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The heart was made to be broken. -- Oscar Wilde
The heart will break, but broken live on. -- Lord Byron
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -- Robert Browning
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -- Oscar Wilde
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger -- Sara Evans
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. -- Dennis Quaid
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. -- Hermann Hesse
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. -- Usher
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. -- Washington Irving
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. -- Richard Bach
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
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. -- Jean Baudrillard
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. -- Rosa Parks
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
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work. -- Usher
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
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
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. -- Estelle
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche. -- Adele
My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy. -- Elayne Boosler
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. -- Drake
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. -- Adele
I'm a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out. -- Selena Gomez
I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly. -- Brittany Murphy
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup. -- Kris Allen
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
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
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
It sucks but it's exactly what I thought it would be. Like trying to start over. I got a hole in my heart, I'm some kind of emotional rollercoaster. -- Eminem
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
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. -- Ellie Goulding
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 Monti
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his. -- Christina Aguilera
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
I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you. -- Taylor Swift
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
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. -- Armistead Maupin
The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page. -- Shay Mitchell
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
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
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration. -- Frank Wolf
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them. -- Patti Stanger
Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me. -- Jack W. Hayford
Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time. -- Cindy Chupack
Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours. -- John Leguizamo
I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun. -- Patrick Carney
Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably. -- Meg Ryan
You may continue to call it a breakup. I will continue to call it an exorcism. -- pleasefindthis
When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well. -- Christine Lakin
A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it . -- Linda Wisdom
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
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained. -- Vladimir Putin
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
I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me. -- Regina Spektor
For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing. -- Greg Behrendt
Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself. -- Greg Behrendt
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well. -- Sarah Dessen
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. -- James A. Baldwin
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
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could. -- John Green
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
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
I'm just saying, tonight, if you're going through a breakup and you're drinking, don't call. Just don't do it. Don't call. Because here's the thing: booze has information in it! -- Greg Behrendt
I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't." -- Drew Barrymore
Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon. -- Chelsea Handler
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me. -- Maureen Johnson
On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore. -- Patsy Kensit
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
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

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