Quotes About Breakup

#1. The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs ... the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.

Wade Horn

#2. I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Adele

#3. I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out.

Taylor Swift

#4. I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.

Nicole Richie

#5. It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Don Henley

#6. And I know this sounds like another bullshit breakup line, but I really would like to be your friend.

Richelle Mead

#7. Dating, after all, only ends one way: poorly. If you think about it ... all romantic relationships end in either (1) breakup, (2) divorce, or (3) death.

John Green

#8. Why was Will able to buy this cherished object, this marker of some long-past connection between two people, in an antiques store? At some point there had to be an ending, a death or a breakup, and it got tossed in a box to be given away or sold.

Dana Spiotta

#9. And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.

Amy Tan

#10. After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Brittany Murphy

#11. You may continue to call it a breakup. I will continue to call it an exorcism.

Pleasefindthis

#12. I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Lucinda Williams

#13. Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

Meg Ryan

#14. The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

Vladimir Putin

#15. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#16. I've very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out, and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.

Selena Gomez

#17. It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

Sarah Dessen

#18. I'm just tired of being disappointed by guys. I don't understand it. A breakup via text??!!" "I know. He's not playing the game of life on the same level as you. He's not even in the same sport. And it's better to know it now.

Sheri Fink

#19. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Johnny Cash

#20. Such insignificant differences as a few hundred years here or there were the motive for long, long controversies, both public and academic, which almost always resulted in the violent breakup of personal relationships and even in mortal enmities.

Jose Saramago

#21. It had started with a fight that led to a breakup with her boyfriend, and now the whole damned solar system had apparently decided it was time to pay a visit to the Big Apple.

Evan Currie

#22. As time goes by, we
start to see more clearly,
and are able to see that
it wasn't all bad, and that
perhaps just perhaps
the breakup was a gift.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#23. I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Taylor Swift

#24. I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

Brittany Murphy

#25. Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

James Baldwin

#26. New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and ... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#27. For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Kat Edmonson

#28. You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.

Alissa Nutting

#29. I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

Patrick Carney

#30. I'm just saying, tonight, if you're going through a breakup and you're drinking, don't call. Just don't do it. Don't call. Because here's the thing: booze has information in it!

Greg Behrendt

#31. I love you, Garrett. So much. But I figure the pain of a breakup is going to be far easier for you to overcome than the pain of potentially watching me die one day. Trust me, it's better this way.

Anonymous

#32. No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Estelle

#33. What if in every breakup, the dumper gets to live happily ever after, while the dumpee gets a lifetime membership in the Bitter Book Club?

Melissa Kantor

#34. I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Gene Ween

#35. The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

Greg Behrendt

#36. Would you go into a relationship planning the breakup? Would you write the prenup on a first date? Would you meet with a divorce lawyer the morning of your wedding? That would be ridiculous, right?

Jason Fried

#37. A breakup is a loss to both parties; not only to he or she who is told that it's over.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#38. Not every breakup hurts, not every love story sucks. It's the love that comes with a warning that it will hurt you and suck your blood out of you.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#39. It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

Armistead Maupin

#40. On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

Patsy Kensit

#41. I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#42. I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

Karen Salmansohn

#43. Well, we can stay friends if you want. I know I'd like to. But I'll understand if you - " "No, I mean what happens right now. Like, how do you finish a breakup? Like . . . how does this scene end?" (Okay.

Anna Kendrick

#44. What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Alanis Morissette

#45. That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

Laura Dave

#46. Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

Mitchel Musso

#47. To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.

Luke Wilson

#48. After a breakup, I'll conduct the normal breakup rituals. I'll cut up photographs, erase voice mails, gather his dark concert T-shirts I once slept in and douse them with bleach before I use them to clean my bathtub.

Sloane Crosley

#49. If I continued to disregard breakup rules, I might as well go all the way. I pushed her curls behind her shoulder and let my fingers linger longer than needed so I could enjoy the silky feel.

Katie McGarry

#50. The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.

Shay Mitchell

#51. I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then the girl turns absolutely crazy. I always thought growing up like: "No, I won't be like that - when I go through a breakup I'll be cool."

Hayley Williams

#52. He wanted to break up with me in the cafeteria? Fat chance. I leaned toward him and touched his arm in a girlfriend sort of way. "If you planned to stage a public breakup with me, you can forget it."
Amusement showed in his hazel eyes. "Think you can stop me?

Chris Cannon

#53. A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

Linda Wisdom

#54. And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

John Green

#55. I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

Mara Wilson

#56. Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.

Greg Behrendt

#57. When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

Sammy Hagar

#58. Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup.

Peter Bofinger

#59. I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

Ashley Greene

#60. Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'

Karen Salmansohn

#61. When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

Hannah Simone

#62. I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Alexander Lukashenko

#63. As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Barry Eichengreen

#64. I'm a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out.

Selena Gomez

#65. He only felt upset about the breakup because that's what you're supposed to feel.

John Green

#66. 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Ellie Goulding

#67. Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died.

Joyce Rachelle

#68. Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon.

Chelsea Handler

#69. She wasn't his first date
She wasn't his first kiss
She wasn't his first Video-chat
She wasn't his first breakup
But she was last all above
She was his first love

Subhasis Das

#70. So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?

Jennifer Lane

#71. I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Adele

#72. Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Drake

#73. Looked like he truly believed they could pull off an amicable breakup, remain friends, and still live under the same roof. Clearly, testosterone made men delusional.

Katie Graykowski

#74. For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

Greg Behrendt

#75. One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup ... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.

Steve Maraboli

#76. There's never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.

Kenneth Eade

#77. When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.

Christine Lakin

#78. Things are different now. A book I read said three things changed rural America: the breakup of the family farm;

George Hodgman

#79. I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

Adele

#80. The farther the curve strays from the x-axis, the farther the relationship is from breakup.

John Green

#81. Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

Veronica Roth

#82. Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where ... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.

Charlie Puth

#83. You may eventually decide to breakup, and that's fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#84. Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.

Cindy Chupack

#85. After a breakup there's a momentary relief that you're free again. But that's quickly eclipsed by all the good memories you had together and the realization that there won't be any more of them.

Daria Snadowsky

#86. My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

Elayne Boosler

#87. I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Kris Allen

#88. Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

Linda Howard

#89. Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#90. If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Mario Monti

#91. Laird suffered second degree burns ... in the frank and beans area, if you know what I mean.
Trent winced. That must have been one hell of a breakup.

Jennifer Shirk

#92. Breakup is hard enough to live with, why do we need the paperwork of divorce.

Nilesh Rathod

#93. Bradley would do best to remember this is why Taylor Swift wrote more breakup songs than the ones about getting a Happily Ever After

Kade Boehme

#94. Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

John Leguizamo

#95. He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart.

Faith Sullivan

#96. The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker ... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems ... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David Popenoe

#97. I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Christina Aguilera

#98. Unbelievable, I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone's breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about.

Kelley Eskridge

#99. After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself.

Linda Alfiori

#100. I don't know what it is with you and that asshole. Four years and a bad breakup later and you're still in a fucking chemical romance with basketball Ken.

Tarryn Fisher