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Break Up Quotes

Breaking up is a time of great emotional upheaval and bitter love. Let these Break Up Quotes help you to better understand what is happening to you, and help you to cope with the pain.

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

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 Raymond

 

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful
of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude
of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
- John Dos Passos

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
- Steve Martin

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people,
also break up more of their marriages,
but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love
as the determination of people not to live without it.
- Morton Hunt

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

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

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families
and have disastrous effects on our communities.
- Adam Rickitt

Few things tend more to alienate friendship
than a want of punctuality in our engagements.
I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup
to break up more than one intimacy.
- William Hazlitt

I understand why marriages break up over golf.
I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
- Shia LaBeouf

Why do you have to break up with her?
Be a man. Just stop calling.
- Matt LeBlanc

Break-ups are hard for anybody,
but it's particularly tough when it's being documented
and you see the person's picture everywhere.
Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.
- Winona Ryder

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage.
That's what it couldn't stand.
- James Taylor

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting,
of making up, of breaking up, of addiction.
There's a pattern of going to jail.
There's a pattern of passion for music.
- Nikki Sixx

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
- Joe Bob Briggs

Who is ever adequate?
We all create situations each other can't live up to
then break our hearts at them because they don't.
- Elizabeth Bowen

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

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up.
As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
- Shelley Berman

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
- Byron Nelson

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.
- Ashlee Simpson

I remember driving home one evening
while they were reviewing the papers on the radio.
One of the articles was about me separating from my wife.
It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.
- Rory Bremner

I know one husband and wife who,
whatever the official reasons given to the court
for the break up of their marriage,
were really divorced because the husband believed
that nobody ought to read while he was talking
and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
- Vera Brittain

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller,
the rise of television which became the new storyteller,
the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
- Barry Levinson

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man,
he ain't supposed to be all involved in that.
That's why she got sisters and friend for.
Just show up with the ring and act right.
- Mike Epps

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie