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.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know— because once I wanted something and got it. F.Scott Fitzgerald
When two people to decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last begun to. Helen Rowland
How like a winter hath my absence been, / From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year. William Shakespeare
Though seas and lands betwixt us both, / Our faith and troth, / Like separated souls, / All time and space controls; / Above the highest sphere we meet / Unseen, unknown, and greet as angels greet. Richard Lovelace
For the sword outwears its sheath, / And the soul wears out the breast, / And the heart must pause to breathe, / And love itself have rest. George Gordon Lord Byron
There is a mountain and a wood between us, / Where the lone shepherd and late bird have seen us / Morning and noon and eventide repass. / Between us now the mountain and the wood / Seem standing darker than last year they stood, / And say we must not cross--alas! alas! Walter Savage Landor
And distance from the many women / he tried to love and failed / No matter how far he lived afield, / be it Paris, Havana, or Ketchum / In no place was there distance enough / or where his words could be safe. / The separation and memory loss / became deafening and finally too much / As he gave in to the distance / —one last and final time. Kurt Philip Behm
But still when all seems lost on earth / Then heaven sets a sign— / Kneel down beside your lonely bed, / And I will kneel by mine, / And let us pray for happy days— / Like those of long ago. / Ah! had we knelt together then / We’do not have parted so. Henry Lawson
We live our separate lives / And go our different ways / 'Cause we don't see eye to eye / And we can't stand face to face / We live our separate lives / While counting all the days / Till the two of us arrive / In another time and place. Alan Parsons
Through the mists of time, lovers can be friends. / The power of the human heart. / The secrets in the souls of men. / All my blessings in disguise. Robin Hugh Gibb
I'm going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I'm going to smile. Lone Star
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. Paulo Coelho
When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. Barney Stinson
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. Nora Ephron
I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. Carrie Brownstein
You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still, move on without them. Mandy Hale
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. Wizard of Oz
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger. Sara Evans
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran
Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars. Violeta Para
I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. Zsa Zsa Gabor