Love & Romance: Heartbreak Quotes

Explore a curated collection of heartbreak quotes that reflect the ache, acceptance, and quiet strength that follow love lost. These lines offer moments of clarity and companionship, inviting reflection without rushing the healing process. From tender farewells to resilient new beginnings, find sentiments that acknowledge sorrow while pointing toward hope. Use them for journaling, sharing, or simply sitting with your feelings, and allow thoughtful words to help you name the pain and navigate forward with care.

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"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

Bob Marley, Musician

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"Expectation is the root of all heartache"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

"Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her"

Francis I of France, Royalty

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"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait"

Diego Rivera, Artist

"He who would love much has also much to suffer"

Jose Rizal, Writer

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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all"

Samuel Butler, Poet

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"Your love to me was like an unread book"

Countee Cullen, Poet

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

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"Love is a promise delivered already broken"

Steve Martin, Comedian

"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

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"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been"

Samuel Daniel, Poet

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"The first cut is the deepest"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs"

Ovid, Poet

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"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

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"Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise"

Sara Teasdale, Author

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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"Its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

Walter Scott, Novelist

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"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

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"Hell, madam, is to love no longer"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns"

Thomas Moore, Poet

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"The sea hath fish for every man"

William Camden, Historian

"I fell off my pink cloud with a thud"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain"

Thomas Malory, Author

"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it"

Emma Thompson, Actress

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"I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired"

Janis Ian, Musician

"Love comes unseen; we only see it go"

Austin Dobson, Celebrity

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"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"I was in love once, and it was terrible"

Gloria Trevi, Musician

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"Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars"

Roy Orbison, Musician

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