Top 60 Quotes About Break Ups
#1. Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.
Dov Davidoff
#2. I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.
Lizzy Caplan
#3. Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
Bipasha Basu
#4. I'm something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that's key.
John Niven
#5. Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.
Winona Ryder
#6. In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.
Joanna Newsom
#7. Break ups aren't fair. Why does only one person have power? We both agreed to start dating. Why do you get to make the decision to end it? Shouldn't it be a joint decision too?
Relationships aren't a democracy. Not everyone gets an equal vote.
Alyssa Ivy Rose
#8. With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.
David Levithan
#9. It's the process of making-do,
of the life I've lived between
breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life
worth living.
I could not bear a life
with everything perfect.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#10. The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
Pedro Almodovar
#11. It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
Mona Simpson
#12. When it comes to break ups:
Don't get mad ... just live a better life and forget about it!
Timothy Pina
#13. Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.
Harriet Evans
#16. At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it for more or its beauty may be lost.
Danielle Pierre
#17. Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in.
Karen Salmansohn
#18. It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.
Al Leiter
#19. She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.
Michelle Tea
#20. One of the odd things about living in an apartment was that you could walk out of someone's life but still have to wait for the elevator. (p.220)
James Collins
#21. I could've sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn't miss you.
Pleasefindthis
#22. When a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections.."
"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?
Gaston Leroux
#23. You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will
even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.
Melissa Bank
#24. That I don't feel upset by us really being over almost trivializes how special and intense our relationship once was.
Daria Snadowsky
#25. When the tears were gone I washed my face and walked back to the store to finish my shopping. Because even when your heart is breaking you still need bread and Rice Krispies and orange juice.
R.J. Keller
#26. Crying over a guy?
nahhhh!
heads up princess, your tiara is falling
Urtear
#27. You fall in love without knowing and break up when you knows everything.
Pratik Akkawar
#30. I know I'm the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.
Cassandra Giovanni
#31. Some people don't realize what they have until it's gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.
Stephan Labossiere
#32. I know you're just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you're just the dream inside of a dream And don't worry, I know I don't know you, anymore.
Pleasefindthis
#33. Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of your children. What kind of environment would they be growing up in with such a mother?
Krystal Sutherland
#34. A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.
Rachel Higginson
#35. Now,
Because I put you in the past,
My life is like:
A path paved,
Fit for your feet.
Now other women walk on it;
And not one of them fits.
Walking crooked, on a path that's straight.
I watch them.
They don't even have your gait.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#37. Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
Paolo Giordano
#38. Let's still be friends (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).
Lauren Leto
#39. Who do those boys think they are, treating us as if we are their property, taking away our innocence?
Tessa Emily Hall
#40. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
Sarah Dessen
#41. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever ...
Judy Blume
#42. Call me later, you'd said, so I could call you later, at night, and it is those nights I miss you, Ed, the most, on the phone, you beautiful bastard.
Daniel Handler
#43. A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!
Shannon L. Alder
#44. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...
Sanhita Baruah
#45. I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought I'd go mad, if I stayed.
Sarah Rayner
#46. I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.
Rachel Higginson
#47. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.
Karen Salmansohn
#48. Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.
Mary E. Pearson
#49. My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.
Koren Zailckas
#50. Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good.
Manasa Rao
#51. The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
Emily Giffin
#52. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#53. I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
Freya North
#54. Once in a while, I smell Clive on my skin and it stops my day. It's a train crossing; I wait to pass. Eventually the lights stop flashing, the barriers lift. I keep moving.
Marie-Helene Bertino
#55. It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#56. Aren't you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren't these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?
Mike Gayle
#57. If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.
Dan Brown
#58. Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.
Freya North
#59. Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.
Karen Salmansohn
#60. How satisfying will it be to know that no matter what happens to your relationship and no matter where or with whom he ends up in his life that you taught him everything he knows ... ? Catty? Maybe, but that's a fun thought.
Roberto Hogue
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