Break Up Quotes
Breaking-up has been written about in songs, poems, short stories and books. Break-up quotes have also been passed around. It is one of those experiences in life where the pain and the sadness are magnified a hundred times over and you feel you will never get out of your melancholy.
If it’s any consolation, breaking-up is not exclusive to only a few people. Everyone has had the experience of breaking-up with someone they love at some point in their lives.
The pain of love knows no age, race or background. Love strikes on its whim and just as easily leaves without warning.
Break-Up Quotes
On saying goodbye:
“Now that destiny has pulled us apart, each with a secret, unhealed wound in the heart; life has made us both more distant than strangers – no longer even friends, surely, no longer lovers.” – Rolando Carbonell
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“Breaking-up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.” – Usher
On dealing with a broken vow:
“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
On moving on:
“Sad ending are but the next happy beginning.” – Anonymous
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” – Samuel Johnson
“Every happy couple has a break-up in their past.” – Anonymous
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
“I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I’m open to anything that will happen to me.” – Nicole Kidman
General:
“When you break-up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.” – Dennis Quaid
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – Wizard of Oz
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