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40 Breakup Quotes To Help You Heal and Move On

List Of 40 Breakup Quotes To Help You Heal and Move On:

#1 Michael Bassey Johnson

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

#2 Amit Kalantri

“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”

#3 Miss Piggy

“Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”

#4 Dave Mustaine

“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”

#5 Jalaluddin Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

#6 Jerry Seinfeld

”Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.”

#7 Bess Myerson

”To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”

#8 Melody Carstairs

“That feeling you get when you want to tell some one you love them, and there is no one there..”

#9 Mary Manin Morrissey

“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.”

#10 Tupac Shakur

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move […] on.”

#11 Deepak Chopra

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

#12 Brie Larson

“I’ve become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because I’ve been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.”

#13 Ernie Harwell

“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

#14 Vironika Tugaleva

“To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.”

#15 George Bernard Shaw

”It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned; nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”     

#16 Anonymous

“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 one comes along.”

#17 Donna Lynn Hope

“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.”

#18 Deborah Reber

“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.”

#19 Nikita Gill

“You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?”

#20 Julia Roberts

”I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.”

#21 Criss Jami

“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.”

#22 Turcois Ominek

“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.”

#23 Charlaine Harris

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

#24 Guy Finley

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”

#25 Socrates

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

#26 Walter Anderson

“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.”

#27 Jenny Han

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.”

#28 Barney Stinson

“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.”

#29 James Dashner

“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”

#30 Marilyn Monroe

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

#31 Steve Maraboli

“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.”

#32 Joel Osteen

“Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.”

#33 Drake

”You have the right to leave someone, but at least tell them why, cause what’s even more painful than being abandoned, is knowing you’re not worth an explanation.”

#34 Samiha Totanji

“Isn’t so scary that the person you used to daydream about is the same one who left you with so many nightmares?!”

#35 Paulo Coelho

”When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”

#36 Haruki Murakami

“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 should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain.”

#37 Ranata Suzuki

”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?”

#38 Mandy Hale

“If you lost it, it’s because you’re meant to find something better. Trust, let go, and make room for what’s coming.”

#39 Dr. Seuss

”I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.”

#40 R.H. Sin

“The easiest way to teach someone how to treat you is to refuse to give them more opportunities to hurt you. Walk away…”

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