81 Broken Heart Quotes to Heal and Find Strength After Heartbreak


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Heartbreak, a universal experience, often feels like the end of the world. The loss of a loved one can leave us feeling shattered, alone, and adrift. It's a painful process, filled with a range of emotions from sadness and anger to despair and longing. Yet, within this darkness, there lies a pat h to healing and growth.

Find solace and strength in these words, offering a gentle reminder that you're not alone in your heartbreak and that healing is possible.

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can’t make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

April Mae

It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Being able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely. Deepika Padukone

It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Being able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

Deepika Padukone

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Steve Maraboli

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

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

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.

Heartbroken Sad Quotes

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Stephen King

I wonder what it’s like to be the one with no heart, and what you do with the time I spend falling apart.

Jessica Katoff

I will never regret you or say I wish I’d never met you. Because once upon a time you were exactly what I needed.

Bob Marley

Each attempt to heal only rips the wound wider, hollowing out the parts of me that once felt whole.

The pain of a broken heart is the quietest kind of suffering, yet it tears through your soul with every unspoken word.

A broken heart is like a cracked mirror, reflecting fragments of a life that can never be whole again.

A broken heart is like a cracked mirror, reflecting fragments of a life that can never be whole again.

In a crowded room, I still feel alone, haunted by the memory of what we used to be.

Even in the darkest night, there’s a flicker of hope that one day, the pieces of my broken heart will fit together again.

This journey of healing is revealing the strength I always had but never needed to discover until now.

Letting go is hard, but holding on to something that’s gone is harder.

Short Heartbroken Quotes

My heart is so tired.

Marcus Zuzakf

The heart was made to be broken. Oscar Wilde

The heart was made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

Your heart will repair itself.

Broken hearts still see the beauty.

Pain is temporary; hope is eternal.

Sorrow shows we cared.

Sadness slows down time.

ind strength in your scars.

Broken Relationship Quotes

You don’t need closure. You just need to give yourself permission to move on. Steve Harvey

The way they leave tells you everything. Rupi Kaur

The way they leave tells you everything.

Rupi Kaur

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them… but still move on without them.

Mandy Hale

No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes the person you fought hardest for is the one who leaves you most defeated.

You’re not difficult to love. They were just not capable of loving you.

It hurts that someone made you think you were too much when all you did was care too deeply.

You can’t heal in the arms that shattered you.

Don’t wait for someone to apologize for wounds they never cared to see.

You tried so hard to be enough for them that you forgot you were always enough for yourself.

You built a home in their heart, but they left you out in the cold.

You built a home in their heart, but they left you out in the cold.

Broken Life Quotes

No matter how hard your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

Faraaz Kazi

The hardest part is pretending you're okay when you're silently falling apart.

Some days, the weight of life is so heavy that even breathing feels like a battle.

Sometimes, the only way to heal is to let the tears wash away the pain of a broken life.

It's okay if all you did today was hold yourself together. You haven't done that since long.

Sometimes, the hardest part of life falling apart is admitting that you're not okay.

When life is in ruins, allow yourself to cry. It‘s a way of cleansing the heart and preparing for a fresh start.

When life is in ruins, allow yourself to cry. It's a way of cleansing the heart and preparing for a fresh start.

Every day is a new opportunity to become a better version of yourself and shape your own destiny.

Sometimes, life falling apart gives you a new perspective on what truly matters.

When everything seems to disintegrate, it’s often because change is needed to realign your path.

Broken Heart Caption

Sometimes, losing them is finding yourself.

The storm will pass.

The storm will pass.

Better things come to those who heal.

Why do goodbyes feel so incomplete?

Shattered pieces of a heart tell the most honest stories.

The heart may be bruised, but it will heal stronger.

A broken heart is just a chapter, not the whole story.

Trying to mend the pieces, but they don't fit anymore.

Where the pain is gentle but constant.

Broken Heart Shayari in English

Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa

aa phir se mujhe chhod ke jaane ke liye aa

Ahmad Faraz

Translation: Even if it's just for causing me pain, come back;
Come back, if only to leave me once again.

Bad kismati ko ye bhi gavara na ho saka

ham jis pe mar mite vo hamara na ho saka

Shakeeb Jalali

Translation: Even my bad luck couldn’t bear this,
The one I gave my life for could never be mine.

Zamane bhar ka gham ya ik tira gham

ye gham hoga to kitne gham na honge

Hafeez Hoshiarpuri

Translation: The sorrows of the whole world or just the sorrow of losing you,
If I bear this sorrow, many others will not even matter.

Tere hi gham me mar gae sad shukr

Akhir ik din to hamko marna tha

Nizam Rampuri

Translation: I died in your sorrow, thanks be to God,
After all, one day I had to die.

Hum ne seene se lagaya dil na apna ban saka

Muskurakar tumne dekha dil tumhara ho gaya

Jigar Muradabadi

Translation: I held my heart close, yet it couldn't become mine,
But when you smiled at it, it became yours instantly.

Kisi ki tum ho kisi ka khuda hai nasib main

Mere nasib main tum bhi nahi, khuda bhi nahi

Akhtar Saeed Khan

Translation: You belong to someone, someone else has God in their destiny
In my destiny, I have neither you nor God.

Ishq ne 'ġhālib' nikamma kar diya

Varna ham bhi aadmi the kaam ke

Mirza Ghalib

Translation: Love has rendered Ghalib useless,
Otherwise, I too was a man of worth.

Sirf uske hoth kagaz pe bana deta hu mai

khud bana leti hai hoto par hasi apni jagah

Anwar Shaoor

Translation: I only make her lips appear on paper,
She creates her own smile on her lips.

Tum mujhe chor ke jaoke toh mar jaunga

Yu karo jaane se pehle mujhe pagal kar do

Bashir Badr

Translation: If you leave me, I will die.

So do this: before you leave, drive me insane.

Bechain is qadar tha ki soya nahi rath bhar
Palkon se likh raha tha tira naam chand par

Translation: I was so restless that I couldn't sleep the whole night.
With my eyelashes, I was writing your name on the moon.

Khushiyon ki talash me dil hamesha gumsum rehta hai|
Aansu bhi kahaniyon ki tarah bewajah lagte hai

Translation: In search of happiness, the heart always remains silent
Even tears, like stories, seem without reason.

Dil-e-nadaan tujhe hua kya hai,
Aakhir iss dard ki dawa kya hai!

Translation: O naive heart, what has happened to you?
After all, what is the cure for this pain?

Moving On Quotes

In three words I can sum up everything I‘ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

Jan Glidewell

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

Violeta Parra

I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.

H. C. Paye

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken.

Shakieb Orgunwall

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

Nicholas Sparks

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Leo Buscaglia

You've got to value yourself and know that you're worth everything. And until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Jennifer Lopez

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.

Margaret George

Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.

Rita Stradling

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