50 Inspirational Quotes to Heal Your Heart After a Breakup

""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.""

- Jean-Yves Leloup

""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

"Life moves on. And so should we."

- Spencer Johnson

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

- Frank Ocean

"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."

- Steve Maraboli

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are telling the story of your life. You have the power to tell a different one. You choose, every day, how you interpret others’ actions, events, and the world around you. You and only you have the power to change this. Change the script!"

- Laura Elliott

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them...but still move on without them."

- Mandy Hale

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"

- Mary Manin Morrissey

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

- Taylor Swift

"Thank you, next."

- Ariana Grande

"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I do not care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’"

- Joel Osteen

"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow."

- L. Ron Hubbard

"Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?"

- Donna Lynn Hope

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

- Robert Holden

"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

"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

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

- J.K. Rowling

""The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.""

- Socrates

""The thing about heartbreak, I realized, is it’s not really about waiting for things to stop hurting before you start moving. A broken heart can and will heal in time, but for time to actually do its job, I needed to acknowledge what I had lost, and move on.""

- Ana Tejano

""You loved him enough to let him leave. Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.""

- Ranata Suzuki

""When love ends, don’t mourn the loss; celebrate the lessons it brought and the strength it ignited within you.""

- Dodinsky

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nayyirah Waheed

""Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.""

- Shannon L. Alder

""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.""

- Deborah Reber

""When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on — series polygamy — until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment.""

- Tom Robbins

"One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up."

- Mandy Hale

"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

""No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.""

- Faraaz Kazi

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

- Hannah Brown

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

- Mark Twain

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."

- Steve Maraboli

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

"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 swallow you; you are being the bravest you can ever be and starting the path to your personal freedom."

- Nelson Mandela

"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal."

- Cheryl Strayed

"I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye."

- Steve Maraboli

"Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now."

- Joel Osteen

"The habit of forever looking backward is fatal to efficiency just as is the habit of looking forward too much. Today is the day. Live the day and have done with it. Fling your best into it, then you have nothing to regret, and there is no need of anticipating tomorrow."

- O. S. Marden

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"Sometimes you must let people go because their pieces no longer fit. This departure is for the betterment of your energy, your space and your precious life."

- Melody Lee

"Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past."

- Dan Brown

"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose upsides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow."

- Tony Schwartz

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

- E.M. Forster

"You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Love is what you were born with. Fear is what you learned here."

- Marianne Williamson

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. 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."

- The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

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

- Dalai Lama

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J. K. Rowling

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Walt Whitman

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step."

- Naeem Callaway

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

- Karen Salmanson

""The heart was made to be broken.""

- Oscar Wilde

""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.""

- Alexander Graham Bell

""I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found.""

- R.H. Sin

""You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that.""

- Heather Havrilesky

""Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.""

- Steve Maraboli

""The easiest way to teach someone how to treat you is to refuse to give them more opportunities to hurt you. Walk away…""

- R.H. Sin

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

- Gugu Mofokeng

""Recovery begins from the darkest moment.""

- John Major

"Heartbroken? Channel your sorrow to become worthy of love. The world will be yours."

- Tapan Ghosh

"They say heartbreak is a blessing. It helps you grow and turns you into a better, more powerful person. You become as strong as a beast."

- Priyanka Agarwal

"Do not wait. If it is not right, move on."

- Andy Lau

"Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self."

- Tere Arigo

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

- Guy Finley

""You don’t make me feel like you used to. That’s why I’m leaving. That’s why people leave each other. They come to their senses and get selfish again.""

- Henry Rollins

"Anyone can give you attention and compliments, but someone who loves you will give you that plus respect, honesty, trust, and loyalty."

- Charles Orlando

"Let me be clear, my love is unconditional, but your presence in my life is not. The moment that you prove that your value of me does not measure up to my sense of self-worth, I’ll have no problem unconditionally loving the memory of you and moving on."

- Carson Patrick Bowie

"Set your life on fire, and seek those who fan the flames."

- Rumi

"Girls, you have gotta know when it’s time to turn the page."

- Tori Amos

""Do not cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.""

- Dr. Seuss

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

- Barbara De Angelis

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

- Mohadesa Najumi

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

- Gugu Mofokeng

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

- Cheryl Strayed

"Don’t stay in the harbor and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn’t mean you have to be."

- Joyce Rachelle

"It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out."

- Colleen Hoover

"And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end."

- Junot Díaz

"Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the bandaid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved."

- John Green

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

- Hailee Steinfeld

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need."

- Lao Tzu

"My ex asked me, 'Where you movin'?' I said, 'On to better things.'"

- Drake

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

- Andy Biersack

"You made my heart break and that made me who I am."

- Little Mix

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The heart was made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

"There’s a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go."

- Victoria Schwab

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

- Lalla

""The hottest love has the coldest end.""

- Socrates

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

- A. A. Milne

"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"

- RuPaul

""Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.""

- Grant Gudmunson

"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."

- Nitya Prakash

""Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.""

- Katerina Stoykova Klemer

"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

- Yoko Ono

"You can’t walk away without also walking towards."

- Rachel Hartman

"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

"Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you."

- Khang Kijarro Nguyen

"You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

- John Green

""Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.""

- Marian Keyes

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"You’re doing great out there without me, baby/Like a damn sociopath"

- Olivia Rodrigo

"Moving on is not forgetting — moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it."

- Sam Madison

"Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs."

- Miss Piggy

"One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones."

- Turcois Ominek

"It hurts to let go. Sometimes, it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone, the more it wants to get away."

- Henry Rollins

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either."

- Golda Meir

"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

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

- Mark Twain

"Everything was and is in perfect creation, design, and order for life and my soul to lovingly grant me everything I needed for my evolution. There is no wasted time, and there is nothing that is wrong. I also understand that everything that occurred to any other player in this cast of perfection was also the highest, most gracious event offered by their soul in concert with mine."

- Melanie Tonia Evans

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn."

- Rhett Butler

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

- Sonia Ricotti

"The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."

- William Faulkner

"I cannot play myself again/I should just be my own best friend"

- Amy Winehouse

"Once upon a time, it was made for us (For us)/ Woke up one day, it had turned to dust/ Baby, we were found, but now we're lost/ So it's time to let it go."

- Miley Cyrus

"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

"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

"Three: Don't be his friend/You know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the mornin'/And if you're under him, you ain't gettin' over him"

- Dua Lipa

"Does it ever get lonely, thinking you could live without me?"

- Halsey

"It’s unfair that I still care and I wonder where you are tonight. Thinking it could be different. But maybe we missed it."

- Tori Kelly

"Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

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

- Gwyneth Paltrow

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished."

- Mikhail Lermontov

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

- Socrates

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

- The Wizard of Oz

"The course of true love did never run smooth."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Sarah Mlynowski

"Did it frighten you, how we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?"

- Lorde

"Falling for you was my mistake."

- The Weeknd

"Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves."

- Francoise Sagan

"I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy."

- Jared Kintz

"I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us."

- Mimi Novic

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

- Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Inhale the future, exhale the past."

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

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

"If they are stupid enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go."

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because he is finally someone else’s problem."

"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."

"Love is unconditional. Relationships are not."

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

"It’s always darkest before the dawn."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Hey! Hey. What's up? My standards. Bye."

"No boyfriend, no problems."

"When life shows you its time to let someone go, and you refuse to, life will allow the person to hurt you to the point you have no choice but to let go."

"I’m moving on because we had religious differences. He thinks he's God, and I don’t."

"You never know who you are married to until you get divorced."

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

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

"Pain is the person you never want to see. But without Pain, how would you recognize Joy?"

"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."

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."

"Please don't be fooled by Adele. You'll never find someone like me."

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

"If you went back and erased all the mistakes you've made, you erase yourself."

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

"If I don’t listen to the stories my mind is telling me, is there a problem right now?"

""The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.""

"I’m trying to be a more positive person every day. Today, I'm positive everyone is an asshole."

"I hope you step on a Lego."

"It's so hot outside, I almost called my ex so that I could be around something shady."

"Being back with your ex is like reheating your Mcdonald's fries."

"In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself."

"Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been."

"It's so hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember."

"I'm no longer following my heart. It keeps giving me bad directions."

"Even though I believe I’ve made choices that have hurt myself and others that are unforgivable, I now realize, claim, and embody that these choices were exactly what my soul had deemed as perfect for me to come home as the next highest and most divine version of myself."

"When a dewdrop slides off a leaf and surrenders to gravity, the drop loses its previous identity and joins the vastness of the earth below. It must have trembled before it fell, just on the edge between the known and the unknown. Sometimes things end, they are finished, they are completing. Whatever it is, they are things that might have helped us to define who we are. It's time to let go of it, allowing sadness, but not trying to hold on. Something greater is awaiting, dimensions are there to be discovered. We are past the point of no return now, and gravity is doing its work. Go with it – it represents liberation."

"We need to take our relationship to the previous level."