Quotes and Sayings about Seperation & Breakup

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

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

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart.

People don't care about breakups. They're just curious about the reason.

If children were enough reason to stay married, we'd have no divorced parents.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

It's like my dad always says: "Always give a hundred percent, unless you're donating blood or getting a divorce."

Religion is stupid anyway. I mean, a virgin gets pregnant by a ghost! You would never get away with that in a divorce court.

Ted it's fine, I'm a child of divorce. You guys keep fighting all you want - as long as the expensive gifts keep coming.

Cal: "How about we say what we want on three? One, two, three."
Emily: "I want a divorce."
Cal: "Crème Brûlée."

Kiana got drunk and tried to set our marriage certificate on fire. She said, "good luck trying to return me without the receipt."

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about 20 grand.

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Like who I'm gonna live with after you get divorced? Is there a third option, cause both of you kind of make me wanna kill myself.

J. Paul Getty: "They say you never really know someone until you have divorced them."
Fletcher Chase: "I wish I knew that three marriages ago."

Barney: "You avoiding the family too?"
James: "I'm gay, I'm black and I'm getting a divorce. Those walking skeletons are gonna have more questions for me than their pharmacists."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

One of the hardest things is to stop loving someone, because they stopped loving you...

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.

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

Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away - and going away means forgetting.

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.

Sometimes, we think we're strong for holding on. But true strength lies in letting go.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

If you want to fly, you have to let go what pulls you down.

Believe! The more we let go, the higher we fly.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

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.

Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Only love and death change all things.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.

Jin Tae-kyung: "Mom, they've been together for ten years, and they never had a fight."
Bae Soo-ja: "That's what concerns me the most."

I think love should come out of nowhere, sweep you up completely.

Barney: "Our wedding is gonna be legendary."
Robin: "No wait for it?"
Barney: "I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore."

Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.

Marshall: "It's kind of a big, professional meeting. You might want to trade out that lollipop for a shirt."
Ted: "Yeah. I'll just give it to one of these kids."
Marshall: "Oh, buddy. You're half naked, you're not a parent to any of these children. Don't offer 'em candy!"