The Breakup Quotes

#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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

John Green

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

Drake

#14. 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

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

George Hodgman

#16. 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

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

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

John Leguizamo

#19. our foundation is rocky
because we made a home
in each other's skin.
the damage is beginning
to show.

K.Y. Robinson

#20. Today is the day you have gone away and today is also the day I have died.
Lets mourn for me, her and my love.

Crash

#21. When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. I've spoken to Sid," she admits. "He says he's never seen Charlie so bad. He won't eat, he's lost weight and he looks terrible. Sid says it's the first time he's ever been so bored by him that he's considered smothering him.

Lily Morton

#23. When I let go of my own work, my own priorities, I lost the qualities he had been attracted to in the first place. That's how he put it. He loved the woman I was before I was in love with him.

Alexis M. Smith

#24. Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

Nicki Minaj

#25. Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Tom Perrotta

#26. You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.

Kristan Higgins

#27. 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

#28. What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.

Charlotte Eriksson

#29. 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

#30. I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life ... The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

Nick Hornby

#31. 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

#32. The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

Charlaine Harris

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

Norris Church Mailer

#36. 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

#37. Do the things that you always wanted to, without me there to hold you back, don't think just do, more than anything I want to see you go, take a glorious bite out of the whole world

Snow Patrol

#38. Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to know

Drake

#39. When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.

Robin Lopez

#40. I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#41. The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.

Tim Wu

#42. 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

#43. Broken people are the most dangerous...because they just don't give a fuck

Ashley Jade

#44. 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

#45. If someone had problem with me, they had to find what it is, similarly if I had any problem with someone, I need to find out myself then only problem solves. Otherwise the problem will become the cause of break up in any relationship.

Nutan Bajracharya

#46. You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#47. Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

Paolo Giordano

#48. 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

#49. All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya

Drake

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama.

Drake

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. The wounds from that time have already become scabs.

Mika Yamamori

#57. Why don't you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can't call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.

Isabel Lopez

#58. The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Dorothy Dix

#59. And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.

Stacie Hammond

#60. I rein myself in. I'm already breaking up with the guy. I don't have to ruin his favorite movie.

Philip Siegel

#61. He'd lost the only part of his life that made it worth living because of a couple random fucks. How ridiculous.

Santino Hassell

#62. It's what everyone wants when they're breaking someone's heart: to be rid of the person and yet absolved of guilt, of the unhappiness they've caused. They want their rationalizations heard and gulped up by the wronged, and they want their victims to go away, peacefully. To never be haunted again.

Ibi Kaslik

#63. Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

Hermann Hesse

#64. At the end of all things, why do lovers break up?

Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist.

Timothy Joshua

#65. The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

David J. Wolpe

#66. Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.

Timothy Long

#67. And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

Drake

#68. Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#69. 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

#70. 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

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

Selena Gomez

#72. I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#73. Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.

Coco J. Ginger

#74. If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#75. The boy she'd once loved was gone, and she'd accept it. But even if she didn't want Eric back, he'd hurt her. He was the enemy, and the Universal Girl Code stipulated friends should band together in hating the ****** till death.

Melissa Landers

#76. 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

#77. He's cheap and cheesy, coz he loves you. If you want to know how 'expensive' he has been, just check his inbox, see how may gals he disappointed for you.

K. Hari Kumar

#78. We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.

Catherine Lacey

#79. The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.

Carroll Bryant

#80. Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives ...

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#81. Luke is the sort of boy Taylor Swift could at least three songs out of.

Beth Garrod

#82. There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged.

Daniel Handler

#83. You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Karen Quan

#84. I know that asshole you were with in college
"
"Can we leave that asshole out of it?"
Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.

Josh Lanyon

#85. Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.

Daniel Handler

#86. Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.

David Bosch

#87. But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

Gayle Forman

#88. I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that I was Ed Slaterton's girlfriend, loved by you for like ten secs, and who cares, so what, and not anymore so how embarrassing for me.

Daniel Handler

#89. She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy

Keith Urban

#90. Of all the places you could go, I just thought you'd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know

Drake

#91. Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

Joan Rivers

#92. Don't complain or blame to others, you are the one who selected wrong person,now get up ,wipe your tears and correct your statistics and now make a wiser choice. Learn to judge people, learn from your master(god,parents,teacher,best friend).

Nikhil Yadav

#93. In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

Anthony Powell

#94. It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.

Crystal Woods

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

Cindy Chupack

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.

James Baldwin

#99. In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.

Mehek Bassi

#100. I pour another drink and wash the taste of dashed dreams from the back of my tongue. I feel half-dead, but my broken heart somehow still beats. What a stubborn, senseless organ, to keep going when all hope and happiness are lost.

Julie Johnson