Top 25 Heartbreak Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The heart was made to be broken.”

— Oscar Wilde

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2. “A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”

— Taylor Swift

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3. “My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.”

— Paulo Coelho

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4. “There’s never a right time to say goodbye.”

— Chris Brown

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Goodbye Quotes

5. “I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Moving On Quotes

6. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens

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7. “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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8. “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

— Oswald Chambers

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9. “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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10. “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

— William Shakespeare

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11. “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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12. “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart – hearts are made to be broken – but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Hurt Quotes

13. “Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.”

— Drake

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14. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

— William Shakespeare

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15. “If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Toxic People Quotes

16. “I can't set my hopes too high, because every hello ends with a goodbye.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Loss Quotes, Sadness Quotes

17. “I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.”

— Frank Ocean

Also featured in: Desire Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Longing Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her

18. “If I never see you again, I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges, and in centers, centers of what I am, of what remains.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Longing Quotes, Hurt Quotes

19. “Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart...”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Loneliness Quotes

20. “Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.”

— Colleen Hoover

Also featured in: Romantic Quotes, You Are Loved Quotes, Love Hurts Quotes

21. “You told me you were happier with her but you want me to stay.”

— Shawn Mendes

22. “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

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23. “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

— Arthur Golden

Also featured in: Depression Quotes, Grief Quotes

24. “I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

— Pablo Neruda

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25. “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.”

— Leonard Cohen

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26. “Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.”

— C. S. Lewis

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27. “Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.”

— Christina Aguilera

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