166 Broken Up Quotes

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Famous Broken Up Quotes

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. — Dennis Quaid

My heart shattered. My world shattered - Richelle Mead

My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead

What can be broken, should be broken. - Dmitry Pisarev

What can be broken, should be broken. — Dmitry Pisarev

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew. — Lauren DeStefano

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. — Bonnie Tyler

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. - Anne Sexton

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. — Anne Sexton

The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them. — Salman Rushdie

The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — Eduardo C. Corral

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. — Unknown

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins

We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again. — Ian Curtis

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces. — Jamie Ford

Short Broken Up Quotes

  • Leave my loneliness unbroken — Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together — Colleen Hoover
  • I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me. — Ernest Hemingway
  • Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
  • When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg
  • When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. — Clark Gable
  • I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. — Charles Dickens
  • You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole. — LeCrae
  • Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. — Bryant H. McGill
  • Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid

Top 10 Broken Up Quotes

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain

Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. — Ovid

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky - William P. Young

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. — Frank Ocean

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. — Zig Ziglar

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God. — Natalie Grant

Broken Up Image Quotes

Broken up quote If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, tha
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.

Just Broken Up Quotes

For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me! — David Lee Roth

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. — Jim Henson

In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. — Sayo Masuda

Broken up quote One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. — Charles R. Brown

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling. — Matt LeBlanc

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter — Sally Field

Broken up quote When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.

I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there. — Bob Casey, Jr.

When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough. — Ilona Andrews

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi

Heart Broken Up Quotes

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. — Leonard Cohen

God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green

Broken up quote If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things alwa
If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. — Haruki Murakami

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. — Alex Garland

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

Broken up quote Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day
Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. — Nev Schulman

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country. — Emmylou Harris

Picking Up The Broken Pieces Quotes

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. — Vera Nazarian

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves. — Tarryn Fisher

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time. — Ozzy Osbourne

Broken up quote How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.

What you share about how you've overcome in some area in life, it helps someone else believe that they can make it through whatever situation. You can give them some insight into how to pick up the pieces from whatever's been broken. — Shonlock

How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same. — Terry Tempest Williams

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken. — Dan Abnett

Broke Up Quotes

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. — Sylvester Stallone

When your ex says ‘You’ll never find anyone like me’. Say ‘that’s the point’. — Drake

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams. — Beyonce Knowles

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. - Marilyn French

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Marilyn French

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. - Frank Bruno

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. — Jennifer Garner

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week. - Bon Scott

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week. — Bon Scott

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger - Sara Evans

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger — Sara Evans

Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff. — Dave Ramsey

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse. — Bob Uecker

Break Up Quotes

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. — Konstantin Stanislavisky

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major. - Kevin Gates

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major. — Kevin Gates

Broken up quote An unbending tree is easily broken.
An unbending tree is easily broken.

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons. — Saddam Hussein

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. — Constantin Stanislavski

No more tears now; I will think about revenge. - Mary, Queen of Scots

No more tears now; I will think about revenge. — Mary, Queen of Scots

Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces. - Drake

Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces. — Drake

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always. — Bernadette Soubirous

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. — Augusten Burroughs

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984. — Thurgood Marshall

Breakup Quotes

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins

Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore. — Drake

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. — D. H. Lawrence

I may not be perfect, but i'm always me — Selena Gomez

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the Russians have watched anxiously as NATO has crept steadily closer, incorporating countries that Russia claims it was promised would not be joining. — Tim Marshall

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. - Drake

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. - Virgil

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. — Virgil

Broken Heart Quotes

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. - Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. — Chogyam Trungpa

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The heart will break, but broken live on. - Lord Byron

The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron

I long for You so much I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks That are high in the mountains That I know are years old. I long for You so much I have even begun to travel Where I have never been before. — Hafez

Broken Love Quotes

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga

I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic

You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. — Bob Marley

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through. — Andrea Gibson

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken. — Amy Poehler

Broken Relationship Quotes

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks

Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that. — Johnny Depp

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. — Jodi Picoult

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely. — Daniel Libeskind

The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature. — Rosemary Radford Ruether

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

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More Broken Up Quotes

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. — C. S. Lewis

God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God. — Henry Allen Ironside

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up. — Ray Romano

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. — Rene Crevel

The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us. — Mike Yaconelli

Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life. — Mike Yaconelli

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. — Graham Nelson

It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss. — Cornell Woolrich

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. — Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. — Margaret Mitchell

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. — Helen Clark

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning. — Arundhati Roy

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it. — Joseph Campbell

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. — Alanis Morissette

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. — Poppy Delevingne

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant. — Buddha

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly. — Mike Yaconelli

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'. — Harry Crews

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