50 Inspirational Quotes on Heartbreak to Heal and Empower Your Soul

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

- Frank Ocean

"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

"Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead."

- Adele

"Un-break my heart. Say you'll love me again. Undo this hurt you caused when you walked out the door and walked out of my life."

- Toni Braxton

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going."

- Robyn Schneider

"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

"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

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

- Karen Salmanson

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Jonathan Harnisch

"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

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

- Patti Roberts

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken."

- Shakieb Orgunwall

"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

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

- RuPaul

"Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?"

- Leo Buscaglia

"It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Being able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely."

- Deepika Padukone

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."

- Nicholas Sparks

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

- Robert Frost

"That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going."

- Zora Neale Hurston

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

- Chico Xavier

"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

"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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"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

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

- Scott Stabile

"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget."

- Kate Winslet

"The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever."

- Carroll Bryant

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain."

- Andrea Gibson

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Every heart has its secret sorrows."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Jan Gildwell

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

- Daphne Rose Kingma

"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

"You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends, and then all of a sudden one day you're in London and you realize you've been in the same place as your ex for two weeks and you're fine. And you hope he's fine."

- Taylor Swift

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

- A. A. Milne

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

- Washington Irving

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

- Golda Meir

"Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurt and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty."

- Anne Elisabeth Stengl

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

- Gwyneth Paltrow

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

- Little Mix

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

- Hannah Brown

"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

"You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on."

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

"Pour yourself a drink, put some lipstick on and pull yourself together."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"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

"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

"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

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- Sara Evans, A Little Bit Stronger

"You will need to allow your mind to take it all in so that by the time you get back up on your feet, you know how you feel."

- Lauren Conrad

"It’s so empowering to say, ‘This isn’t serving me,’ and walk away in peace."

- Anonymous

"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

"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

"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 was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition that I had, this entire year."

- Miley Cyrus

"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."

- Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

"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

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

- Sam Madison

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

- Rumi

"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

"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'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

"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

"One taught me love. One taught me patience/ And one taught me pain Now, I'm so amazing. Say I've loved and I've lost But that's not what I see. So, look what I got Look what you taught me."

- Ariana Grande, Thank u, next

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."

- Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Wilder Poetry

"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

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

- The Wizard of Oz

"Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars."

- Violeta Parra

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

- H. C. Paye

"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."

- Faraaz Kazi

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"You can’t have heartbreak without love. If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him."

- Leila Sales, “Past Perfect”

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

- Lord Byron

"Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story."

- Faraaz Kazi

"A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along."

- J.S.B. Morse, “Now and at the Hour of Our Death”

"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day."

- Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”

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

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- H.C. Paye

"Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow."

- Sylvia Plath

"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

"My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it."

- Meredith Taylor, “Churning Water”

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."

- James Baldwin

"And they can’t understand, what hurts more—missing the other person, or pretending not to."

- Khadija Rupa

"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."

- Mineko Iwasaki

"I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and it’s part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner."

- Heidi Klum

"To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful."

- Bess Myerson

"Thinking of you is a poison I drink often."

- Atticus

"This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him—for breaking my heart twice."

- James Patterson, “Sundays at Tiffany’s”

"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."

- Coco J. Ginger

"It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces."

- Ella Harper

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

- Hannah Brown

"There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best."

- Jodi Piccoult, The Book of Two Ways

"Back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart."

- Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

"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

"Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker."

- Miranda Kenneally

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

- Dalai Aya

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

- Germany Kent

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

- Jerry Seinfeld

"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living."

- Pablo Neruda

"Is there a cure for a broken heart? Only time can heal your broken heart, just as time can heal his broken arms and legs."

- Miss Piggy

"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same."

- Warsan Shire

"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

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Nikki Rowe

"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

"Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?"

- Anita Desai

"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, Hearts in Atlantis

"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it."

- Henny Youngman

"I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart."

- Christie Brinkley

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs."

- Miss Piggy

"I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart."

- Julia Roberts

"Once my self esteem is back to 100% you will be dead to me."

- Some EE Cards

"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else."

- Mae West

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

- H. L. Mencken

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

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

- ambivert_mess

"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? (Of course there's context and nuance to each unique breakup, but this one is/helped me)."

- YT-AnArtAccount

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

- Ok-Somewhere-1445

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

- Socrates

"Rejection = redirection"

- Complex-South1444

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"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

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- Amy Poehler

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"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

"I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place."

- Michael Faudet

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break."

- William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”

"When we miss someone often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens."

- Luigina Sgarro

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

- Washington Irving

"There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it."

- Ranata Suzuki

"One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you … then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go."

- Drake

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

- Robert Brault

"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

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

- Thomas Fuller

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

- RabbitInTheHead

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Miss Piggy

"You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it."

- Henry Youngman

"Grief is itself a medicine."

- William Cowper

"I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart."

- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

"No good marriage ever ended in divorce"

- Complex-South1444

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

- snooze_e

"The heart was made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

"The only way out is through"

"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

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"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."

"When one door closes, another opens."

"It is always darkest before the dawn."

"Time heals what reason cannot."

"Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time."

"The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it."

"There is sacredness in tears."

"The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has."

"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."

"You're gonna make it after all."

"Sorrow makes us all children again."

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break."

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