Breakup Quotes - Page 14

• You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

  Plum Sykes

  Break Up, Real, Hotel

  Plum Sykes (2007). “Bergdorf Blondes: A Novel”, Miramax Books

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• The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

  Greg Behrendt

  Feel Better, About Yourself, Feels

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.33, Harmony

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• Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Pain, Life Changing

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2009). “It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

  James A. Baldwin

  Dream, Real, Loss

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Writing, Voice

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Passion, People

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 217, 1910.

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• What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.

  Amy Chan

  Choices, Growth, Forgiving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, Flower, Lunch

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• [Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.

  Paolo Giordano

  Break Up, Empty Rooms, Leaving

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• I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

  Nick Hornby

  Break Up, Real, Love You

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• Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.

  Drake

  Real, Heart, Boys

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• I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

  Nicki Minaj

  Given, Feels

  Song: Catch Me, Album: Gold

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• I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall

  Nicki Minaj

  Fall, Thinking, Given

  Song: Catch Me, Album: Gold

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• The "natural" instincts when someone is going through a breakup are counterintuitive to healing. For instance, many people stop eating or eat very unhealthy, and if your body is not fed the necessary nutrients during this trying time, it's extremely difficult for you to heal emotionally. So, first things first, force yourself to eat, even if that entails drinking green smoothies so you're getting nutrients in your body.

  Amy Chan

  Drinking, Healing, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry with me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves me or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.

  Lydia Davis

  Doe, Want, Matter

  Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sweet, Lying, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Choices, Partners, Strings

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• Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

  Tom Perrotta

  Dark, Light, House

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

  Philip Roth

  Beautiful, Thinking, Forgive Me

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• You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Point Break, Fighter, Take Time

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin

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• Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.

  André Aciman

  Dream, Party, Leaving

  André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.

  Armistead Maupin

  Beautiful, Love You, Home

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• As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Running, Achievement, Landmarks

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• Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.

  Toni Morrison

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Drama, Dysfunction

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