201+ Broken Heart Quotes to Heal and Move On

Heartbreak is an inevitable part of life, a painful yet transformative experience that teaches us resilience, self-love, and strength. Whether it’s the end of a romantic relationship, the loss of a loved one, or a deep betrayal, a broken heart can leave emotional scars that take time to heal.

Words have the power to soothe, inspire, and offer comfort during difficult times. In this collection, we bring you 201+ broken heart quotes to help you navigate the pain and find hope in the process of healing.

Heartache and Healing: Embracing the Pain

• “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” – Margaret George
• “The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner
• “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” – Henny Youngman
• “Sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
• “The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.” – Shakieb Orgunwall
• “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” – Bess Myerson
• “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum
• “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.” – Javan
• “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
• “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
• “Sometimes we survive by forgetting.” – Jodi Picoult
• “You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.” – Isabel Gillies
• “If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.” – Unknown
• “Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.” – Unknown
• “When you are standing in the storm, it seems like it will never end. But the rain does stop eventually.” – Unknown
• “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
• “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” – Leonardo da Vinci
• “What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” – Haruki Murakami

Letting Go and Moving Forward

• “Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale
• “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart.” – C. JoyBell C.
• “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “Don’t let the heart that didn’t love you, keep you from the one that will.” – Unknown
• “Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.” – Unknown
• “A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” – T.E. Kalem
• “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Unknown
• “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” – Jojo Moyes
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “You were never meant to settle for mediocrity.” – Unknown
• “A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize that He saved you from the wrong one.” – Unknown
• “Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, and heartbreak makes you wiser.” – Unknown
• “Scars show us where we have been, but they do not dictate where we are going.” – David Rossi
• “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” – Victoria Holt
• “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
• “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” – George Chakiris
• “Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown
• “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
• “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
• “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

Lost Love and Unfinished Stories

• “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
• “I have loved and I have lost, and I’m starting to believe it’s okay.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.” – Fulton J. Sheen
• “The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
• “A love lost is not the end of your story but the beginning of a new one.” – Unknown
• “No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” – Unknown
• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
• “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes we just have to let go of what we thought was meant to be.” – Unknown
• “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
• “Sometimes, we let go simply because we need to remember how to hold on to ourselves.” – Unknown
• “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
• “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran
• “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” – Missy Altijd
• “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “A broken heart is just proof that you loved deeply.” – Unknown
• “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
• “Time doesn’t heal all wounds, it just gives you the tools to manage them.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, fail in order to know, and lose in order to gain.” – Unknown

Heartbreak and Self-Discovery

• “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
• “Sometimes a heartbreak is a blessing in disguise.” – Unknown
• “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and wait for rain.” – Andrea Gibson
• “The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
• “You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.” – Douglas Booth
• “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo
• “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
• “No matter how much it hurts, you have to hold your head up and keep going.” – Unknown
• “Your heart is the most fragile yet strongest thing you have.” – Unknown
• “You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Unknown
• “Don’t waste your time looking back at what you lost. Move on, life is not meant to be traveled backward.” – Unknown
• “You can’t force someone to love you. You can only be someone worth loving.” – Unknown
• “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” – Carlos Santana
• “Sometimes we must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
• “One day, you’ll be at peace with the love you gave and the love you didn’t receive.” – Unknown
• “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Unknown
• “Hearts will break, but broken lives don’t have to.” – Unknown
• “One of the hardest things in life is deciding whether to walk away or try harder.” – Unknown
• “One day, someone will look at you like you are the best thing in the world.” – Unknown
• “Keep your head high and your heart open. Better things are coming your way.” – Unknown

Strength in Heartache

• “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
• “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Broken hearts hurt but they will make you strong.” – Unknown
• “When something bad happens, you have three choices: let it define you, destroy you, or strengthen you.” – Unknown
• “Scars remind us of where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we’re going.” – David Rossi
• “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• “You don’t die from a broken heart – you only wish you did.” – Unknown
• “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.” – Unknown
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “One day, you’ll look back and realize how strong you really were.” – Unknown
• “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
• “Everything you go through grows you.” – Unknown
• “Pain shapes a warrior’s heart.” – Unknown
• “A strong soul shines after every storm.” – Unknown
• “What didn’t break you, made you stronger.” – Unknown
• “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.” – Haruki Murakami
• “A heartbreak is just another lesson in strength.” – Unknown
• “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts
• “Your heartbreak is just another chapter, not the whole story.” – Unknown
• “You will not always feel this way. The pain is temporary, but your strength is permanent.” – Unknown

Learning to Love Again

• “Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.” – Unknown
• “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
• “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
• “Let your past make you better, not bitter.” – Unknown
• “A new love is the best cure for an old love.” – Unknown
• “You were meant for love, don’t let one heartbreak convince you otherwise.” – Unknown
• “Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.” – Unknown
• “It is not the end of the world, just the end of a chapter.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes we need to be broken before we can be rebuilt into something stronger.” – Unknown
• “Every next level of your life will demand a different version of you.” – Unknown
• “The best is yet to come. Keep believing in love.” – Unknown
• “Your heart was meant to love again.” – Unknown
• “The wounds of love heal only with love.” – Unknown
• “Time heals nothing unless you move along with it.” – Unknown
• “Don’t let one person’s inability to love you define your worth.” – Unknown
• “Love again, not because you need to, but because you want to.” – Unknown
• “No love is ever wasted. It just teaches you what you truly deserve.” – Unknown
• “A healed heart loves more deeply than a whole one ever could.” – Unknown
• “Love didn’t break you, the wrong person did. Love will heal you.” – Unknown
• “One day, love will find you when you least expect it.” – Unknown

The Pain of Betrayal and Lost Trust

• “The worst feeling is not being lonely, but being forgotten by someone you can’t forget.” – Unknown
• “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” – Arthur Miller
• “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” – Unknown
• “A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from an enemy.” – Unknown
• “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.” – Unknown
• “The knife in my back wasn’t just steel, it was the weight of your lies.” – Unknown
• “Some people are like pennies—two-faced and worthless.” – Unknown
• “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person you thought would never hurt you.” – Unknown
• “You taught me to trust you, and then you betrayed that trust.” – Unknown
• “It’s funny how the people who claim they love you the most are the same ones who hurt you the worst.” – Unknown
• “The worst kind of pain is when your heart cries and nobody can hear the sound.” – Unknown
• “I’m not mad that you lied to me, I’m mad that I believed you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “A broken trust is like a shattered mirror—impossible to put back together without seeing the cracks.” – Unknown
• “The worst thing about betrayal is that it always comes from someone you trusted.” – Unknown
• “Some wounds never show on the body, but they are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – Unknown
• “You never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Once someone has broken your trust, it will never be the same again.” – Unknown
• “People change, memories don’t.” – Unknown
• “Betrayal changes everything—it turns love into pain and trust into doubt.” – Unknown

Hope and Healing After Heartbreak

• “It’s always darkest before the dawn.” – Thomas Fuller
• “One day, your heart will smile again.” – Unknown
• “A heartbreak is just a bend in the road, not the end of the journey.” – Unknown
• “You are allowed to be broken, but you are not allowed to stay that way.” – Unknown
• “The sun will rise again, and so will you.” – Unknown
• “You don’t find happiness, you create it.” – Unknown
• “Your past doesn’t define you, your strength does.” – Unknown
• “Healing is not about forgetting; it’s about learning and growing.” – Unknown
• “The scars on your heart are just reminders of how far you’ve come.” – Unknown
• “It hurts now, but one day it will just be another story to tell.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes, we have to let go of what’s killing us, even if it’s killing us to let go.” – Unknown
• “You were not made to be broken; you were made to be reborn.” – Unknown
• “There is hope even in the most shattered heart.” – Unknown
• “Every storm runs out of rain eventually.” – Maya Angelou
• “Healing takes time, but you will love again.” – Unknown
• “Let your heartbreak be the fuel for your comeback.” – Unknown
• “What’s coming is better than what’s gone.” – Unknown
• “Time will heal, and your heart will be whole again.” – Unknown
• “One day, you will laugh at what once made you cry.” – Unknown
• “You survived, and that’s the most powerful thing of all.” – Unknown

Moving On and Letting Go

• “The only way to move forward is to stop looking back.” – Unknown
• “Holding on is believing there’s a past; letting go is knowing there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
• “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown
• “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
• “Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a chance to build something better this time.” – Unknown
• “It’s time to close the book on that chapter and start a new one.” – Unknown
• “You owe it to yourself to walk away from what no longer serves you.” – Unknown
• “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.” – Unknown
• “You can’t move forward while holding onto the pain of yesterday.” – Unknown
• “Some things break your heart but fix your vision.” – Unknown
• “Let go of the illusion that it could have been any different.” – Unknown
• “When you let go, you create space for something better to enter.” – Unknown
• “Stop chasing after people who aren’t meant to be in your life.” – Unknown
• “The pain of letting go is far less than the pain of holding on to something that’s already gone.” – Unknown
• “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
• “Your heart knows when it’s time to move on.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes walking away is the best decision you will ever make.” – Unknown
• “Let go, not because you want to, but because you have to.” – Unknown
• “You are not losing love, you are making space for something real.” – Unknown

Finding Yourself After Heartbreak

• “Losing someone you love is hard, but losing yourself in the process is even harder.” – Unknown
• “A heartbreak is not the end; it’s the start of rediscovering yourself.” – Unknown
• “This is your time to heal, grow, and become the person you were meant to be.” – Unknown
• “You don’t need someone to complete you. You are already whole.” – Unknown
• “Don’t let a broken heart make you forget who you are.” – Unknown
• “You are stronger than you think, and this pain will only make you wiser.” – Unknown
• “Self-love is the greatest love of all.” – Unknown
• “The best revenge is no revenge—move on and find happiness.” – Unknown
• “Your worth is not measured by someone’s inability to see it.” – Unknown
• “A broken heart is an opportunity to rebuild yourself stronger.” – Unknown
• “Never let heartbreak make you feel like you are not enough.” – Unknown
• “Love yourself first, and everything else will fall into place.” – Lucille Ball
• “Sometimes, heartbreak is the wake-up call you needed.” – Unknown
• “Focus on your growth, and love will find you when the time is right.” – Unknown
• “Healing is about rediscovering who you are, not who you lost.” – Unknown
• “The greatest relationship you will ever have is the one with yourself.” – Unknown
• “Be so busy loving yourself that you forget about the pain.” – Unknown
• “Self-worth comes from within, not from who chooses to love you.” – Unknown
• “Your broken heart is not your identity. You are more than your pain.” – Unknown
• “A new version of you is waiting to be discovered after every heartbreak.” – Unknown

Final Thought

Heartbreak is not an ending—it’s a transformation. It forces you to grow, to heal, and to find the strength you never knew you had. Every tear, every lesson, and every moment of pain is shaping you into a better, wiser version of yourself. Trust the journey, embrace the healing, and believe in the love that is still to come.