After Breakup Quotes

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Love, Moving On, Break Up

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Relationship

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9

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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

  Big Pun

  Valentines Day, True Love, Sad Love

  Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Breakup, Book, Class

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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• Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

  Graham Greene

  Break Up, Breakup, Wine

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart

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• Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

  Lenny Santos

  Moving On, Letting Go, Breakup

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• Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

  Lenny Santos

  Letting Go, Moving Up, Holding On

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

  Drake

  Ex Boyfriend, Ex Girlfriend, Broke Up

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• Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Frank Bruno

  I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Meaningful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Meaningful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.

  Winona Ryder

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

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• Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Moving On, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jul 28, 2016

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• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

  Bam Margera

  House, Wrecks, Stuff

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• There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Moving On, Break Up

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• The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to highbrow". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2012.

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• New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

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• 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

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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