Brooke Olimpieri

37 Quotes When You Aren't Over Your Breakup Yet But Want To Be

Collection curated by Erin Cossetta
Jane Drinkard
June 20, 2016
“Never run for a bus, train, or man. When one leaves another arrives.”
— Anonymous, <3
Tagged: Chasing Love
“Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.”
— Jo Blackwell-Preston, Eve and Daughters
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”
— Warsan Sire, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.”
— Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I miss your smile… but I miss mine more.”
— Laurel House, YourTango
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I just need to ride out this minor humiliation until I find my Kanye.”
— Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight.”
— Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
— Unknown
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
— Paulo Coelho
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.”
— Stephen Dunn, Sixty
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
— Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.”
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Because You Deserve Love
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
— Guy Finley, The Secret Of Letting Go
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up… A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time… Life is about experiencing opposites isn’t it?”
— Laurel House, QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance---on a Less-Than-Fabulous Budget
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I deserve somebody who gives a shit.”
— Brooke Meyers, The Break-Up
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn’t plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I’ve never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.”
— Sloane Crosley
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger.”
— Sara Evans, A Little Bit Stronger
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
— Anaïs Nin
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don’t. It’s not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that amazing, certainly not the one who would pass you up.”
— Donna Lynn Hope
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“But most people don’t get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this one thing. This relationship is an impulse buy, and you’ll figure out if it’s worth it later.”
— Sloane Crosley, How Did You Get This Number
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. ”
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“You feel like telling him you’re not single in the way that he thinks you’re single. After all, you have yourself.”
— Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
— Anaïs Nin
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships