254 Quotes About Breaking-up

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

Everything is all right,When you’re here,When you’re right next to me,When my hand is in yours,Don’t leave me,Don’t leave me empty handed.

Let me go is a suppliant unit of words looming with urgency as if it were a dangling, drooping leaf about to fall in summer or a querulous song of a caged bird wishing to spread its wings onto the cerulean sky. (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Phenomenology of ‘Let Me Go’)

The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself.

I played until my lipsgave out on cigarettesand thoughts of you.

A lot of people will break your heart, but if you look at the bright side, only one will be the worst.