Reading the poetry, comedy, pain, and wisdom of others has always been a balm to me when I'm in the middle of a challenging life phase, such as heartbreak.
It helps me know I'm not alone. Gives me a new perspective on my situation. Inspires me to feel.
...and most importantly, it gives me HOPE, reminding me that what I'm going through is transitory and normal. That I will come out the other side with refined compassion, hard-won insights, and stronger than before.
Below, I've assembled 17 of my favorite heartbreak quotes. May they serve you in the highest ways, and may something you read be "the thing" you needed to hear today.
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." — Marilyn Monroe
"The heart will break, but broken love on." — Lord Byron
"When you are in love, and you get hurt, it's like a cut — it will heal, but there will always be a scar." — Soo Jie
"And they can't understand, what hurts more — missing the other person, or pretending not to." — Khadija Rupa
"It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." — Ella Harper
"Perhaps someday I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow." — Sylvia Plath
“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.” — Atticus
“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” — Carroll Bryant
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran
"Maybe this is wishful thinking. Probably mindless dreaming, but if we loved again I swear I'd love you right." — Taylor Swift, "Back to December"
“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”― Ranata Suzuki
“My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.” — Pablo Neruda
“Was it hard?" I ask, "letting go?". "Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
― Lisa Schroeder
“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi
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