100+ Inspiring Broken Heart Quotes to Heal and Empower Your Soul

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

- Patti Roberts

"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

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Lord Byron

"It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- Shakieb Orgunwall

"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

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

"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

"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

"With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on."

- Federico Chini

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Robert Frost

"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

"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”

"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

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

- H.C. Paye

"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”

"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

"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

"The heart was made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."

- Jodi Picoult

"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

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

- Washington Irving

"Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, ‘I want to know why!’"

- Shannon L. Alder

"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

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

- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"

"But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on."

- Khadija Rupa

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

- Lord Byron

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

- Kate Winslet

"I love you but I love me more."

- Samantha Jones

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

- Faraaz Kazi

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"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

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

- Carroll Bryant

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime."

- Bette Davis

"Hearts live by being wounded."

- Oscar Wilde

"You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

- John Green

"A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ."

- Martha Gellhorn

"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

"It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it"

- Ranata Suzuki

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

- Ella Harper

"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

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

- Gwyneth Paltrow

"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

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

- Hannah Brown

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

- Little Mix

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

"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

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

- Golda Meir

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

- Washington Irving

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

- A. A. Milne

"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 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

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

- Daphne Rose Kingma

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

- Jan Glidewell

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

- Faraaz Kazi

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

- H. C. Paye

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

- Violeta Parra

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

- The Wizard of Oz

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

- Mineko Iwasaki

"A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember."

- Anthony Liccione

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

- Jocelyn Soriano

"Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

- Thomas Fuller

"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

"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

"My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore."

- Katie MacAlister

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing."

- Michael Gilbert

"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

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

- William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”

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

- Ranata Suzuki

"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”

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Michael Faudet

"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”

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."

- Raymond Lindquist

"The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep."

- Margaret George

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

- Khadija Rupa

"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

"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

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

- Christie Brinkley

"So since i’m still here livin’, i guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love–but for livin’ I was born."

- Langston Hughes

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

- Henny Youngman

"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

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

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

- H. L. Mencken

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't no love at all."

- Toni Morrison

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

- Maya Angelou

"You're gonna make it after all."

"Goodbye doesn’t end love; it begins a journey to self-rediscovery."

"In goodbye, we find the courage to open a new chapter."

"Goodbyes bring closure, but memories linger as a testament to love."

"Saying goodbye is painful, but remembering love’s presence makes it bittersweet."

"Letting go of a soulmate means finding peace within yourself."

"In heartbreak, God holds you closer to his love."

"When love feels lost, faith reminds us of hope’s presence."

"God never lets us break without showing us the way to heal."

"Let faith be the bridge between heartbreak and healing."

"In every heartbreak, there’s an opportunity for growth."

"Goodbye may hurt, but it’s also a chance to heal."

"The heart may break, but it eventually finds its rhythm again."

"The beauty of a soulmate’s love doesn’t vanish, even when it leaves us broken-hearted."

"Even with a broken heart, love remains a reminder of what we once cherished."

"A broken heart may linger, but it also makes space for personal growth."

"Sometimes, it’s the soulmate who breaks our hearts that teaches us the most valuable life lessons."

"Soulmate broken heart quotes remind us that even the deepest wounds can heal with time and self-love."

"A broken heart from a soulmate’s love is a lesson in strength and resilience."

"Losing a soulmate is like losing a part of your soul, but in healing, you discover pieces of yourself you never knew existed."

"A broken heart is a journey of self-discovery in disguise."

"After losing a soulmate, we find strength within ourselves."

"The pain of a broken heart fades, but its lessons endure."

"Every heartbreak leads us closer to our true self."

"Heartbreak may hurt now, but it opens the door to personal transformation."

"Sadness fades, but resilience remains."

"Through heartbreak, we gain strength to love ourselves."

"A broken heart is like a storm—intense but not everlasting."

"Sadness will pass, and new joys will find their way back into your life."

"Even broken hearts continue to beat, keeping us moving forward."

"In every goodbye lies the seed of a new beginning."