After Heartbreak Quotes

#1. Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

E. Lockhart

#2. They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

Jandy Nelson

#3. There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Douglas Adams

#4. I first got very thin after Ashley. I felt like my stomach was doing backflips - like my emotions had taken over and made me full.

Cheryl Cole

#5. And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

George Orwell

#6. My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.

Michael Gilbert

#8. Falling in love happens many times in our lives. I'm looking on the bright side - I might be one heartbreak away from happily ever after! - Penelope Jones

Penelope Jones

#9. How do you make love to someone when you know they'll be gone forever the next day? How do you spend the last few hours with someone when you know there will never be
anything after that?

B.G. Harlen

#10. People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.

Julie Johnson

#11. It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it's been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded - that's how I feel about her. She wasn't there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.

Laura Miller

#13. Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

Richard Russo

#14. First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.
But if it's not like that, be brief in forgetting
And after you've forgotten, don't keep anything.

Victor Hugo

#15. You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did.
"Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela,
"and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.

Emma Forrest

#16. The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

Frank Sinatra

#17. Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.

Donna Lynn Hope

#18. It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.

Jandy Nelson

#19. Breaking up is like unsticking your fingers after you've Superglued them. Love's the glue and no matter how slow and carefully you separate, you're going to lose a little bit of yourself in the process. You're also going to retain a little DNA from the one you lost.

Toni Sorenson

#20. After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#21. But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.

Marissa Meyer

#22. Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

Jojo Moyes

#23. I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

Norman Rush

#24. After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

Kelly Cutrone

#25. Even after seven years and a failed engagement to another man, my one true heartbreak had remained at the hands of my stepbrother.

Penelope Ward

#26. Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak.
Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was.

Jandy Nelson

#27. Seeing his face after months was as immediate as a pointed gun.

Marie-Helene Bertino

#28. I miss everything about you
Can't believe that I still want you
And after all the things we've been through

Colbie Caillat

#29. I don't care to be someone's first love,
I care to be their second or third; after every heartbreak they had experienced, I was worthy enough for them to move forward and this to me is greater than any first's of someone's heart.

Nikki Rowe

#30. We had twenty eight days together but it feels like a lifetime. She's right, without her it feels like I'm being strangled and fighting for air. I can't just sit here day after day wishing I could at least see her face. -Colin

K. Lars

#31. What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.

Junot Diaz

#32. No! he wanted to cry out. No, Tania, please come back. What can I leave her with, what can I say, what one word can I leave with her, for her? What one word for my wife?
"Tatiasha," Alexander called after her. God, what was the curator's name ... ?
She glanced back.
"Remember Orbeli-

Paullina Simons