28 Cynical Love Quotes That Prove Love Is Dead

“Samantha Borgens: There are two kinds of people in this world: hopeless romantics and realists. Rusty Borgens: Right. Samantha Borgens: A realist just sees that face and packs it in with every other pretty girl they've ever seen before. The hopeless romantic becomes convinced that God put them on Ea…”

— Nat Wolff, Lily Collins, Sam, Rusty, amazon.com

“I like being on my own. Relationships are messy and people's feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We're young. We live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Might as well have fun while we can and save the serious stuff for later.”

— Zooey Deschanel, Summer, amazon.com

“I find myself formulating excuses I know you’ve already come up with, because I know I’ll never get an ‘I’m sorry’ followed by just a period. And I deserve that period.”

— Kendra Syrdal, amazon.com

“Heartbreak knocks the wind out of you, and the feelings of loss and longing can make getting out of bed a monumental task. Learning to trust and lean in to love again can feel impossible.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“Will it hurt? Will it matter if it does?”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, amazon.com

“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”

— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.com

“You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.”

— Beau Taplin, twitter.com

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”

— Louis CK, huffingtonpost.com

“'Cause I can't make you love me If you don't You can't make your heart feel Something it won't Here in the dark In this final hour Imma lay down my heart And feel the power if you want No you won't.”

— Bonnie Raitt, azlyrics.com

“You keep telling me, baby there will come a time When you will leave her arms and forever be in mine But I don't think that's the truth And I don't like being used and I'm tired of waiting It's too much pain to have to bear to love a man you have to share Why don't you stay? I'm down on my knees I'm…”

— Sugarland, metrolyrics.com

“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“It's fucked up that you had to learn about love from those who never loved you.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn’t give love. He could make love. But he couldn’t make promises.”

— G.G Renee Hill, amazon.com

“A thousand words couldn’t bring you back… I know this because I tried, neither could a thousand tears… I know this because I cried, you left behind a broken heart and happy memories too…but I never wanted memories…I only wanted you.”

— Anonymous, coolnsmart.com

“The silence isn’t so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.”

— Owl City, play.spotify.com

“He taught me how to love, but he didn’t teach me how to stop.”

— Anonymous, jarofquotes.com

“It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.”

— Dannika Dark, amazon.com

“But your lives aren't just on different tracks they're on different continents. And that means you're going to have to watch your heart from here on, because if you don't it's going to end up breaking into all sorts of pieces.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.”

— R.M Drake, amazon.com

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have no power to feel for him.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

“I poured my heart out to you. I can’t sit here like a fool waiting for you to be ready.”

— Angela Moore, amazon.com

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“What am I suppose to do, when the best part of me was always you?”

— The Script, amazon.com

“He slipped the ring back into his pocket and stepped out into the cold.”

— Annoymous, onesentencestories.tumblr.com

“You think it was tough out there. You think it was easy for me without you. You thought that every single day wasn't a Goddam marathon of my life without you?”

— Amanda Seyfried, amazon.com

“If love is setting a place at the table for someone who is never coming home, I think I'll pass.”

— Lily Collins, Samantha Borgens, amazon.com