297 Quotes About Breakups

I am the bicycle you lost in the park the summer you turned twelve… You didn’t think I was so great anymore… You started finding fault with all I said...pg162

She, that witch Julie, brought sunshine into my shadows. She was a vessel of light that had sailed down from the highest stars. In those days, I had no idea that women were made from pain. Now pain is all I know. I play music all the time. This music transforms words into tears. Agony floats on this pool of sorrow. It defies the motion of the planets around the sun.

Sometimes scars run deeperthan wounds ever did.

I don‘t know if you noticed but I have been trying, too hard, to be myself since the day I lost you.

My life is not a waiting period for your return;I live my life for myself, not for you.

In short, it’s almost impossible to “totally done” with someone you once loved with all your heart!

Some breakups are the breakthroughs you've been praying for.

When people split up, it always ricocheted like a fucking bullet, ripping through everyone who happened to be close by.

The scarcity mindset in dating often goes hand in hand with the sunk cost fallacy. The sunk cost fallacy says that it is bad to lose something we have invested time, money, energy or emotions into, regardless of whether that something is still actually doing anything for you. Humans are highly risk averse creatures, so we tend to prefer NOT losing something over potentially gaining something, even if we don't like what we would lose.