Heartbreak has a way of sticking around—even once you’ve binged every episode of Friends or any of your favourite shows and listened to Kun Faya Kun along with other songs or eaten several tubs of your favourite ice cream. Sometimes healing takes time, and other times, reading a book or self-love quotes help you get over painful breakups.
While planning a movie night with friends, going out for shopping or meditation are a few proven ways to lift our spirits, have you ever tried to heal yourself by reading break-up quotes? Here are 70+ break up quotes and captions that will help you to move on and be happy again.
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1. If someone can walk away from you, don’t run behind them; let them go.
If a person has broken up with you, then don’t beg him/her to come back to your life. Let them go.
2. It’s better to be single than losing your self-respect in a toxic relationship.
It is preferable to stay single than being in a toxic relationship and losing your self-respect and worth.
3. Don’t let anyone make you forget your worth.
Don’t let anyone tell you your worth or even make you forget your worth or how valuable you are.
4. Don’t cling to a mistake you made just because you spent a long time with it.
Don’t be in a toxic relationship just because you spent a lot of time making it perfect. It is better to forget your mistake and move on.
5. A painful heartbreakis a way of God to let you realise that he saved you from the wrong one.
It is always said that God has decided something better for you, so if you are going through a breakup, remember that God has saved you from being with the wrong person.
6. Some things break your heart but be grateful as it has fixed your vision.
A breakup might break your heart but it will help you realise the mistake you made and will make you wiser.
7. Forget about what’s gone, appreciate things that still remain with you and look forward to what’s coming next.
Don’t stick to your past and ruin your present and future. Forget your past, start appreciating things that you have now and look forward to a bright future.
8. Pain will make you stronger, fear will make you braver and heartbreak, it will make you wiser.
It is said that if you overcome your pain, you will be stronger, and if you overcome your fear, you will be braver. Likewise, a heartbreak will make you wiser.
9. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come to your life.
In life, we have often seen good things falling apart, but that’s not the end. It happens because there is something better for you in future.
10. No boyfriend, no problems.
It is a common saying that a lot of problems are created when you have a boyfriend, but if you don’t have one, there will be no problem.
11. Look forward to what today has to offer, not what yesterday has taken away.
Don’t look back and be upset about things you have lost; instead, look ahead and think about the things you have today and can achieve tomorrow.
12. Accept your present, let go of your past, and have faith in your future.
You have to make peace with what you lost yesterday and accept what you have today and have faith in what you will achieve tomorrow.
13. Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a new opportunity given to you to discover your true self and what you truly want.
Don’t be afraid to restart your life. Maybe it’s a new opportunity given by God to you to discover who you truly are and what it is that you desire.
14. Inhale the future, exhale the past.
It is a simple mantra to forget your past and embrace the future.
15. Don’t cry because it’s over and will never come back, but smile because it happened and you learned a lesson.
Don’t get upset or cry because a romantic relationshiphas come to an end, but smile because it has happened and you’ve learnt a lesson and become wiser.
16. Of all my mistakes that I have made, you were the worst.
If I count on the mistakes that I had made,you were the biggest mistake of my life.
17. It’s not you, it’s me. I have finally realised that you were not good for me.
It is good to realise on your own if a person is right for you or not.
18. Sometimes breakups aren’t meant for makeup, they are meant for wake-up.
Some breakups work as an eyeopener, so don’t think to patch things up or try to get back in a relationship. Just move on.
19. I didn’t know what to do without you, but I’m glad I tried. And I tried it successfully!
There was a time when I didn’t know what I would do without you or how I would live without you. But today, I’m glad that I tried and became successful.
20. I have had a realisation that I want and deserve more than you.
Finally, the time has come when I have realised what I want and that I deserve more than you.
21. To be very honest my dear, I don’t give a damn.
When you have lived in a toxic relationship for a long time and have cried over your partner, then comes a point when you don’t feel anything about the breakup and actually feel good about it.
22. Sometimes, your mind already knows the truth but your heart needs more time to accept.
Sometimes, we all know that we want to be out of a relationship but our heart needs more time to accept it.
23. What’s a queen without a king? Well, historically speaking, more powerful.
It is said that a woman becomes stronger and more powerful when she comes out of a toxic relationship.
24. It’s rather to be happy and alone than to be with someone who makes you miserable every single day.
It is better to stay alone and live happily than to be with someone in a toxic relationship.
25. If you have to move on, stop re-reading the last chapter or you won’t be able to start the next chapter of your life.
You won’t be able to move on if you keep thinking about the past. So, forget the past and accept the present with an open heart.
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26. To have the courage to step out of our past to live our dreams is the most courageous thing one can do.
The most courageous thing to do is get out of your past and live to build a great future ahead.
27. Moving on doesn’t mean that you have forgotten the past but it means that when you look back, you don’t feel awful about it.
When you move on in your life, it doesn’t mean that you have forgotten the past, it simply means that it doesn’t affect you much now.
28. Sadness passes away with time.
If you are unhappy at the time, don’t worry, it will pass.
29. You cannot move forward unless you let go of a situation or forgive yourself and realise that the situation is over.
To move forward, you have to forgive yourself and let go of your past.
30. Women who have figured out their worth, have picked up their suitcase and boarded a flight to freedom.
Women who have figured out that they are important and worth better things have moved forward towards a better life.
31. Take time to appreciate yourself for moving forward when you think you can’t do it.
Take out time for yourself and appreciate the fact that you are moving forward towards your goal when you thought it was impossible to move ahead.
32. To get over someone that you cared a lot about, you have to restart your life and begin a new chapter.
Restart your life and write a new chapter to move forward and get over your past.
33. Believe in yourself because at some point of time you will stop pretending and start believing in you.
Always believe in yourself and stop pretending that you never thought of winning in your life.
34. Heartbreak doesn’t mean the end. Cry over it and move on. You will find love again, and it will be even more beautiful!
A heartbreak doesn’t stop your life, have faith and move on. You will find love again.
35. “You can’t stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.
You will get to hear about bad news in your life and you can’t stop it but it is up to you how you take it.
36. Life is like riding a bicycle. You have to keep moving forward to make a balance.
You have to make a balance in your life and keep moving forward.
37. The process of getting through a break up is not easy, but you get less and less sad about it every day.
To get over a breakup is not easy but eventually you care less and less about it.
38. Your heart will never be the same after a breakup but tell yourself that you will be okay.
You will never be the same person as you used to be after a bad breakup but don’t forget to tell yourself that everything will be fine.
39. Allow your mind to take it all in so that when you get back up on your feet, you know how you feel.
Let your brain process all bad things that have happened to you so that when you get back on track, you only focus on moving forward.
40. No matter how heavy your burden is or how tragic your love story is. You keep moving forward.
Doesn’t matter how tragic your love story is, process that it has ended and keep moving forward.
41. You won’t be happy in the future if you don’t leave the baggage of your past.
You will never be happy if you don’t leave your past in the past and move on.
42. “Don’t worry. If you are thinking that your life is over, then wait, have patience. A new storyline will fall from the sky and land right in your lap.
Never think that your life has stopped. Have patience, a new storyline is about to begin.
43. There is a past for everyday and there is a future for everyday.
Each and everyday of your life has a past and a future. It’s up to you with which you want to stick.
44. The only real battle in life is between sticking around your past and letting go.
To stick with your past or to let it go is the real battle one has to fight in life.
45. Let yourself evolve past certain people.
Allow yourself to evolve and grow beyond certain people in your life.
46. Sometimes you hold on to what’s left and sometimes you let it go so that you can start afresh.
There is a time when you hold on to what is left and then there is a time when you start your life again.
47. Your past is full of ifs, don’t stress about it. Move on.
Your life has a lot of its, don’t stick with it or don’t think about it
48. Pleasure of love will last only for a moment but the pain of love will last a lifetime.
The way we remember our bad days for a longer period of time, same way the pain we suffer in a heartbreak remains with us for a longer period of time and we forget pleasure easily.
49. Only time can heal your broken heart.
Give yourself time because time is the only thing that can heal your heart.
50. Your tears flow when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.
Your tears will tell the story of your heartbreak when your mouth won’t be able to speak.
51. I still think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.
With the passing of time, i haven’t stopped thinking about you but now, i don’t talk about it.
52. You can’t buy love, but you pay heavily for it.
It is well said that you can’t buy love but you pay heavily for it.
53. It is better to fall in love and lose it than never experience it at all.
To fall in love and then lose it is still better than not experiencing what love is.
54. When in love, you give someone the power to break you.
If you are in love, you give the other person the power to break your heart.
55. I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
It’s not just the heart but my other body parts can also feel the ache after the heartbreak.
56. You took off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.
You broke my heart and left and now I don’t feel anything.
57. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.
It was like I’m going for a war when I fell in love because after the heartbreak, I’m not the same person.
58. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.
After the heartbreak, you hope for everything to get fixed.
59. I will never love another. Not like I loved you. I just don’t have the love for it again.
I can’t love anyone else the same way I loved you, I don’t think I can.
60. It is painful to love someone who doesn’t love you back.
It is painful when the person you love doesn’t reciprocate the feelings.
61. It’s painful when you still love someone who broke your heart with all the little pieces of heart that’s left.
Even when someone breaks your heart, you continue to love that person with everything that’s left within you.
62. When someone leaves you it doesn’t mean that your story has come to an end, it means their part in your story has ended.
When someone leaves you, it doesn’t mean that your story has ended. Wait for sometime and a new chapter will be added in your book.
63. The worst thing is to be someone’s nothing when you’ve made them your everything.
It’s not easy to be a nobody to a person when that person is your whole life.
64. It is simple to fall in love and it’s awful to fall out of love.
It’s easy to fall in love with someone but it is really difficult to fall out of love because you care about that person a lot.
65. When you heal from a heartbreak, you’re never the same as you were before.
After healing from a heartbreak, you’re never the same person that you were before, you become wiser and cautious.
66. Being lonely doesn’t hurt as much as heartbreak. I embraced it as it’s better to stay alone then get your heart broken.
Being lonely is way better than a heartbreak. Embrace it as it’s better to stay alone then heart broken.
67. The heart is heaviest when it’s broken and lightest when it’s full with love.
Your heart feels heavy after the breakup and it feels light when you are in love.
68. No matter how hard your heart is broken, life keeps moving and doesn’t stop for you to grief.
Doesn’t matter if you’re going through a heartbreak. Your life has not stopped, it’s moving at the same pace. So, buckle up and move on.
69. The best way to be happy is when you let go of things you tried to hold on for a longer period of time. The longer you hold it, the longer you will suffer.
To be happy, let go of your past and embrace your future. The longer you will hold on to the past the difficult it will be to move ahead.
70. It is strange that you become wiser after your heart is broken.
There is no doubt that you become wiser after a heartbreak.
71. Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can make their way.
Sometimes, things fall apart so that new and better things can make their way to your life.
72. Don’t clutch your past so tightly to your chest that it doesn’t leave a place for your arms to embrace the present.
Don’t stick on to your past to a point that you don’t let yourself embrace the future.
73. Heartbreak is a blessing. It helps you grow and turns you into a better and wiser person.
In a way, heartbreak is a blessing. It helps you grow and makes you wiser.
74. A heartbreak changes a person but that’s okay. Life is not static, so why should you be?
A person is not the same after a heartbreak but that’s totally fine. You learn, you grow and become wiser.
75. If you truly love someone then sometimes you will have to let them go . In love, you have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
If you truly love a person, then you will have to let that person go because love doesn’t only mean to take, it also means to give and sometimes you even have to give up a person.
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