Experiencing a heartbreak is pretty much awful and one of the worst experiences in someone’s life. Betrayal could be devastating for some people. Anyone can relate that being emotionally hurt is so consuming that it can follow throughout life. At times, you may feel alone but somewhere it is true that brokenness is a universal thing and almost everyone at some point in life has faced it. Dealing with a broken heart all alone is immensely dreadful and no matter how hard you try, the pain doesn’t go away.
Well to get over someone and to mend your broken heart takes a lot of time. The best way is to allow your emotions to run high and you can seek some help from these ‘ Broken Heart Quotes’ that will soothe and help you mourn the pain that resides inside of you.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck
If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
C. S. Lewis
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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
Brains are like hearts – they go where they are appreciated.
Robert McNamara
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Dylan Thomas
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D. H. Lawrence
Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Francoise Sagan
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells
Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Javan
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Charles Simeon
Emotionally Heartbroken Quotes
We as humans are chained to experience love and affection from each other but sometimes life unfolds in a different way! Wellbeing hurt by someone whom you’ve opened up your heart is extremely traumatic. People get emotionally broken because they experience gut-wrenching pain from their significant other. During this extremely painful time, you suddenly feel vulnerable and powerless and may go through many sleepless nights, anger, void, depression, which makes you realize that things will never be the same as they once were.
As you go through this collection of emotionally broken quotes, you will come to realize that several other people share the same pain as you!
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.Anne Hathaway
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.Octavia Butler
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.Lao Tzu
“Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.” – Deepika Padukone
“You broke my heart, but i still love you with all the pieces.”
“My mistake was making you a priority, when I was your second choice.”
“I wish I had the power to ignore you, like you, ignore me.”
“I hate that I’m still hoping.”
“My mouth says, “I’m ok.” My fingers text, “I’m fine.” My heart says, “I’m broken.”
“And suddenly, we were strangers again.”
“I don’t get it. You said I’m important to you but you still make me feel that I’m not worth your time.”
“I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” – Christie Brinkley
“I gave you my heart; I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.”
“So here’s the thing with broken hearts. No matter how you try, the pieces never fit the way they did before.” – Ariana
“The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.”
“Breaking a woman’s heart is deeper than men realize. It destroys her outlook on love, breaks her heart, rips her self-esteem to shreds, tortures her mind, and damages her soul. Don’t let her fall for you, unless you plan on picking her up.”
“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.” – James Patterson
“I thought you were healing me. But no, you just broke me even more.”
“Have you ever been so sad that it physically hurts inside?”
“It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes an even stronger heart to continue to love after it’s been hurt.”
“One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you. Then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Aubrey Drake Graham
“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
“You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.” – Stelle Atwater
“Love is the hardest drug to quit, but it is even harder when it is taken away.” – Ashleyy
Painful Heartbroken Quotes
When it comes to heartbreak, no matter who you are, what you are, and how old you are, it is always hard to deal with the pain. We come across so many poems, stories, and quotes about heartaches that exhibit how painful it can be when someone leaves without any reason. That’s how we will come to know how an individual expresses the feelings of heartbreak in its own way. Writing quotes may have given some people a sense of solace and for others, it has become a way to calm their inner affliction.
We have gathered a list of painful heartbroken quotes that will definitely hit a note with your ongoing feelings. You don’t need to dwell on the emotions of a broken heart all alone. These quotes will accompany you to take comfort in your hard times!
“I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.”
Julia Roberts
“As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling.“
Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.“
Violeta Parra
“Let’s hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people.“
Mansi Soni
“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only one person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.“
Jocelyn Soriano
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.“
Sara Teasdale
“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears.“
Criss Jami
“How can you forget the day your heart is broken? The funny thing about a broken heart is that it’s not fatal. Though you wish in vain that it were, life continues on and you have no choice but to continue on with it. You take the hand that fate has dealt you and you press forward because there is nothing else that can be done.“
Tracy Winegar
“When you are standing in [a]forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope“
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.“
Patti Roberts
“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.“
H.C. Paye
“And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.“
Elizabeth Eulberg
“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
“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It’s just a matter of willpower: The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it.“
Junot Díaz
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.“
Richard Puz
“A broken heart bleeds tears.“
Steve Maraboli
“A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. […] It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams as if there were nothing the matter with it.“
L.M. Montgomery
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.“
Carroll Bryant
“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!“
Jocelyn Soriano
“However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.“
Manna Francis
“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.“
Aman Jassal
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it’s perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.“
Sarah Dessen
“Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete.“
Anmol Rawat
“The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.“
Anmol Rawat
“I hate you for all the years I’ll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?“
Lisa Kleypas
“I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning. You left me fending for my life and it feels like you’re the only one who can bring me back to the shore alive.“
Denice Envall
“It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.“
Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.“
Fulton J. Sheen
“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.“
Federico Chini
“I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive.“
Patti Roberts
“I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.“
Sara Evans
“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
“It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.“
Katie Ashley
“Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.“
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
“Heaven doesn’t ignore cries of a broken heart.“
Toba Beta
“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
“The heart was made to be broken.“
Oscar Wilde
“Must I go bound while you go free, must I love a man who doesn’t love me, must I be born with so little art, as to love a man who’ll break my heart“
Cassandra Clare
“I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, “I have wonderful news!” And I was like, “I don’t really want to hear wonderful news right now,” and Gus said, “This is wonderful news you want to hear,” and I asked him, “Fine, what is it?” and he said, “You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I’d shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn’t shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn’t want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he’d felt like The One. Even if I’d always thought we’d end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.”
― Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted
“As Qhuinn looked at his best friend’s handsome face, he felt as if he’d never not known that red hair, those blue eyes, those lips, that jaw. And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was . . . I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don’t know how to find you even though you’re right in front of me.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
“I wore your promise on my finger for one year
I’ll wear your name on my heart til I die
Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
“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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
It is possible that we may go through something painful that rips our heart out. At that time we seek comfort in others and want to spend some time alone as well. Those are the moments when this collection of broken heart quotes will help you to heal and go along the process.
