with someone, love can never be destroyed"

- Ok-Somewhere-1445

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."

- Rumi

"We are never ever, ever getting back together."

- Taylor Swift

"Hope, Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If You Love Something, set it Free. If it Come Back, It Is Yours. If it did Not Come Back, It Never Was."

- Relative-Variation16

"I know my heart will never be the same. But I'm telling myself I'll be okay."

- Sara Evans, A Little Bit Stronger

"A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed."

- Mohsin Hamid

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all."

- Lalah Delia

"I am beginning to feel like the only way to truly get over someone that you cared a lot about is to start a new chapter."

- Mindy, The Mindy Project

"It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place."

- Angelina Jolie

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything."

- Santosh Kalwar

"Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again."

- Amy Poehler

"Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."

- Robert Holden

"You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with."

- Nikki Rowe

"I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that's being alone and being sad. Ain't no one in this room alone."

- Ted Lasso

"Don't worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new storyline falls from the sky and lands right in your lap."

- Rebekah Crane

"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."

- L.M. Montgomery

"It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward."

- Randy Pausch

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

- Robert Brault

"If losing you gives them peace then value their peace and move on."

- ambivert_mess

"water always finds it’s level, and they weren’t at yours"

- Ok-Somewhere-1445

"Rejection = redirection"

- Complex-South1444

"There should be stars for great wars like ours. There ought to be awards and plenty of champagne for the survivors."

- Sandra Cisneros

"I'm just a masterpiece trying to master peace."

- Dalai Aya

"I’m going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I'm going to smile."

- Lone Star

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone."

- Andy Biersack

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

- Gwyneth Paltrow

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

- Rumi

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

- Dalai Lama

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't be sorry, be fierce."

- RuPaul

"I was good before her, I will be good after her."

- RabbitInTheHead

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you."

- Gugu Mofokeng

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

- Sonia Ricotti

"We have to be whole people to find whole love"

- Cheryl Strayed

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

- Mark Twain

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

- Socrates

"We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"If you really want closure... at some point, you have to shut the door."

- Jacki Wells Wunderlin

"Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart."

- Cassandra Clare

"The way they leave tells you everything."

- Rupi Kaur

"The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did."

- Lalla

"I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is."

- Hannah Brown

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

- Alvy Singer

"Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you."

- Frank Ocean

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together"

- Marilyn Monroe

"No good marriage ever ended in divorce"

- Complex-South1444

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

- The Wizard of Oz

"The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet."

- Mohadesa Najumi

"If it could’ve happened any other way, it would’ve"

- snooze_e

"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life."

- Unknown

"The only way out is through"

"It’s always darkest before the dawn."

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept."

"Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."

"Forgiveness is not something we do for other people. It's something we do for ourselves to move on."

"If you can love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you can love the right one."

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

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

"Why should I be sad. I lost someone who wouldn't fight for me, yet they lost someone who would fight for them. So why should I be sad?"

"if life can remove someone you never dreamt of losing - it can replace some your never dreamt of having"

"Someday we’ll forget the hurt, the reason we cried, and who caused us pain. We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh, forgive, believe, and love all over again."

"there’s nothing they can say to you that you don’t already know through their actions helped me a lot actually it has prevented me from reaching out and asking why they treated me that way it doesn’t matter you know? they don’t want to be with me they don’t want to talk to me it’s very clear from their actions"

"You're always one decision away from a totally different life."

"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

"You're gonna make it after all."

"The sign of true forgiveness is when you stop wishing it had been any other way."

"Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path."

"Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser."

"Don't change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself, and the right people will like you."

"Don't be afraid to start over. It’s a brand new opportunity to rebuild what you truly want."

"Starting today, I need to forget what's gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what's coming next."

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together."

"The hardest thing I'll ever do is walk away still loving you."

"Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move on."

"Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows."

"What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?"

"Some people think that it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."

"Whatever you were and had in you when you entered the relationship will still be part of you after. Whatever made you attractive, a good partner (or maybe bad), a good friend is yours, not theirs. And you get to keep it and be it, regardless of the other person’s preference in your life. The relationship may be over, but you as an individual remain."

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

"Some things break your heart but fix your vision."

"A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize that He saved you from the wrong one."

"Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it."

"Love is unconditional. Relationships are not."

"Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away."

"Don’t let someone who isn’t worth your love make you forget how much you are worth."

"Inhale the future, exhale the past."

"The people that are quick to walk away are the ones that never intended to stay."

"No boyfriend, no problems."

"It’s better to be single with a standard than losing yourself for approval."

"If someone can walk away from you, let them walk."

"Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together."

"If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it's yours, if not it wasn't meant to be."

"Going back to an ex is like reheating your McDonald’s fries. It’s just never the same after they have been with someone else or events happened between the time you were together and the time you get back together"

"If you are in this situation be like my mum don't cling onto things please"