Sad Break Up Love Quotes

The heart was made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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

Dennis Quaid

Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

"Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

LeBron James

Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

Usher

Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

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

Jim Henson

Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Justin Timberlake

Moving On, Break Up, Sympathy

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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forster

Break Up, Letting Go, Breakup

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

Saint Augustine

Love, Smile, Break Up

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Funny, Life

In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Love, Inspirational, Life

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

Love, Relationship, Smile

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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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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They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

Drake

Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

Song: July

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Selena Gomez

Breakup, May Not Be Perfect, I May Not Be

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Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

Maya Angelou

Sad Love, Hurt, Realizing

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Jean Baudrillard

Love, Life, Break Up

Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.153, Verso

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Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

Melisa Cantiveros

Love, Giving Up, Loss

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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Nicole Kidman

Break Up, Broken Heart, Forgiveness

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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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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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They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love, Sad, I Miss You

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