The Best Quotes About Breaking Up

“For now, though, he'd just have to add her name to the list of people he cared about who'd moved on. It was getting to be a long list, and it contained some pretty important names. In time, he thought, Aimee would probably seem like a footnote, but just now her absence felt bigger than that, like ma…”

— Tom Perrotta, amazon.com

“Find someone. Fall in love, Give your soul. Lose your soul, Lose that love. Find someone else.”

— Allen Epley, thelifeandtimes.bandcamp.com

“Though we may be sober now, we will never be clean.”

— Bianca Sparacino, biancasparacino.tumblr.com

“Tears open her imperial veins And tumbles in the sea.”

— Emily Dickinson, amazon.com

“How a woman can once again become violently desirable after you have broken up remains a mystery. Some, perhaps, have the same sense of retrospective admiration of their own bodies at the moment of leaving them.”

— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com

“It’s not you, it’s me. It’s my issue. I’m the one with the problem. I’m putting you in an unfair position. You’re a good person. I need to work through some things. You need to move on. We tried, we did. And you never know what’ll happen in the future.”

— Iain Reid, amazon.com

“Tell me how to love again when the ashes of my heart and smoke in my chest are evidence that love burns everything it touches.”

— Nikita Gill, amazon.com

“Losing you made me find myself.”

— Tina Tran, amazon.com

“She was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I fucked it up again and again and again.”

— Tom Kapinos, Adam Bernstein, Michael Lehmann, David Von Ancken, Ed Carr, Todd Grace, Shannon Mitchell, Mike Tenerelli, James Frederick, Greg Cheng, Hank Moody, David Duchovny, imdb.com

“This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartac…”

— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com