Profoundly inspirational heartache quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
Famous Heartache Quotes
The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t. Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is
There is something bleak and barren about a world that is missing the person who knows you best. Jodi Picoult
I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore. Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
I thought that I’d been hurt before but no one’s ever left me quite this sore. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to breathe me back to life. Shawn Mendes
One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go. Aubrey Drake Graham
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
The scariest thing is that we didn’t even have to be together for you to break my heart.
Why’d you have to say goodbye? Look what you’ve done to me. I can’t stop these tears from falling’ from my eyes. Mary J. Blige, I’m Goin’ Down
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. Atticus
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. Carroll Bryant
You don’t die from a broken heart. You only wish you did.
I’d rather have a broken arm than a broken heart. Christie Brinkley
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. Mineko Iwasaki
One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then, I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation. Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet
I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget. Kate Winslet
You weren’t just a star to me. You were my whole damn sky
You were red and you liked me cause I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn’t for you. Halsey
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
I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart. Julia Roberts
You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don’t want either of them back. Colleen Hoover, November 9
The scars of your love remind me of us. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all. Adele, Rolling in the Deep
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. Terri Guillemets
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. Stelle Atwater
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. Meredith Taylor, Churning Water
My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda
Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. Warsan Shire
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. Andrea Gibson
I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again. Atticus
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman
What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same. Perry Poetry
I scratched out your name and your face. What is it about you that I can’t erase, baby? Well every promise don’t work out that way Beyonce, Sandcastles
She’s gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen. Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
In another life I would make you stay, so I don’t have to say you were the one that got away. Katy Perry, The One That Got Away
The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity. Sanober Khan
I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart. Britney Spears
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart. Becca Fitzpatrick
We only said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times. You go back to her, and I go back to black. Amy Winehouse
Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.
But if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you though. I remember everyone that leaves. Lilo, Lilo & Stitch
A broken heart is the worst. It’s like having broken ribs. Nobody can see it, but it hurts every time you breathe.
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities. Patti Roberts
Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars. Violeta Parra
I gave you the best of me. Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it Nicholas Sparks
The human heart is the only thing whose worth increases the more it is broken. Shakeeb Orgunwall
Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs. Rita Stradling
Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives
I wanted love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. David Levithan, Every Day
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Bette Davis
My heart’s cracking apart all over again because of the way I’ve missed him. Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t. Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
The heart will break, but broken live on. Lord Byron
Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over. Maggi Richard
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. Mineko Iwasaki
Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. Shannon L. Alder
If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. Brian MacLearn