220 Inspiring Quotes After a Breakup to Help You Heal and Move Forward

"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

"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

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

- Sam Madison

"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

"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

"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

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

- Wilder Poetry

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

- Chico Xavier

"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

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

- Patti Roberts

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

- Jan Glidewell

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

- Daphne Rose Kingma

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

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

- Jonathan Harnisch

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

- Hailee Steinfeld

"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

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

- Scott Stabile

"[They're] very dreamy, but [they're] not the sun. You are."

- Christina Yang

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Herman Hesse

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Drake

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

- Karen Salmansohn

"I love you but I love me more."

- Samantha Jones

"I deserve somebody who gives a sh*t."

- Brooke Meyers

"Eventually all the pieces fall into place... Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment, and know that everything happens for a reason."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be... We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."

- Miles Halter

"Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"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

"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

"However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back."

- Helen Oyeyemi

"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

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

- Lalla

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

- Turcois Ominek

"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

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

- Amy Winehouse

"Thank you, next."

- Ariana Grande

"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

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Faraaz Kazi

"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

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

"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

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

- RuPaul

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

- Hannah Brown

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Randy Pausch

"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

"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

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

- Robert Brault

"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

"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

"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

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"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

"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

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Sara Evans, A Little Bit Stronger

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

- A.Y. Greyson

"The only way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Lalah Delia

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

- Little Mix

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"Don't be sorry, be fierce."

- RuPaul

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

- Sara Teasdale

"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

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

- Nikki Rowe

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

- Germany Kent

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

- Melissa Marr

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- Dalai Aya

"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

"Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else."

- Cheryl Strayed

"When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent."

- RuPaul

"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

"Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorsteps doesn't mean they have a right to stay."

- Deepak Chopra

"In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!"

- Mr. Perlman

"The way they leave tells you everything."

- Rupi Kaur

"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

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

- Violeta Parra

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Shakieb Orgunwall

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

- Gwyneth Paltrow

"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

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

- Lord Byron

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Taylor Swift

"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

"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

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

- H. C. Paye

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

- Venus Williams

"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

"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

"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

"Most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself."

- Elle Woods

"But every time you hurt me, the less that I cry. And every time you leave me, the quicker these tears dry. And every time you walk out, the less I love you. Baby, we don't stand a chance, it's sad but it's true."

- Sam Smith

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"Through it all, I have learned to laugh and cry and grow. I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her. I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful."

- Beyonce

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

- Gugu Mofokeng

"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

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

- Sandra Cisneros

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

- Washington Irving

"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

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

- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)

"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

"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

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"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

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

- Suzy Kassem

"Go back? he thought. No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! 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

"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

"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

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

- Carroll Bryant

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

- Mae West

"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

"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

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

- Miss Piggy

"Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart."

- Cassandra Clare

"The heart was made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

- Socrates

"Falling for you was my mistake."

- The Weeknd

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

- Golda Meir

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

- The Wizard of Oz

"Hearts live by being wounded."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"So many things become beautiful when you really look."

- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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

- Lorde

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

- Olivia Rodrigo

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

- Christie Brinkley

"Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel."

- Graham Greene, The Comedians

"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

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

- Francoise Sagan

"Stuart needs 'space' and 'time,' as if this were physics and not a human relationship."

- Kathryn Stockett

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

- Jarod Kintz

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

- Henny Youngman

"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

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

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"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."