Top 100 Broken Heart Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

52. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

— Maya Angelou

53. “The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.”

— Francis William Bourdillon

54. “As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”

— Lady Gaga

55. “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

— Cassandra Clare

56. “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

57. “There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

— Charles Bukowski

58. “Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.”

— Bruce Springsteen

59. “Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.”

— Taylor Swift

60. “Don’t cry for a man who’s left you – the next one may fall for your smile.”

— Mae West

61. “I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and I’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.”

— Frida Kahlo

62. “You don’t know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.”

— Nick Vujicic

63. “The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”

— Ernest Hemingway

64. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

— Oscar Wilde

65. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

— Rumi

66. “Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”

— Bruce Lee

67. “Don’t fix what’s not broken.”

— Robert Atkins

68. “Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

69. “Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

— John Steinbeck

70. “To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.”

— Frank Frankfort Moore

71. “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

— Warren Buffett

72. “I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

73. “I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”

— L.M. Montgomery

74. “The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.”

— Caroline Myss

75. “There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

76. “Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.”

— Antonio Porchia

77. “It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

— George Bernard Shaw

78. “Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”

— Homer

79. “The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.”

— Hillary Clinton

80. “Maybe there’s a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.”

— Leonard Cohen

81. “Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”

— Drew Barrymore

82. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

— Mark Twain

83. “Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.”

— Bette Midler

84. “Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”

— Johnny Depp

85. “There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.”

— Pearl S. Buck

86. “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

87. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

— James Baldwin

88. “The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

89. “The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

90. “If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

91. “The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”

— Charlotte Brontë

92. “Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

— James Russell Lowell

93. “It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?”

— George Michael

94. “Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

— Jonathan Swift

95. “It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.”

— Allen Ginsberg

96. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

— Khalil Gibran

97. “You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”

— Rumi

98. “Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.”

— Ernest Hemingway

99. “Though lovers be lost love shall not.”

— Dylan Thomas

100. “The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”

— Dorothy Parker