297 Quotes About Breakups

It took a month after the breakup for her to realize that she was refusing to go anywhere that didn't have cell service on the off chance he'd call, and after that revelation she [Jeannine Dziri] found herself wondering if you were wrong to believe that you went on as yourself even after the loss of that person who had so decisively shaped you.

I think it best we went our separate ways, and that those paths never crossed again.

Humanity had chosen the land over the sea millennia ago, and sometimes - when she let her mind wander, when she was romanticizing what she did and how she did it - she thought the sea still held a grudge. Breakups were never easy, and while humanity was hot and fast and had had plenty of time to get over it, the oceans were deep and slow, and for them all change had happened only yesterday. The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.

Why should I be sad? I have lost someone who didn't love me. But they lost someone who loved them.

It was serendipityOr maybe synchronicityOr wavelengths and frequencies that brought us together.But our insecuritiesAnd emotional instabilities and personality polarities separated us.

Shoutout to everyone with an ex who badmouths them to every dumb-dumb who will listen... Don’t be dragged into their lonely bitterness... Time reveals the truth...

Being broken-hearted after a breakup is not a sign of someone who should avoid love. That's a sign of someone who knows how to love, who soaks it up for what it's worth, and appreciates its real value.

Why did I walk away from something that was perfect?" They ask me all the time. But I didn't. Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road. Stuff I didn't care about, so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.

People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with—that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn't really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it.