Positive Break Up Sayings and Quotes

Breakups are seldom pleasant experiences, but in the long run they can be the best thing for you. The end of one relationship offers the opportunity to start fresh with a new one. Take a constructive outlook with the collection of wise and insightful positive breakup quotes below.

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along. Anonymous
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having. Sarah Mlynowski
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. Mandy Hale
You are telling the story of your life. You have the power to tell a different one. You choose, every day, how you interpret others’ actions, events, and the world around you. You and only you have the power to change this. Change the script! Laura Elliott
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. Louise Erdrich
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having. Sarah Mlynowski
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t. Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. Deborah Reber
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us Alexander Graham Bell
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E.M. Forster
Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go. Len Santos
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. Mandy Hale
If you feel lighter without them, more alive, healthier, take it as a win. Maranda Pleasant
There is no such thing as failure in love. Relationships end, but they don’t fail. Love is only a failure when you don’t learn and you don’t try. Amy Chan
Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you. John Green
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. Guy Finley
One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones. Turcois Ominek
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell
It hurts to say goodbye to someone you love but it's the best for both of us to move on. Anonymous
The hardest part about breaking up is letting go of the last piece of your heart. Heather Nichols
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak, whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it break. William Shakespeare
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. Drake
Injuries, illnesses, and other painful experiences can be a huge wake-up call: a golden opportunity to start living the way you've always intended. Alexandra Franzen
By and large, getting dumped is the best thing that could possibly happen to somebody in a relationship. Just think of all the wonderful things you can start doing again. You can stay out late or drink beer in the shower. You can even leave the toilet seat up like nature intended! At the end of the day, you're always better off alone. Satcha Guitry
This journey yo call your breakup is a corner you are turning. It is happening because it is supposed to happen. If it didn't, you would not want to improve yourself, your life, and your circumstances. Nancy Wylde
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave. James Salter