57 Sad Broken Heart Quotes That Will Help You Feel Better

Nothing can be more painful and hurtful than heartbreak. It is hard to forget the memories, and the good, old times can haunt you every minute. But our list of broken heart quotes can help ease your pain and support you to move on in life. So, accept the reality at the earliest, focus more on self-love, do things that make you feel happy, and mend your heart. In this article, we have compiled a beautiful collection of 57 sad quotes about broken hearts that will help you recover. Scroll down for more information.

Quotes About Broken Hearts To Ease Your Pain and Sadness

Broken Heart Quotes About Grief

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1. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you, and then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go forever.” – Aubrey Drake Graham
2. “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, come back my love.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
3. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” – Julia Roberts
4. “One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation.” – Ali Shaw
5. “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news.They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” – Anne Lamott
6. “Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.” –  Violeta Parra
7. “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
8. “Every second of every day, I still love them, and I won’t believe they are dead until I see it for myself.” – Shannon A. Thompson
9. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye

Broken Heart Quotes About Regret

1. “Realized I gave my heart to someone that didn’t care at all and I found it crying in the corner.” – Mahmoud El Hallab
2. “There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.” – Ashley Lorenzana
3. “How do you love someone and just… Walk away? Just like that. You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that? How can you be okay with that?” – Ranata Suzuki
4. “Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.” – Unknown
5. “There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.” – Pearl Buck
6. “Maybe I should’ve listened to my head instead of my heart and gotten the hell away from you as fast as I could.” – Unknown
7. “I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
8. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” –  Mark Twain
9. “The saddest thing about getting your heart broken is always being afraid to ever love and trust someone like you did the first time. A broken heart is hard to heal once you’ve fallen so deep.” – Telisa McLaughlin
10. “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton Sheen
11. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
12. “Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.” – Unknown
13. “The hardest thing is not talking to someone you used to talk to every day.” – SumNan
14. “One of the hardest things to do in life is letting go of what you thought was real.” —Kathleen Aquino
15.  “Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up.” — Patti Callahan Henry
16.  “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
17. “I can feel myself slowly fading from your mind.” – Hritwik Ghosh

Broken Heart Quotes About Moving On

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1. “Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you’re holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you’re lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.” – Kennedy Kasares
2. “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir
3. “People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” – Bill Cosby
4. “Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
5. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” –  Robert Frost
6. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
7. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Josh Jameson
8. “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
9. “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
10. “I loved him, every inch of his being, but I realized one day; if loving him meant losing me, then loving him was not enough anymore.” – Nikki Rowe
11. “Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you’re holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you’re lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.” – Kennedy Kasares
12. “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.” – Tao Te Ching
13. “And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.” – Elizabeth Eulberg
14. “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Unknown
15. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
16. “Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”– Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Broken Heart Quotes About Friendship

1. “The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” — Heather Brewer
2. “Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” – Unknown
3. “Friends are people who make you laugh, who support and encourage you. Don’t feel sad if you lose a friendship that doesn’t do that.” – Catherine Pulsifer
4. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” – Nicole Richie
5. “The worst thing ever is seeing your best friend slowly replacing you with another friend.” – Unknown
6. “The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.” – Hector Hugh Munro
7. “Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.” –  Sean Covey
8. “Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.” – Frank Ocean
9. “No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you’re fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they’re the ones who teach you the most about yourself.” – Kate Hudson
10. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” — Confucius
11. “Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as temporary happiness.” – Unknown
12. “Friends are people who make you laugh, who support and encourage you. Don’t feel sad if you lose a friendship that doesn’t do that.” – Catherine Pulsifer
13. “I had acquaintances…but then they’d always start trying to get away, like they’d turned over some stone in my personality and found a poisonous snake.” –  Jason Schmidt
14. “It hurts me so bad whenever I recall all what you have done to me and I want to instantly leave you behind but am disappointed because I lack courage to run.” – Unknown
15. “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” – Unknown

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I express my broken heart?

There are several ways to express a broken heart. One of the most popular ways is writing poems or songs.

Do broken hearts ever heal from quotes?

Broken hearts may not heal from quotes, but they may ease the pain and help you move forward.

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