After Breakup Quotes:

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

- Jean Plaidy

topic: Life, Happiness, Break Up, Regret Nothing, Good Experiences

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

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Breakup, Moving On After Breakup, After Break Up

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Wisdom, Job Opportunities

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

- Washington Irving

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Love And Heartbreak, Purifying

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

source: Willie Morris (1970). “North toward home”, Yoknapatawpha Pr

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Darkness To Light, Light And Dark

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Wisdom And Experience, Moving On After Breakup

The heart was made to be broken.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart, Irish Author, My Heart Is Broken

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Break Up, Beautiful, Breakup, Inspirational Moving On, Wrong Person

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Sorry, Rain, Heart, Moving On After Breakup, Our Condolences

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

- John Green

topic: Moving On, Break Up, I Miss You, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

topic: Friendship, Break Up, Heartbreak, Mending A Broken Heart, Love And Heartbreak

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

topic: Love, Life, Break Up, Hurting Him, Back Together

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

- Dennis Quaid

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

topic: Love, Break Up, Breakup, Break Your Heart, Moving On After Breakup

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

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Breakup, Moving On After Breakup, Broken Hearted

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

- Drake

topic: Life, Moving On, Break Up, Moving On After Breakup, Broken Hearted

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Break Up, Breakup, Moving On After Breakup, Eleven Minutes

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "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

topic: Letting Go, Inspirational Life, Sleep, Time To Move On, Forward In Life

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

- Sarah Mlynowski

topic: Break Up, Breakup, Mean, Moving On After Breakup, Relationships Ending

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

- Justin Timberlake

topic: Moving On, Bridges, Rivers, Forward In Life, Mending A Broken Heart

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Motivational, Break Up, Breakup, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Failure

It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

- Kristin Cavallari

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Girl, Broken Hearted, After Break Up

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

topic: Breakup, Book, Class, After Breakup, Breakups And Moving On

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

topic: Moving On, Letting Go, Holding On, Inspirational Moving On, Moving On After Breakup

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

- Graham Greene

source: GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

topic: Break Up, Breakup, Wine, After Breakup, Sad Break Up Love

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

- Big Pun

topic: Regret, Lost, Loved And Lost, Humorous Valentine, St Valentine

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Moving On After Breakup, Surrender To Love

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

- Golda Meir

topic: Love, Moving On, Break Up, Open Heart, Opening Your Mind

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

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

topic: Love, Positive, Break Up, Mending A Broken Heart, Inspirational Moving On

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

- Guy Finley

topic: Inspirational, Break Up, Letting Go, Inspirational Moving On, Moving Forward In Life

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me,

- Frank Bruno

topic: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Rock Song, Inspirational Baby, Mother And Daughter, Long Love

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

topic: Marriage, Breakup, Determination, Marriage Divorce, Moving On After Breakup

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

- Drake

topic: Ex Boyfriend, Ex Girlfriend, Broke Up, After Break Up, After Breakup

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

topic: House, Wrecks, Stuff, After Breakup, Heart Wrenching

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

topic: Funny, Moving On, Break Up, Moving On After Breakup, Really Sad Break Up

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

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

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Breakup, After Break Up, After Breakup

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

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Breakup, After Break Up, After Breakup

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

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Breakup, After Break Up, After Breakup

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

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Breakup, After Breakup, Heart Wrenching

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

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity