25 Strong Quotes For After A Breakup

Breakups SUCK. Sometimes we need just a little extra push to get us to where we need to be. Whether it’s, admittedly, a good, stern, talking to by one of our friends, or just a few simple words on a screen, what everyone needs is different.

When I went through my most recent breakup, I struggled…HARD. It didn’t matter what my friends said. I was stuck in heartache. But, a few of the right words, like the ones below, were all it took to help me start moving forward and realize I was better off.

My Top Ten Favorites

“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” — Robert Holden

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — M. Kathleen Casey

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

“You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.”

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”

“Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength.” — Karen Salmanson

”Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” ― Naeem Callaway

“Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.”

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama

Five Favorites Of My Friends

“Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

“It’s time to let go of it, allowing sadness, but not trying to hold on. Something greater is awaiting, dimensions are there to be discovered. We are past the point of no return now, and gravity is doing its work.”

“If you can love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you can love the right one.”

“You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you” — Nayyirah Waheed

“Being back with your ex is like reheating your Mcdonald’s fries.”

Five Recommended By Males

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” – Walter Anderson

“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber

“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

Five Additional Amazing Quotes

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” – Rita Rudner

“When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward like I was forgetting to do something. My life until that point had pivoted around some form of education, and all of a sudden, it was gone. Homework, classes, running around, and then –bam – nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even mentions it. You just suddenly have a gap and have to decide how to fill it. A break-up is like that gap, only much, much more painful. One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof. And even though I’m not one of those people who has to be in a relationship all the time, I was feeling at a loss.” – Lish McBride

“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.” – Jean-Yves Leloup

“A bad relationship is like standing on broken glass, if you stay you will keep hurting. If you walk away, you will hurt but eventually, you will heal.” ― Autumn Kohler

“If you’re struggling with a broken heart, I hope that at least some of these helped you pick yourself up and begin the long, hard journey to being who you were before your relationship ended. Hell, maybe you’re not supposed to be that person anymore…maybe you’re supposed to be someone even better.”

Whoever that person is…let them shine.