Breaking up is hard to do, cue all the weepy heartbreak songs and especially those country heartbreak songs! To help you recover and survive the healing journey (which can take months!), we've rounded up 70 broken heart quotes to lift your spirits and bring comfort to your healing heart.
Ending a relationship can feel like a major loss when there is a strong emotional attachment. You may feel empty and broken, even suffering a slight loss of identity but scroll through our favorite self-love quotes or quotes about happiness to get you through this rough patch. Take the time that you need to process it all while accepting encouragement and support. Seek out more quality time with friends and family and know that brighter days lie ahead.
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"A slow healing heart dying to mend Longin' for love, lonely again But when the spirit is broken and the memories start Nothing moves slower than a slow healing heart"
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Megan Moroney
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"God bless the girls Who bring home the wine When you need a friend, no, they don't think twice They let you go on for the ten-thousandth time And tell the same stories about the same guy They're easy to keep And harder to find God bless thе girls And thank God for mine"
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Psalm 34:18
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"The lord is close to the broken hearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
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Alysha Speer
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"Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget."
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Henry David Thoreau
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
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Henry David Thoreau
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
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Alysha Speer
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"Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget."
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Psalm 34:18
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“The lord is close to the broken hearted, and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
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Dolly Parton
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“A slow healing heart dying to mend
Longin' for love, lonely again
But when the spirit is broken and the memories start
Nothing moves slower than a slow healing heart.”
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Megan Moroney
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“God bless the girls Who bring home the wine
When you need a friend, no, they don't think twice
They let you go on for the ten-thousandth time
And tell the same stories about the same guy
They're easy to keep
And harder to find
God bless thе girls
And thank God for mine.”
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Soo Jie
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"When you are in love, and you get hurt, it's like a cut — it will heal, but there will always be a scar."
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Steve Maraboli
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“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
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Stephen King
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“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
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Katie MacAlister
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“My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.”
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Shannon L. Alder
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“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, ‘I want to know why!’”
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Charles Dickens
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“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
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Khadija Rupa
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“But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.”
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Kate Winslet
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“I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.”
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L.M. Montgomery
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“I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”
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Martha Gellhorn
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“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.”