Top 88 Quotes About Broken Relationships

#1. I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

Lindy West

#2. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

J.S.B. Morse

#5. 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

#6. A broken heart is probably tougher the second time around but just remember those pieces will come together again. The hurt and pain will fade. You will then remember how strong you are. You will thank a broken heart someday, remember that.

Aline Alzime

#7. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

#8. All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

Stephen Covey

#9. I always find heroes who are just like me,
I forget they're only human, and like me, broken

Terrence Alonzo Craft

#10. For a spilt second we stare at each other. I feel an off sense of relief in making that statement. My breath is broken, his face is still. I want to apologise but the words won't come.
Instead I turn round and keep running home.

Dawn O'Porter

#11. I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.

Raza Jaffrey

#12. There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it's the endings we're unprepared for.

Katherine Owen

#13. I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

Coco J. Ginger

#14. You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

Henri Nouwen

#16. The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#17. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

Judy Blume

#18. For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.

Daniela I. Norris

#19. Despite what you've heard, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance leads to poverty, illness, poor jobs and broken relationships.

Alan R. Zimmerman

#20. 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

#21. I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.

Kevin McCloud

#22. Two broken people don't make a whole! Without U, there is no us! Lord, I'm so thankful that U r the U in us!

Evinda Lepins

#23. Willow Mosby, when I look at you, all of the broken pieces fit back together.

Courtney Nuckels

#24. Life had broken her; just as it had broken him. But when they got together, their pieces became whole. And they continued on their journey, together, mended as one.

Steve Maraboli

#25. A scar on the heart will heal.
Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place.

Aline Alzime

#26. 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

#27. There can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday.

Colleen Hoover

#28. Girls like me don't get the fairytales.
Because the white knights never want the dirty, damaged girls.
They know there's nothing left of us that's salvageable...nothing left of us that hasn't already been taken and destroyed.
And saving us? Will only ruin them.

Ashley Jade

#29. nothing hurts worse or steals more joy than broken relationships. We can heal and hurt each other, and we do.

Jen Hatmaker

#30. There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.
But neither of them was soothing; neither of them was a lie.

Sanhita Baruah

#31. Love is so many things, but it is not safe.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. You didn't break my heart; you freed it.

Steve Maraboli

#33. Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday.

Steve Maraboli

#34. I am unlovable ... I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Jeff Lindsay

#35. If I wasn't so phenomenal. I would go back to you.

Coco J. Ginger

#36. It won't be whiskey, won't be meth
It'll be your name on my last breath
If divorce or death ever do us part
The coroner will call it a broken heart

The Band Perry

#37. In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.

Claire Merle

#38. We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spill'd on promiscuous lips

We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily-news
Printed in blood on its wings

Mina Loy

#39. Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#40. When I think about my own relationships to the women that I really loved, it feels like that love, even after we've broken up and we're no longer speaking, that love never goes away. No one told me that.

Junot Diaz

#41. Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.

Donna Lynn Hope

#42. You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.

Steve Maraboli

#43. Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don't ever alter the love you can give. Don't let a broken heart hinder your kind of love.

Aline Alzime

#44. The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

Philip Zaleski

#45. Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

Dennis E. Adonis

#46. You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart.
- Adieu

Kate Chisman

#47. Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

James Anderson

#48. Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.

Colleen Hoover

#49. There would be a lot less broken hearts when a relationship fails, if people would understand there's no reason to want someone that doesn't want you. Never allow yourself to feel half empty, when you deserve a relationship that will fill your heart with happiness.

Ron Baratono

#50. Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Yuvraj Singh

#51. But the important thing now is to enjoy yourself. A broken heart doesn't heal until you lose it to someone else. You need diversion. You should simply play, play, play - surround yourself with men until one of them makes you forget all about this poor, childish, confused Adam.

Emily Croy Barker

#52. To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#53. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all ... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

Bruce Coville

#54. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#55. It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

Amy Sedaris

#56. I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Thora Birch

#57. I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Selena Gomez

#58. A boy made of stardust and selfishness; a girl filled with fire and fury at the world. We are a tangle of emotional wreckage, two broken messes thrown together, trying to navigate something we can barely comprehend.

Julie Johnson

#59. I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jay-Z

#60. I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?

Sanhita Baruah

#61. 'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.
Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.

Nenia Campbell

#62. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

D. Love

#63. Let's be friends before lovers, don't ask to be my friend after you've broken my heart.

Jasmine Sandozz

#64. Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus' death and resurrection to put all things in right relationship again.

Brian Fikkert

#65. A broken women has nothing to offer a whole man. A broken man has nothing to offer a whole women. Why? The successful relationship is predicated on each person coming to the union to give, give, give ... this is the perfect formula for success! Broken people are needy and selfish!!

Mz Liz

#66. Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

Piper Payne

#67. All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony.

Herbert Lockyer

#68. There comes a time in a girl's life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together

Kara Lee Hunter

#69. If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

Eckhart Tolle

#70. Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever ...

Debolina Bhawal

#71. 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

#72. They thought they were helping me ...
but I didn't need help.
They thought they were fixing me ...
but I wasn't broken.
They thought they were watering me ...
but they were drowning me.

Steve Maraboli

#73. A disastrous flaw in our design is that the heart always defies the brain.

Piper Payne

#74. We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

Ann Aguirre

#75. I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.

Karen Quan

#76. For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

Osamu Dazai

#77. ... 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

#78. There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him ... Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?

Donna Lynn Hope

#79. Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together

Alex Haditaghi

#80. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Stephen Covey

#81. Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!

Shannon L. Alder

#82. Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#83. Divorce is a bitch and marriage is the mother of that bitch.

Nilesh Rathod

#84. Young girls live in mythology.Their music, their moves, their relationships. Heartbreak makes them feel grown-up. Nothing a young girl wants more than to feel grown-up, and she'll lay waste to anyone for the taste of a broken heart.

Micah Nathan

#85. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Steve Pemberton

#86. A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.

Mary Oliver

#87. This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you're so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape's holding!

Sara Quin

#88. A promise broken is another promise ahead shattered!

Michael S. McKinney

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