69 Heartbreak Quotes For Healing

Heartbreak is a universal experience, often leaving us feeling lost and vulnerable. Yet, in the depths of sadness, words have a unique power to comfort and heal. Our carefully curated selection of the top 69 heartbreak quotes offers solace, understanding, and hope to those navigating the painful journey of healing. Whether you’re seeking a gentle reminder that you are not alone, or words that resonate with your own emotions, these quotes will help mend your heart, one line at a time. Embrace the journey towards healing and discover the strength within you through the wisdom of these poignant expressions.

1. “Yet nothing can to nothing fall,Nor any place be empty quite;Therefore I think my breast hath allThose pieces still, though they be not unite;And now, as broken glasses showA hundred lesser faces, soMy rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,But after one such love, can love no more.” - John Donne

2. “Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can’t just fix one with no concern for the other. ” - Charles Martin

3. “The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.” - Becca Fitzpatrick

4. “I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.” - Roland Merullo

5. “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

6. “Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?” - J.R. Ward

7. “amor es mentira. (diaz hanafiah)” - Sitta Karina

8. “Hold on little girlShow me what he's done to youStand up little girlA broken heart can't be that badWhen it's through, it's through Fate will twist the both of you So come on baby come on over Let me be the one to show you” - Mr. Big

9. “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” - D.H. Lawrence

10. “A broken heart bleeds tears.” - Steve Maraboli

11. “… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.” - Steve Toltz

12. “Smartass Disciple: Master, how do you heal the broken heart?Master of Stupidity: It isn’t a disease need to be healed. It’s life.” - Toba Beta

13. “She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.” - Brad Meltzer

14. “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

15. “Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.” - Toba Beta

16. “A wounded heart needs aloof.” - Toba Beta

17. “She remembered the day vividly, for 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

18. “That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though. ” - Jane Green

19. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.” - Jodi Picoult

20. “I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

21. “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.” - Margaret George

22. “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

23. “I love the way you refuse my love.” - Toba Beta

24. “This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.” - James Patterson

25. “Julie smiled a tight little smile and shook her head at her own foolhardiness.But I did it because I love him, she told herself. I love him still. God help me. So this is how it feels to have your break...” - Jennifer Wilde

26. “You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!” - RJ Gonzales

27. “I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.” - L.M. Montgomery

28. “I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.” - L.M. Montgomery

29. “I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.” - Cassandra Clare

30. “Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.” - Aberjhani

31. “Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.” - H.C.Paye

32. “Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.” - H.C. Paye

33. “I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.” - H.C. Paye

34. “I think you're the kind of man a girl can count on. You just can't let go of losing your family. You can't let yourself love because you think your heart can't handle it . . . that something bad will happen. But you're wrong. It's true . . . grief is the price for love. But hearts are made to mend. Christ can do wonders with a broken heart, if given all the pieces.” - Suzanne Woods Fisher

35. “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.” - Patti Roberts

36. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” - Patti Roberts

37. “There is a big difference between having your heart broken and being the one responsible for a broken heart. I was twelve years old and had already experienced both.” - Eveli Acosta

38. “I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.” - Coco J. Ginger

39. “Sancı filan da çekme olur mu? Dünyada yeterince acı var zaten.” - Oğuz Atay

40. “You do know baby. You’re just scared and that’s okay. But don’t throw away yourchance for happiness because you’re afraid to take the leap or because you know someone ends up hurt. No matter what you choose, someonewas always going to end up heartbroken. But if there’s a chance two hearts can be blissfully happy together in love, then that’s worth the broken heart of one. They will mend. They will find love again and be happy. But if you do this, let them both walk away, the only heart that will break andstay broken is yours baby.” - Marie Coulson

41. “Nobody think about that broken heart... life goes on, broken heart never join together but it tries very hard to get joined again. That;swhy may be it said "Heart is like a mirror, if its broken can never be joined.” - Shahid Islam

42. “In Nature, things are broken with a purpose—clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants … so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose...” - Debashis Dey

43. “...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...” - John Geddes

44. “No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.” - Alethea Kontis

45. “I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.” - Evelyn Waugh

46. “People—especially men—don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may quit.” With a broken heart. As if she'd read her mind, Abuelita frowned and scolded, “Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever.” - Cherise Sinclair

47. “I was crazy in love with you in high school, and you broke my heart the day you hooked up with someone else our sophomore year. Then you broke it again when you promised me you’d dump him the night we kissed and go out with me instead, because the next morning, you forgot all about me.” - Linda Kage

48. “Rational was for people who didn’t have a broken heart.” - Linda Kage

49. “Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.” - Kate Chisman

50. “Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” - Leo Tolstoy

51. “Break my heart or break my fall.” - Amber Newberry

52. “Danny looked stunned. “But what about the people who care about you?”I shook my head. “They shouldn’t waste their time … I’m not gonna change. I can’t be fixed Danny!” I wiped ferociously at the tears that were falling down my cheeks and threw him a challenging look. “I’m not trying to fix you Darcie.” Danny told me softly, his eyes boring into mine. “But you have to realise that everyone’s a little bit broken and all they need is someone to help fill in the holes and cracks – that’s all.” - Joanne McClean

53. “We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.” - Jocelyn Soriano

54. “We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.” - Jocelyn Soriano

55. “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

56. “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

57. “You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I can see you, so don't cheat me here. Close those eyes of yours. Put 'em, real tight. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. The first person that dumped you. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. I want you to sing. I want to heal that with you right now. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive.Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.” - Tegan Quin Live @ Cain's Ballroom 9 11 10

58. “There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.” - Brian MacLearn

59. “True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.” - D. Morgenstern

60. “A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.” - Patti Callahan Henry

61. “Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.” - Blow.. Johnny Depp

62. “But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy expanded.It seemed there was such a thing as a broken heart.” - Sarah MacLean

63. “I live precariously through my characters - so I want them to be loved passionately, live vibrantly, love unconditionally. Make friends they would die for - Explore unimaginable possibilities from all warps of life. And to never forget those that held their hands when life got scary. Wiped their tears away after a broken heart. Helped them back on their feet when others let them down. I want my characters to have family and friends - just like mine :)” - Patti Roberts

64. “Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "always coddling and admonishing." The answer Dr. John would have given did not come; that his heart was hurt became evident in his eye; darkened, and saddened, and pained, he turned a little aside, but was patient.” - Charlotte Brontë

65. “In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.” - Rebecah McManus

66. “I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” - Steve Maraboli

67. “Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday.” - Steve Maraboli

68. “I fix what's broken - except in the heart.” - Bernard Malamud

69. “No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.” - Cassandra Giovanni