Going through a breakup? You’re not alone. Lots of people have been there, and many have shared words of wisdom to help others. That’s why I’ve put together this list of 121 power breakup quotes.
They’re here to lift you up when you’re feeling down.
Sometimes, other people’s words can say what we can’t. These quotes might help you make sense of your feelings. They come from all sorts of people. Some are from famous folks, others from regular people who’ve been through tough times.
We hope these quotes give you strength. Maybe they’ll make you smile, or help you see things differently.
Remember, it’s okay to be sad. But these quotes might remind you that better days are coming. So, ready for some words of encouragement? Let’s dive in!
121 Power Breakup Quotes
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- “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” – Haruki Murakami
- “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.” – W. Somerset Maugham
- “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
- “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
- “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone” – James Dashner
- Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? 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.” – Ally Condie
- “Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It’s a lie. It’s just something that people say they’ll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly’ relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it’s like breaking up all over again. But messier.” – Sarah Dessen
- “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
- “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you. Some people might find that strange. But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?” – Nikita Gill
- “We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.” – Jenny Han
- “Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.” – Graham Greene
- You asked why I couldn’t forgive you,” Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. “It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn’t want to be. That’s hard to let go.” – Kristan Higgins
- “Time will make it worse! You’re…the other half of his soul. He’s never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will… you’ll never get over him. You’re going to wake up one day and realize what you’ve done, and you’re going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.” – Jamie McGuire
- “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
- “Stuart needs “space” and “time,” as if this were physics and not a human relationship.” – Kathryn Stockett
- “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” – Amit Kalantri
- “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.” – Criss Jami
- “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “Thought I couldn’t live without you. It’s gonna hurt when it heals too. Even though I really love you. I’m gonna smile cause I deserve to. Quickly I’m learning to love again. All I know is I’mma be ok” – Leona Lewis
- “If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart. How can you? He has it.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief…. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance ….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “I’ll tell you something, Harpy,” he said, his voice almost a whisper now. “It never even occurred to me that we wouldn’t make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.” – Kristan Higgins
- “It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs….. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
- “I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.” – Ranata Suzuki
- “If someone can walk away from you, let them walk.” – Anonymous
- “It’s better to be single with a standard than losing yourself for approval.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t let someone who isn’t worth your love make you forget how much you are worth.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.” – Anonymous
- “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize that He saved you from the wrong one.” – Anonymous
- “Some things break your heart but fix your vision.” – Anonymous
- “Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Anonymous
- “Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Anonymous
- “I will not allow myself to not feel chosen every single day. And I’ll wait till whenever that is.” – Hannah Brown
- “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “No boyfriend, no problems.” – Anonymous
- “Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.” – Anonymous
- “Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a brand new opportunity to rebuild what you truly want.” – Anonymous
- “Inhale the future, exhale the past.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” – Mohadesa Najumi
- “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.” – Frank Ocean
- “We have to be whole people to find whole love” – Cheryl Strayed
- “The people that are quick to walk away are the ones that never intended to stay.” – Anonymous
- “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – The Wizard of Oz
- “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
- “The hardest thing I’ll ever do is walk away still loving you.” – Anonymous
- “Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move on.” – Anonymous
- “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” – Anonymous
- “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
- “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
- “Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” – Anonymous
- “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Anonymous
- “What do you do when the person who broke your heart is the only one who can fix it?” – Anonymous
- “Sharp is the arrows of a broken heart.” – Cassandra Clare
- “The way they leave tells you everything.” – Rupi Kaur
- “The toughest part of letting go is realizing the other person already did.” – Lalla
- “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, Annie Hall
- “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” – Gugu Mofokeng
- “I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
- “I’m no longer following my heart. It keeps giving me bad directions.” – Anonymous
- “Please don’t be fooled by Adele. You’ll never find someone like me.” – Anonymous
- “If they are stupid enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go.” – Anonymous
- “One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek
- “I hope you step on a Lego.” – Anonymous
- “Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
- “I like my relationships like I like my eggs — over easy.” – Jared Kintz
- “Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.” – Francoise Sagan
- “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – RuPaul
- “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because he is finally someone else’s problem.” – Anonymous
- “We need to take our relationship to the previous level.” – Anonymous
- “Our relationship is like my financial status: broke.” – Anonymous
- “You’ve never really had your heart broken until you have to block and delete everything after a breakup.” – Anonymous
- “You’re doing great out there without me, baby/Like a damn sociopath” – Olivia Rodrigo
- “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
- “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
- “Falling for you was my mistake.” – The Weeknd
- “Did it frighten you, how we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?” – Lorde
- “Does it ever get lonely, thinking you could live without me?” – Halsey
- “Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else.” – Hailee Steinfeld
- “Thank you, next.” – Ariana Grande
- “My ex asked me, ‘Where you movin’?’ I said, ‘On to better things.'” – Drake
- We are never ever, ever getting back together.” – Taylor Swift
- “You made my heart break and that made me who I am.” – Little Mix
- “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, Gone With the Wind
- “I know my heart will never be the same. But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” – Sara Evans
- “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
- “It’s so empowering to say, ‘This isn’t serving me,’ and walk away in peace.” – Anonymous
- “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” – Jan Glidewell
- “We too, like trees can shake off our dead leaves and begin again.” – A.Y. Greyson
- “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
- “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
- “Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
- “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
- “The only way out is through.” – Robert Frost
- “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
- “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
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “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
- “You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.” – Louise Erdrich
- “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
- “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.” – Sandra Bullock
- “You can’t move things by not moving.” – Suzy Kassem
- “I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” – A. A. Milne
- “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Michael McMillian
- “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
- “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.” – Jim Butcher
- “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
- “There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” – Anonymous
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye
- “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
- “Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.” – Christopher Barzak
Final Thoughts
Breakups are tough, but you’re tougher. Remember that as you heal.
These quotes on relationship struggles can help light your way. They’re like little pep talks from people who’ve been there. Use them when you need a boost.
Healing takes time. Some days will be harder than others. That’s okay and normal.
Focus on yourself now. Do things you love. Hang out with friends. Try new hobbies. You might feel alone, but you’re not. Lots of people have gone through this. They made it, and so will you.
Keep your head up. Better days are coming. You’re stronger than you think.
This breakup doesn’t define you. It’s just a chapter in your story. The best chapters might be yet to come. Believe in yourself. You’ve got this!