Quotes about breakups and being love sick

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart.

There’s a difference between saying good bye and letting go. Saying good bye is 'I'll see you again when I'm ready to hold your hand, and when you're ready to hold mine.' Letting go is 'I'll miss your hand. But I realized it's not mine to hold, and I will never hold it again.'

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say 'But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.'

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I know I'm not worthy of you. But I just can't help loving you. It's like wanting to touch a star - you know you'll never reach it, but you just gotta keep trying.

I'd give up all the world to see that little piece of heaven looking back at me.
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.
I've gotta live with the choices I made and I can't live with myself today.

Did I ever really love Big or was I addicted to the pain? The exquisite pain of wanting someone so unattainable.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.

Because even if it breaks your heart to be 'just friends'... if you really care about someone, you'll take the hit.

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I love life. Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like... it makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

And one day I'll be able to show you how strong I've become through you.

It's hard to accept the truth, when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.

'It was a mistake,' you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

Stop telling me to follow my heart. It once led me to you.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving.

It's funny how someone can break your heart, and you still love him with all the little pieces.

The world breaks us all and afterwards, some are stronger at the broken places.

Because in the end, when you lose somebody, every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody that you cared about used to be.

It's funny because everything makes me think of you. I read a poem, and I wonder what you'd say about it.
I see people, and I wonder you'd know about them.
Everywhere I go, I run into something, that reminds me of you all over again.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

It would be easier to forget you, if you weren't that much perfect.

The only way to get over somebody is to feel really bad, cry to your girlfriends - and to replay what you hated about him over and over in your head all day.

Nobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.

Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living a balanced life.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

I only miss you when I'm breathing
I only need you when my heart is beating
You are the color that I'm bleeding
I only miss you when I'm breathing

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Becca: "My heart hurts."
Hank: "Oh, god, baby. Mine, too. Is it boy trouble? Me too. Well, girl trouble. You want to talk about it?"
Becca: "No. I just want to know when it stops hurting."
Hank: "Well, here's the deal, and you're not gonna want to hear this, so it's gonna sound like piss-poor parenting, but if you're lucky, never."

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.