Top Breakup Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Breakup quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Nicki Minaj
I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Breakup
Image of Ha Jin
We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
- Ha Jin
Collection: Breakup
Image of Tom Perrotta
Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.
- Tom Perrotta
Collection: Breakup
Image of Linda Wisdom
A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .
- Linda Wisdom
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Image of André Aciman
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.
- André Aciman
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Image of Hans Selye
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
- Hans Selye
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Image of Rumer Willis
Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of days. You wake up to mascara caked on your face and empty ice cream cartons everywhere, and your iTunes has, like, four new really bad romantic comedies you've rented. And your friends are texting you, and for three days you're in this black hole.
- Rumer Willis
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Image of Laura Dave
That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.
- Laura Dave
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Image of David Bosch
Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.
- David Bosch
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Image of Gabor Mate
Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.
- Gabor Mate
Collection: Breakup
Image of Carmel Myers
If you can't help it, don't think about it
- Carmel Myers
Collection: Breakup
Image of Dinaw Mengestu
You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.
- Dinaw Mengestu
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Image of Irene Nemirovsky
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.
- Irene Nemirovsky
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Image of Norris Church Mailer
The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.
- Norris Church Mailer
Collection: Breakup
Image of Jim Shepard
She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.
- Jim Shepard
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Image of Luke Wilson
To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.
- Luke Wilson
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Image of Cindy Chupack
Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.
- Cindy Chupack
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Image of Wade Horn
The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.
- Wade Horn
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Image of Elizabeth Cox
I don't love you anymore ... It comes down to that, I think.
- Elizabeth Cox
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Image of Sabrina
There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.
- Sabrina
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Image of Enver Aysever
Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.
- Enver Aysever
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Image of Kenneth Arrow
The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this is showing up in productivity. I think part of the reason, and I can't prove this, we're seeing a decline in some places is the breakup of the family, which is partly the result of an extreme form of individualism.
- Kenneth Arrow
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Image of Alexander Lukashenko
I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union
- Alexander Lukashenko
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Image of Angie Everhart
[Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.
- Angie Everhart
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Image of Dorothy Dix
The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
- Dorothy Dix
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Image of Stephen Dunn
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
- Stephen Dunn
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Image of David Popenoe
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.
- David Popenoe
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Image of Timothy Long
Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.
- Timothy Long
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Image of Tim Wu
The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.
- Tim Wu
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Image of Tim Wu
The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.
- Tim Wu
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Image of Selena Gomez
I may not be perfect, but i'm always me
- Selena Gomez
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Image of Matthew Healy
There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart from. You kind of build all of these nostalgias and sort of antiquated memories in your mind, and when you're at the point during the breakup, you realise, "you know what, it actually takes a bit more than all this bullshit".
- Matthew Healy
Collection: Breakup
Image of Josh Hopkins
I'll turn on the TV or look at a magazine, and it's like, 'Who is this person?' And you find out they are from '16 and Pregnant,' and I'm like, 'Really? They're celebrities now?' You read about them on the news having fights and breakups, and I think, 'Well, of course.
- Josh Hopkins
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Image of Mohsin Hamid
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.
- Mohsin Hamid
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Image of Amy Chan
I've learned that each time you go through a breakup, the pain isn't any more or less intense or hard, but the way you process and get back up can be different when you learn the tools to get yourself back to equilibrium. There are so many lessons that can be learned during times of heartbreak, and there's an opportunity to grow and become more emotionally healthy.
- Amy Chan
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Image of Amy Chan
The "natural" instincts when someone is going through a breakup are counterintuitive to healing. For instance, many people stop eating or eat very unhealthy, and if your body is not fed the necessary nutrients during this trying time, it's extremely difficult for you to heal emotionally. So, first things first, force yourself to eat, even if that entails drinking green smoothies so you're getting nutrients in your body.
- Amy Chan
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Image of Amy Chan
What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.
- Amy Chan
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Image of Annie Baker
Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wondering if you shouldn't have quit the shitty job and then getting a new shitty job that you get fired off of after six weeks, it's all so good for your writing.
- Annie Baker
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Image of Lady Bird Johnson
Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
- Lady Bird Johnson
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Image of Michael Benjamin Lerner
I never really got into any records purely thinking of them as a breakup record. I mean, honestly, for me, listening to a breakup record whilst dealing with one seems counterproductive!
- Michael Benjamin Lerner
Collection: Breakup
Image of Abdellatif Kechiche
[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].
- Abdellatif Kechiche
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Image of Mandy Stadtmiller
I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.
- Mandy Stadtmiller
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Image of Nicole Atkins
It was three breakups going on at the same time. It was breaking up with my band, and my boyfriend, and right after that, my record label. I was arguing a lot with my record label during that whole time, so maybe they all affected each other. This record, Mondo Amore, came out of a time that was really heartbreaking and confusing, and that's why I switched the sound up a lot, to make it sound a little bit grittier and more raw.
- Nicole Atkins
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Image of Nicole Atkins
A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing, because it made me feel like I was forcing myself to be more mature and grow up a little bit. It's not putting the blame on anybody, it's accepting responsibility just as much as the other person.
- Nicole Atkins
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Image of John Updike
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.
- John Updike
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Image of Veronica Roth
Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.
- Veronica Roth
Collection: Breakup
Image of William Shakespeare
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Breakup
Image of Nicki Minaj
You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Breakup
Image of Nicki Minaj
I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Breakup
Image of Nicki Minaj
I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Breakup