quotes about Breakup
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.
-- A.S. King -
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
-- Adam Brody -
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
-- Adele -
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I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.
-- Adele -
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
-- Adele -
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 -
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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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 LukashenkoSource : "Belarus President Seeks to Deploy Russia Missiles" by Alan Cullison, www.wsj.com. November 14, 2008.
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You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.
-- Alissa Nutting -
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
-- Ally Condie -
The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over.
-- Alyssa Milano -
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It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.
-- Amanda SeyfriedSource : "Amanda Seyfried on why she likes nothing more than a dirty joke". www.mirror.co.uk. April 8, 2011.
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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 AcimanSource : André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.
-- Andy Rooney -
[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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Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
-- Anne Hathaway -
In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.
-- Armistead Maupin -
I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.
-- Ashley Greene -
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
-- Barry Eichengreen -
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
-- Bette Davis -
I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
-- Bette Midler -
I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.
-- Brittany Murphy -
After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
-- Brittany Murphy -
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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
-- Catherine Helen SpenceSource : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.40, Wakefield Press
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A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
-- Cher -
When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.
-- Christine Lakin -
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Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.
-- Cindy Chupack -
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
-- D. H. LawrenceSource : D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”
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Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.
-- David Bosch -
We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.
-- David ByrneSource : David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books
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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 -
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
-- Dennis QuaidSource : "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.
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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 MengestuSource : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin
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None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
-- Djuna BarnesSource : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.147, New Directions Publishing
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It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
-- Don Henley -
You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?
-- Drake -
Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.
-- Drake -
It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.
-- Drake -
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Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.
-- Drake -
Face it. There's not going to be a happy ending... at least not with this hero. So don't go mooning around thinking that your breakup is only the crisis before the big romantic scene, because I'm here to tell you that it's not. When you are dumped, you are dumped, and the guy isn't going to change his mind and realize that suddenly he loves you instead of that girl he's flirting with in lunchroom, now that he's free.
-- E. Lockhart -
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
I don't love you anymore ... It comes down to that, I think.
-- Elizabeth Cox -
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Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.
-- Enver Aysever -
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
-- Estelle -
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
-- Fanny CrosbySource : Fanny Crosby (1915). “Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-four Years”
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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 -
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
-- George Henry BorrowSource : George Henry Borrow (1852). “Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest”, p.200
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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- George Whyte-MelvilleSource : George John Whyte-Melville (1875). “Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor”, p.154
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The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.
-- Greg Behrendt -
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Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.
-- Greg Behrendt -
We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
-- Ha Jin -
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
-- Hannah Simone -
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
-- Hans Selye -
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
-- Hermann Hesse -
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 -
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 -
Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.
-- Jack W. Hayford -
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Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.
-- Jamie McGuire -
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
-- Jean de La FontaineSource : Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation
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It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.
-- Jennifer Lopez -
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 -
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You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'
-- Jenny McCarthy -
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 ShepardSource : W. Kinsella, Jim Shepard, Steven Millhauser, Max Apple (2016). “Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature”, p.336, Tachyon Publications
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Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.
-- Joan Rivers -
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
-- John Dryden -
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
-- Johnny Cash -
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 -
I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
-- Kara DioGuardi -
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Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.
-- Katie Holmes -
Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
-- Kendrick Lamar -
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
-- Kris AllenSource : "Five Questions with Kris Allen". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.
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I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.
-- Kristan Higgins -
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You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.
-- Kristan Higgins -
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 JohnsonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 DaveSource : Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin
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Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.
-- Linda Howard -
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
-- Lucinda Williams -
Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry with me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves me or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.
-- Lydia Davis -
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I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'
-- Mara Wilson -
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
-- Marian Keyes -
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.
-- Mario MontiSource : "'A Front Line Between North and South'". Interview with Fiona Ehlers and Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 06, 2012.
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Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
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Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.
-- Michael Fassbender -
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 HamidSource : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 -
This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more walking around with my head down, I'm so over being blue crying over you.
-- Ne-Yo -
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Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.
-- Nick Hornby -
You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me
-- Nicki Minaj -
I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small
-- Nicki Minaj -
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Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.
-- Nicki Minaj -
Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
-- Nicki Minaj -
I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told
-- Nicki MinajSource : Song: Fire Burns, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Deluxe Edition, 2012
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You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay
-- Nicki Minaj -