95+ Best Inspirational Quotes About Breakups And Moving On

Inspirational Quotes About Breakups And Moving On

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or even in a year. But eventually, things will turn up. You will get better and be able to look back and say: “I made it!”

Just because your past didn’t turn out exactly as you wanted it to, doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you ever imagined.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. ~ Eckhart Tolle

What appears to be the end, is actually a new beginning.

Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or even in a year. But eventually, things will turn up. You will get better and be able to look back and say: “I made it!”

Some people think it’s holding on that makes them strong, when actually, it’s being able to let go.

You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

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

Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end ~ Robin Sharma

Inhale the future. Exhale the past.

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. ~ Pema Chodron

If you really want closure, at some point you have to shut the door. ~ Jacki Wells Wunderlin

You don’t need closure. You just need to give yourself permission to move on.~ Steve Harvey

Sometimes, we survive by forgetting.

Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.

No matter how badly people treat you, never sink to their level. Just remember that you are better than that and walk away.

When you see me, I want you to recognize what you had, regret what you lost, and realize what you’re never getting back.

Sometimes, we have to let go of what’s killing us, even if it’s killing us to let go.

Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.

As soon as your ex sees you smiling, that’s the minute they want you back.

The best relationships usually begin unexpectedly.

Just because you miss someone, doesn’t mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

Pain is the fist that knocks you down. Forgiveness is the hand that helps you back up again. ~ Doe Zantamata

The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker

Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story, That’s just the end of their part in your story.

You’re not ready for your next, if you’re still trying to impress your ex.

They didn’t cheat because of who you are. They chose to cheat because of who they are not. ~ Charles J. Orlando

It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. ~ David Levithan

I don’t know what’s worse. People who lie, or people who think I am stupid enough to believe the lies.

When you cheated on me, you threw away a diamond and picked up a rock.

There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal. ~ Edmond Mbiaka

Trust is like a piece of paper. Once it’s been trampled on, it will never be perfect again.

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Betrayal can only happen if you love. ~ John Le Carre

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal. ~ Robert C. Solomon

One of the hardest things you will ever have to do, is to grieve the loss of someone, who is still alive.

Guys are like bras, they hook up behind your back.

Cheating is easy. Try something more challenging, like being faithful.

Of course I’m not jealous when I see you with your new love. My parents always taught me to give to those less fortunate than myself.

I may have cried when you left me, but I definitely laughed when I saw who you left me for.

Some people treat relationships like a video game. They play them and when they get bored, they cheat.

I’m truly sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid, but I honestly thought you knew!

Mirrors don’t lie and luckily for you, they don’t laugh!

You only had one very annoying habit…breathing!

I’ve found puddles deeper than you.

Nope, I checked my receipt and I definitely didn’t buy any of your bullshine!

Don’t ever be ashamed of what you did. That’s your parents’ job.

I miss you like an idiot misses the point.

I have neither the time, nor the crayons, to explain this to you.

All I’m saying is that I’ve never seen you and Satan in the same room.

Just two things. 1. Where have you been all my life? 2. Can you go back there please?

Keep rolling those eyes of yours and you may eventually find a brain cell up there.

I honestly forgive you for dumping me. I realize now that not everybody has perfect taste.

There’s no need to repeat yourself. I heard you just fine the first time.

Have you ever listened to someone for a while and wondered…”who ties your shoelaces for you?”

Ever looked at your ex and wondered,”Was I drunk the entire relationship?”

Dating an ex is the equivalent of failing a test you already had the answers to. ~ Kendrick Cole

Dating your ex again is like buying your clothes back from goodwill. There’s a reason you got rid of them in the first place.

When your ex texts to say ‘I miss you’ that really means the other person they tried to replace you with failed.

Never let an old flame burn you twice.

Never go back to an old love. It’s like reading a book, over and over again, when you already know how it ends.

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

After Breakup Motivational Quotes

Getting back with your ex is like taking a shower and then putting your dirty underwear back on.

It’s much better to leave your ex in the past, rather than make the same mistake with your future.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe away the people who made you cry.

Don’t let the heart that doesn’t love you, keep you from the one that will.

I am so proud of my heart. It’s been played, burned and broken, but somehow, it still works.

Being single is better than being lied to, cheated on and disrespected.

When love is real, it doesn’t lie, cheat, pretend or keep secrets.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~ M. Kathleen Casey

It only takes one bad ex to realize you deserve so much more.

The worst kind of hurt is betrayal, because it means someone was willing to hurt you, just to make themselves feel better.

I thought I still loved you but then I realized I only loved the memories of the person I had thought you were.

Sometimes, your heart just needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

What consumes your mind, controls your life.

Stop treating yourself as a victim of your past. Just be a confident survivor and you will be able to handle anything. ~ Aarti Khurana

Sorry for all the things I said about you, but I guess the truth always hurts.I will always be eternally grateful that you set me free and gave me the opportunity to discover my true worth.

When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.

Thanks for showing me that I was down-dating with you.

You remind me of a penny. Two-faced and not worth very much.

Waiting for you is like waiting for the rain in a drought. Useless and disappointing.

I don’t like to call it revenge. Returning the favor sounds better.

Revenge is beneath me, but accidents do happen!

If only more people were fluent in the art of silence.

Thank you for showing me what I don’t need in my life.

Roses are red, violets are blue. I’ve got 5 fingers and the middle one’s for you.

I was better than your ex. I’ll be better than your next. And I sure as hell, am better than the rest.

I may not be perfect, but at least I’m not you.

Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you’re really abusing the privilege.

Thankfully, you’re no longer part of my life, but I wish you all the best with yours.

My heart has no room for you, but the trunk of my car definitely does.

You’re not even worth the calories I burn talking to you.

I’m not insulting you. I’m describing you.

Don’t take yourself so seriously, no one else does.

I’m busy right now, can I ignore you some other time?

“Someone I loved once gave me a box of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift” ~Mary Oliver

“I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.” ~Paul Anka

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you” ~Ovid

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together”~Marilyn Monroe

“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on – series polygamy – until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” ~Tom Robbins

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” ~Denis Waitley

“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.” ~Billy Corgan

“We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first”~George John Whyte-Melville

Motivational Quotes After Breakup

“Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?” ~Donna Lynn Hope

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~Kenji Miyazawa

“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.” ~Jean-Yves Leloup

“You cannot let go of someone you never really had, and if you had them you wouldn’t have to let go.” ~Dr. Gary Funk

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

For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.” ~Nora Ephron

“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know” ~Pema Chodron

“What’s that line from T.S. 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 Morrisette

“When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?” ~Helen Fielding

“When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My life until that point had pivoted around some form of education, and all of a sudden, it was gone. Homework, classes, running around, and then –bam – nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even mentions it. You just suddenly have a gap and have to decide how to fill it. A break up is like that gap, only much, much more painful. One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof. And even though I’m not one of those people who has to be in a relationship all the time, I was feeling at a loss.” ~Lish McBride

The hottest love has the coldest end ~Socrates

The greatest revenge is compassion.

Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. ~Oscar Wilde

Saying goodbye is the most painful way of solving a problem.

You treated me, like an option so I left you like a choice.

You and I will always be unfinished business.

Forgive yourself for loving the wrong person.

I’m falling apart. I’m barely breathing with a broken heart that’s still beating.

Touch her heart. Not her body. Steal her attention. Not her virginity. Make her smile. Don’t waste her tears.

Dear Brain, sorry for overloading you with thoughts of him.Dear Tummy, sorry for all the butterflies.Dear Pillow, sorry for all the tears.Dear Heart, sorry for all the damage.

I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with & I won’t be found. ~R.H.Sin

There are some days when I fell like I’m on top of the world. And then the next day it’s falling down all around me.

You said I love you, & I said it too. The only difference is, I didn’t lie to you. ~Drake

It hurts, but it’s ok…I’m used to it.

After a breakup realize that you’had a life BEFORE them and you can still have a life AFTER them you just have to find yourself again. ~Sonya Parker

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ~Marilyn Monroe

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Never cry for the person who hurts you. Just smile & say “Thanks for giving me a change to find someone better than you.”

It’s going to be hard. But hard is not impossible.

Closure happens right after you accept that letting go and moving on is more important than projecting a fantasy of how the relationship could have been. ~Sylvester McNutt

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking.

Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.

It takes a strong heart to love. And it takes a truly strong heart to love again after being hurt. ~Karen Salmansohn

Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places. ~Ernest Hemingway.

A breakup is like a broken mirror. Its better to leave it than hurt yourself trying to pick up the pieces…

Inspirational Quotes About Moving On

Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.

Giving up doesn’t mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.

Sometimes, it’s better to turn the page instead of being the only one who tries to fix things.

Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it. ~Charles Swindoll.

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. ~Robin Sharma

I walked away because you were busy finding faults in me, while I was busy overlooking yours…

When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.

If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream. ~Frank Ocean.

I’ve sent my ex a card that said, “Get better soon.” He’s not ill, he’s just crappy in bed.

Break ups aren’t always meant for make ups. Sometimes relationships end in order for you to wake up.

An “ex” is called an “ex” because it is an EXample of what you shouldn’t have again in the future.

Dear Ex,Just because I’m nice to you, doesn’t mean I want you back. We broke up for a reason.

Never get jealous when you see your ex with someone else, because our parents taught us to give our used toys to the less fortunate.

No texts? I understand.No calls? I understand.No time for me? I understand. But when you see me with someone else, I hope you understand.

Don’t cry because it’s over; Smile because that asshole is finally someone else’s problem. ~Anonymous

We haven’t dated long enough for breakup sex.

You made me feel like I was hard to love and I will never forgive you for that.

At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.

Never regret anybody in your life, because good people give us happiness and bad people give us experience. Both are essentials in life.

I never hate you for not loving me anymore but I hate myself for still loving you.

It is hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone if your heart still does.

I know they said the first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest. I tried to keep us together, but you were busy keeping secrets.

Love starts with a hug, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

One day, you’re gonna remember me and how much I loved you, then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.

Someday when the pages of my life end, I know that you will be one of its most beautiful chapters. ~Unknown

Real men stay faithful. They don’t have time to look for another woman, because they’re too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

It’s painful to say goodbye to someone that you don’t want to let go. But it’s more painful to ask someone to stay if you know they really want to go.

Its hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember

Cheer up, sweet, beautiful girl. You are going to be in love again and it will be magnificent.

I don’t hate you, I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.

He’s going to be sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain and remember what an incredible woman you are.

I hope one day I’ll pop up in your head and you’ll think “I shouldn’t of let her go”.

You can’t make homes out of human beings…if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. ~Warsan Shire.

When a girl cries over a guy, she really loves him. When a guy cries over a girl, he will never love another girl like her.

I will always have this piece of my heart that smiles whenever I think about you.

It’s hard to give up the being together with someone ~Lois Lowry

If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it. ~Taylor Swift

Even if you break her heart into a million tiny pieces..she will forgive you, bless you, wish you a good life ahead and move on. She will cry alone, love you from a distance for the rest of her life but never beg for a space in your life. That is the heart of woman who loves from the depths of her soul but will never force you to love her in return.

You might think that you just hurt me, but it is not true. Actually I must thank you. Because you made me much stronger. And I’m not gonna drop a single tear for you.

One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your hurt.

I wonder if he knows how much I miss him.

Wanting him is hard to forget, loving him is hard to regret, losing him is hard to accept, even with all the hurt I’ve felt letting go is the most painful yet.

I won’t block you or delete you. I’m keeping you there so you will be able to see how happy I am without you.

Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn’t respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss.

Inspirational Quotes About Breakups

If you were happy with the wrong one, just think how happy you will be when the right one comes.

I used to think you took my breath away, but then I realised I was just suffocated by your bullshit.Rainbows always come after the darkest storm. ~Demi Lovao

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again. ~Tom Shields.

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

When you break up with someone, sometimes it doesn’t mean that you don’t love them anymore.

Sometimes, it means that you love them enough to let them go because you want them to be happy, and you realized that you’re just not able to be happy together. ~Doe Zantamata

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”

“What’s that line from T.S. 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.”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.”

“Hearts live by being wounded.”

“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

“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.”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”

“You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.”

“The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”

“Most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself.”—Elle Woods, Legally Blonde

“Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

“He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.”—Christina Yang, Grey’s Anatomy

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

“I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”— Professor Perlman, Call Me By Your Name

“Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.”

“If you have to force it, it’s not for you. Love should come with ease, freedom and space to expand.”

“You don’t need those people. By stepping aside, they’ve done you a favor. Because what you’ve got left after the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts. Those are the über cool sparkle rocket mind-blowers we’re after. Those are the people worthy of your love.”

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.”

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe