Greg Raines

30 Quotes For Those Who Have Given Up On Love

I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted. 
Rania Naim
October 3, 2016
“Broken hearts — if used wisely and compassionately — are absolutely necessary for spreading the fire of love.See, when your heart breaks open, all the love that has been hidden and buried within it for years has the opportunity to now spill forth — and to cover everyone around you with love...and also to spread itself across the world, in wave after wave of love and grace and humanity.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, DISCOVERING FIRE FOR THE SECOND TIME...
Tagged: Broken Hearts, Sadness, Heartbreak, Love, Hearts, Compassion
“I wonder if I’ll keep trying to fix all the people who are already unfixable. I wonder if I’ll keep cutting myself trying to put their shattered pieces together. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that they won’t stop me from bleeding when they are the ones who keep slashing my veins.”
— Rania Naim, I Wonder If I’ll Ever Stop Loving The Wrong People
Tagged: Rania Naim, Thought Catalog, Love, Loving The Wrong People, Fixing People, Heartbreak
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love 
with someone who is in love with someone else. 
I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Untitled
Tagged: Spilled Ink, Poetry, Love, Heartbreak, Break Up, Unrequited Love, Pain
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public affection left. And now everyone else I ever love is going to think me boring. Because I used it all up on you. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: romance, Love, Romantic, Relationships, Heartbreak, Falling In Love, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Broken Heart, Pain, Heartbreak
“It hurts that I can be so full of him while he’s so empty of me.”
— David Levithan, Another Day
Tagged: Sad, Heartbreak, Break Up, Emptiness
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Love, Dating
“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
“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, The Single Woman
Tagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Settling
“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
“I deserve somebody who gives a shit.”
— Brooke Meyers, The Break-Up
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“she gave all
that she had
she tried
when you didn't
and she'll walk away knowing
that in the end
you were not worthy
of her love.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“i tried
you didn't
i left.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey, Words, and A Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night.”
— Dannika Dark, Seven Years
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, boys
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
— Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
Tagged: Growing Up, True Believer, Moving On, Forever, Lost Relationships, Heartbreak, Best Of Sparks
“the hard part is pretending
not to give a fuck when you
really do. the worst part is
trying to close your heart
when its doors have been blown
to pieces.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Heartbreak, Heartbroken, R.M Drake, Give A Fuck
“Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash. And sometimes it can leave nothing.”
— Megan Hart, Tempted
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Breakups
“All I wanted was to crush him with my words. As if my words had the power to remove my pain and make us even.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“I poured my heart out to you. I can’t sit here like a fool waiting for you to be ready.”
— Angela Moore, Boy Meets World Complete Series
Tagged: Heartbreak, heart, Love, Relationships, Relationships Ending, goodbye
“It is obvious that you and I will never be, anything close to what we were, and everything we could have been.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love
“you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once

-when you ask if we can still be friends”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Just Friends, Relationships Ending, goodbye
“Because of you, I never stray too far from the sidewalk. Because of you, I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt. Because of you, I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me. Because of you, I am afraid.”
— Kelly Clarkson, Because Of You
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Song Lyrics
“No one misses until you walk away, no one appreciates until you're gone.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Walking Away, Moving On
“Hell on earth will always be trying to maintain a relationship with someone who is too weak to remain loyal to the idea of a forever with you.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Modern Love, Loyalty
“The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore.”
— Rania Naim, The Art Of Letting Go
Tagged: Letting Go, Fate, Destiny
“I’m tired of falling for the ones who care less, the ones who are not serious, the ones who think I’m only good for a certain amount of time but not forever and I’m tired of falling for the ones who make me feel like it’s my fault.”
— Rania Naim, I Don’t Usually Give Up But I’m Giving Up On Love
Tagged: hearbreak, Giving Up, Love
“It doesn’t make sense to keep getting heartbroken when all we wanted to do was love. That we show our best to someone so they can show us their worst. That the more we like someone, the more they ignore us. That the moment you’re ready for love, it eludes you.”
— Rania Naim, I Don’t Usually Give Up But I’m Giving Up On Love
Tagged: hearbreak, Giving Up, Love