206 Inspirational Quotes To Strengthen You After A Break Up

A breakup can be brutal to deal with. Your heart, body, and soul hurt. But, reading inspirational breakup quotes can help. You know you will recover from the heartache, but it is still hard to not see or talk to the person you thought was never going to leave you. At this low point of your life, it is natural to seek comfort in people you can confide in. Having heart-to-hearts with your friends or reading something to inspire you to keep going can also help you deal with the pain.

Of course, what you are going through is real. But, you are not alone in this. Words from a person who has survived heartbreak can be helpful and make you realize that this too shall pass. Their motivational words can help you hold steady and ride through the sadness that the end of a relationship can leave behind. A breakup is a painful experience that helps us learn from our mistakes. And like everyone else in the history of humankind, you will also get through it. Here are the best inspirational quotes to give you strength, encouragement and positivity after a breakup. Scroll down to check them out!

Uplifting Quotes

Before you get into breakup quotes, here are some motivating ones to give you hope for a new beginning and easier tomorrow. It may be difficult to pick yourself up right now, but these quotes may help push you past this stage.

1. “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
2. “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” — Jan Glidewell
3. “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
4. “I know my heart will never be the same. But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” — Sara Evans, A Little Bit Stronger
5. “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, Too Good At Goodbyes
6. “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
7. “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
8. “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
9. “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
10. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will.”—Venus Williams
11. “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.” — Lalah Delia
12. “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
13. “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
14. “Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength.” — Karen Salmanson
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “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
19. “Moving on is not forgetting — moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.” — Sam Madison
20. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”—Jean de La Fontaine

We hope these uplifting quotes have given you a positive outlook on your breakup. But if you are still in the feels, here are some breakup quotes to calm your broken heart.

206 Breakup Quotes To Soothe Your Aching Heart

Words have the power to soothe an aching heart. And if you find yourself wondering what to do after a breakup, reading these quotes may offer solace and direction on your path to healing. Here are the 206 breakup quotes to soothe your heart.

1. “The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
2. “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
3. “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami
4. “Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
5. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them… but still move on without them.” — Mandy Hale
6. “When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed-over British Rail sandwich?” – Helen Fielding
7. “Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.” – Sarah Mlynowski
8. “Someday, it’s gonna make sense.” – Anonymous
9. “Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Anonymous
10. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho
11. “It just hurts a lot because it is healing.” – Anonymous
12. “When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward like I was forgetting to do something. My life until that point had pivoted around some form of education, and all of a sudden, it was gone. Homework, classes, running around, and then –bam – nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even mentions it. You just suddenly have a gap and have to decide how to fill it. A break-up is like that gap, only much, much more painful. One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof. And even though I’m not one of those people who has to be in a relationship all the time, I was feeling at a loss.” – Lish McBride

13. “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” –Drake
14. “I need to let go of this false hope that you will change your mind and come back to me.” – Anonymous
15. “When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.” – Barney Stinson
16. “Dear heart, this is what happens when you try to make decisions on your own. Sincerely, Brain.” – Anonymous
17. “Take a step back today, look at all those beautiful things you have.” – Anonymous
18. “It’s going to be okay, even if right now it feels like it the worst pain you have ever felt.” – Anonymous

19. “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. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain. Damn, there’s nothing like that, is there? I’ve been there and you have, too. You’re nodding your head.” – Henry Rollins
20. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
21. “The course of true love did never run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
22. “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum
23. “Ever has it been that loveknows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
24. “It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it’s time to let go. At this point, we can choose to let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like emotional cancer. Until we wake up one day and realize we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.” – Jaeda DeWalt
25. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
26. “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
27. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Carl Sagan
28. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
29. “What’s that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.” – Alanis Morissette
30. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
31. “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.” – Marian Keyes
32. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Para
33. “It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.” – Nick Hornby

34. “No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” – Faraaz Kazi
35. “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
36. “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
37. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins
38. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmunson
39. “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. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” – Tom Robbins

40. “I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
41. “Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up.” – Patti Callahan Henry
42. “One day, they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek
43. “I like my relationships like I like my eggs – over easy.” – Jared Kintz
44. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – M. Kathleen Casey
45. “Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.” – Jack Kerouac
46. “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
47. “When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.” – Kim Sowol​
48. “He’s going to be sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain, and remember what an incredible woman you are.” – Anonymous

49. “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
50. “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
51. “Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.” – C. JoyBell C.
52. “One day, I hope you look back at what we had and regret every single thing you did to let it end.” – Anonymous
53. “I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” – Alex Elle
54. “The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.” – Anonymous
55. “I’m tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for.” – Anonymous
56. “Cheer up, sweet, beautiful girl. You are going to be in love again and it will be magnificent.” – Anonymous
57. “You made me feel like I was hard to love, and I will never forgive you for that.” – Anonymous
58. “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
59. “Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger” – Sarah Evans
60. “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
61. “Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as a temporary happiness.” – Anonymous
62. “I didn’t stop loving you. I decided to stop showing it because no matter how hard I tried, you wouldn’t get it.” – Anonymous
63. “Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.” – Marcia Wieder

64. “The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you.” – Anonymous
65. “Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over.” – Maggi Richard
66. “My life has become this one big ‘I don’t kn’”– Anonymous
67. “Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.” – Genevieve Rhode
68. “You’ll always be my favorite ‘what i’” – Anonymous
69. “Trust that an ending is followed by a beginning.” – Anonymous
70. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” – Carl Sandburg
71. “The way they leave tells you everything.” – Rupi Kaur
72. “The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did.” – Anonymous
73. “Things to know about life: ‘No’ is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation.” – Anonymous
74. “I can feel myself slowly fading from your mind.” – Anonymous
75. “One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.” – Romain Rolland
76. “And one day, your name didn’t make me smile anymore.” – Anonymous
77. “No more tears, because I didn’t lose you. You lost me.” – Anonymous
78. “I wore your promise on my finger for one year, I’ll wear your name on my heart till I die. Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” – Coco J. Ginger

79. “Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.” — Nikita Gill
80. “That’s what happens. You let people in, and they destroy you.” – Anonymous
81. “We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye.” – Anonymous
82. “I felt so much that I started to feel nothing.” – Anonymous
83. “Don’t be sorry. I trusted you. My fault, not yours.” – Anonymous
84. “He put me through hell, and I called it love.” – Anonymous
85. “The only thing I’m committed to right now is bettering myself.” – Anonymous
86. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” – Walter Anderson
87. “Passivity means death, activity is living. If you are passive, you allow negative things to come into your life.” – Anonymous
88. “Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine
89. “It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.” – Jane Stanton Hitchcock
90. “Ask yourself, who would Columbus be today if he hadn’t had the courage to lose sight of the shore back then?” – Anonymous
91. “Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. It makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.” – Anonymous
92. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
93. “In order to grow and to experience, one must leave his comfort zone. Very often this means that you have to do what you are afraid of in order to find what you didn’t know you were looking for. This takes a lot of courage.” – Anonymous

94. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
95. “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best, than mend it and see the broken pieces as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell
96. “The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.” – Anonymous
97. “Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” – Len Santos
98. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
99. “Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.” – Jennifer Salaiz
100. “The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.” – Nora Ephron
101. “I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.” – Carrie Brownstein
102. “I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.” – Billy Corgan
103. “If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don’t. It’s not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.” – Donna Lynn Hope
104. “In order to truly value loyalty, you must first endure the affliction of betrayal.” – Thomas Merritt
105. “When love ends, don’t mourn the loss; celebrate the lessons it brought and the strength it ignited within you.” – Dodinsky
106. “Bad things happen, but you have to move past it. Leave it behind. The sooner, the better. Or it’ll eat away at you and stop you from moving forward.” —Miranda Bailey
107. “Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.” ― Nicholas Sparks
108. “Hearts may break, but they also heal. Remember that even the darkest nights will end and give way to a brighter dawn.” – Victor Hugo

109. “Relationships are stepping stones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.” ― Alaric Hutchinson
110. “Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.” ― Nicholas Sparks
111. “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
112. “Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. You still feel the warmth.” — Charlotte Eriksson
113. “You don’t need those people. By stepping aside, they’ve done you a favor. Because what you’ve got left after the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts. Those are the über cool sparkle rocket mind-blowers we’re after. Those are the people worthy of your love.”- Cheryl Strayed
114. “It’s not a matter of letting go – you would if you could. Instead of ‘let it go’ we should probably say ‘let it be.'” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
115. “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. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in the middle of the suffocating dust.” — Heather Havrilesky
116. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” — Katherine Mansfield
117. “To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.” — Jack Kornfield
118. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” — Johnny Cash
119. “When someone you love says goodbye, you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” – Shannon L. Alder
120. “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.”― Wayne L Misner
121. “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do, and often do, much much better.” – Coco J. Ginger
122. “What’s past is prologue, and the world awaits.” ― Lisa Mantchev
123. “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”- Omar Khayyam

124. “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”– Stephanie Klein
125. “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
126. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
127. “Most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself.”—Elle Woods, Legally Blonde
128. “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging, and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..” — H.P. Lovecraft
129. “The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.” – Greg Behrendt
130. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley
131. “He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.”—Christina Yang
132. “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
133. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma
134. “To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.” – Diana Wynne Jones
135. “I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” — Jennifer Aniston
136. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
137. “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” – Amit Kalantri
138. “A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.” — Anthony Liccione

139. “Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.”– Harriet Evans
140. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” — Criss Jams
141. “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” — RuPaul
142. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel
143. “When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can’t make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.” ― April Mae Monterrosa
144. “Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.” — Ginni Rometty
145. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” — Lucille Ball
146. “Hearts live by being wounded.” — Oscar Wilde
147. “‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? The 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
148. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” – Violeta Parra
149. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”― Lyndon B. Johnson
150. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”― Robert Brault
151. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
152. “Recovery begins from the darkest moment.” — John Major
153. “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

154. “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
155. “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 is. You keep going.”― Robyn Schneider
156. “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
157. “It is 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
158. “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
159. “No one is worth wasting a gorgeous weekend over.” ― Susane Colasanti
160. “You loved him enough to let him leave. Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.” — Ranata Suzuki
161. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” — Gugu Mofokeng
162. “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
163. “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
164. “Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.”― Steve Maraboli
165. “Do not cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
166. “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
167. “The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” — Mohadesa Najumi
168. “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

169. “It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.” – Colleen Hoover
170. “And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.” – Junot Díaz
171. “No reason. They (some things) just are, and that’s all there is to it. Some things you just have to accept and move on from.” ― A.F. Harrold
172. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah
173. “There’s a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go.” ― Victoria Schwab
174. “Heartbroken? Channel your sorrow to become worthy of love. The world will be yours.” – Tapan Ghosh
175. “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.”– Golda Meir
176. “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
177. “You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” – John Green
178. “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
179. “Girls, you have gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” — Tori Amos
180. “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
181. “Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.” — Francoise Sagan
182. “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
183. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us”― Mimi Novic

184. “Do not wait. If it is not right, move on.” — Andy Lau
185. “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” — L. Ron Hubbard
186. “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.” – Frank Ocean
187. “It wasn’t closure, really. But I’d said the right things. I’d hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn’t get closure. Maybe some things weren’t really worth it, or didn’t really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious.”― Vee Hoffman
188. “The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did.”— Lalla
189. “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
190. “Life moves on. And so should we.” — Spencer Johnson
191. “I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” —A. A. Milne
192. “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono
193. “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
194. “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
195. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” — Dan Brown
196. You can’t walk away without also walking towards.” ― Rachel Hartman
197. “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
198. “I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished.” ― Mikhail Lermontov

199. “Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you.”― Khang Kijarro Nguyen
200. “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
201. “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
202. “Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
203. “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
204. “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
205. “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
206. 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

Infographic: 10 Heart-Touching Breakup Quotes To Comfort You

Dealing with a heartbreak can be tough and it’s natural to feel hurt. However, the right words can provide comfort and offer perspective, which may help you heal and move on. The infographic below contains a selection of quotes that offer empathy and encouragement and may help you navigate heartbreak. Scroll down to check it out.

Illustration: StyleCraze Design Team

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get my power back after a breakup?

Here are a few things you can do to bounce back from a breakup:
• Try the things that you have wanted to do for so long.
• Read a few quotes after a breakup to heal faster.
• Put your focus on worthwhile causes.
• Remind yourself that you deserve so much better.
• Spend more time with the people you love.
• Don’t linger on the past.
• Get excited about what lies ahead.

Is silence the best revenge after a breakup?

Yes, silence is indeed the best revenge after a breakup. It shows that you won’t let the breakup control your life and gives you time to heal and move past the breakup.

Should I post quotes after a breakup?

Posting end-of-relationship quotes on social media after the breakup may not be helpful. It is a passive-aggressive way to cope with your emotions and seek validation from others. It might make you appear needy and weak. It is better to talk to a close group of friends or family members who really understand your pain. You will feel heard and they will actually be able to help you.

How do I motivate my friend after a breakup?

Breakups can be brutal. Help your friend cope with the pain of a breakup by letting them share their side of the story. During this time they are in need of a listener and empathizer rather than a know-it-all guide. When they seem to get better, you can help them see the bigger picture. After they are a bit in control you can cheer them up with uplifting breakup quotes, good movies, books, and friend-dates.

Can reading inspirational quotes really make me feel better after a breakup?

Reading inspirational quotes can help a great deal to cope with the initial stages of grief for your loss. Some inspirational quotes will speak to your heart and open your eyes to a new understanding of your situation. It can make you feel understood and empowered.

How do I know if an inspirational quote is actually helpful or just cheesy?

Inspirational quotes should make you feel powerful and motivated. Cheesy inspirational quotes are too generic and might make you cringe. If they make you feel bad about yourself, angry, or hold grudges with other people, they are not good.

Can inspirational quotes really help me find love again after a breakup?

Inspirational quotes can indirectly help you evolve and find better love. They can nudge you towards self-improvement and liberation from attachments. When you are happy alone, you will surely attract like-minded partners.

How can I cope with my emotions?

Coping with a breakup can feel overwhelming, but acknowledging your feelings is the first step toward healing. You need to allow yourself to grieve. Do not suppress your emotions. You need to surround yourself with supportive friends or family, and engage in activities that bring you joy. If your emotions are too much to handle, consider seeking counselling.

What are some self-care practices to adopt after a breakup?

After a breakup, you can adopt self-care practices that can help restore your emotional balance. Start by focusing on your physical well-being. Exercise regularly, eat nutritious meals, and get enough rest. Set boundaries with social media to avoid constant reminders of your ex.

Illustration: Inspirational Quotes To Strengthen You After A Break Up

Image: Dall·E/StyleCraze Design Team

Still feeling down after a breakup? Check out this video that features 10 breakup quotes to help you feel better and get back on track

Was this article helpful?

Reviewer Author Editor

Sarah KenvilleMA (Marriage and Family Therapy)

     

Sarah Kenville has a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and a law degree. She has 8 years of experience and offers premarital counseling and relationship coaching to dating, engaged, newlywed, and same-sex couples.

Read full bio of Sarah Kenville

Sneha TeteBeauty & Lifestyle Writer

 

Sneha holds a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad and a professional Relationship Coach diploma. With over four years of experience in writing, she specializes in crafting insightful articles on relationships and lifestyle.

Read full bio of Sneha Tete

Shatabdi BhattacharyaAssociate Editor

Shatabdi is an associate editor and an alumnus of Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, where she honed her skills and developed a deep understanding of the world of literature and expression. She has worked with various organizations and websites operating in different industries, ranging from education to lifestyle, showing her adaptability and drive to learn.

Read full bio of Shatabdi Bhattacharya