300+ Heart-Touching Hurt Quotes That Will Comfort You

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Reading hurt quotes when you feel like you have hit the wall can help you build self-confidence and get through the adversaries. Many difficult times may come in our lives, such as going through heartbreak, losing a loved one, or having relationship issues. We need to take a break during such situations, gather ourselves together, process our emotions, let go of the extra baggage of emotions and sufferings, and move on with our lives. Though it may not sound so easy, we can still do it. Sitting back and reliving those moments of hurt will not do any good. Read on for some sayings and hurt quotes that will help you move on to a new journey in life and make better decisions.

300+ Hurt Quotes And Being Hurt Sayings

These famous quotes of anguish and despair might be just a bunch of words but they are also a ray of hope to minimize your pain and sadness.

1. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley

2. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri

3. “Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.” ― Holly Black

4. “Sometimes we want what we couldn’t, sometimes we love what we could.” ― Lang Leav

5. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin

6. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks

7. “A person in pain is being spoken to by that part of himself that knows only how to communicate this way.” ―Malidoma Patrice Somé

8. “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.” ―Jonathan Safran Foer

9. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” ― Richard Puz

10. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” ― Alysha Speer

11. “Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche

12. “Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside.” ―Thich Nhat Hanh

13. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”― Carroll Bryant

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14. “When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain.” ― Louise Penny

15. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi

16. “Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.” ― Judith McNaught

17. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” ― Mineko Iwasaki

18. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi

19. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” ― J.K. Rowling

20. “When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…” ― Nina Guilbeau

21. “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” ―C.S. Lewis

22. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe

23. “You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.“ — John Green

24. “The heart will break, but broken live on.” — Lord Byron

25. “The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.” — Margaret George

26. “When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut — it will heal, but there will always be a scar.“ — Soo Jie

27. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

28. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” — Steve Maraboli

29. “I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” — H.C. Paye

30. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” — Faraaz Kazi

31. “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.” — Coco J. Ginger

32. “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts

33. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” — Jean De La Fontaine

34. “It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” — Sara Teasdale

35. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – Rumi

36. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” — Ella Harper

37. “Perhaps someday I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” — Sylvia Plath

38. Out of difficulties grow miracles. – Jean de La Bruyère

39. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” ― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

40. The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. – Morris Mandel

41. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” — Socrates

42. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green

43. The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. – Native American Proverb

44. “Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson, 809

45. “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.” – Aubrey Drake Graham

46. “In the depths of sorrow we will eventually find an unwavering light.” – Unknown

47. “Never let a bad person change your inner goodness.” – Karen Salmansohn

48. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain

49. “Note to heart: Don’t keep running back to the person you should be walking away from.” – Karen Salmansohn

50. “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving

51. “The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.” – Allen Klein

52. “I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real.” ― Johnny Cash

53. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” — Unknown

54. “It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.” ― Katie Ashley

55. “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” ― Aman Jassal

56. “The end of love looks like the beginning of war.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

57. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” ― George R. R. Martin

58. “One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.” ― Marty Rubin

59. “The heart was made to be broken.” ― Oscar Wilde

60. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” ― Stephen King

61. “People who wrong others for no good reason tend to keep at it until they finish the job.” ―Thucydides

62. “If you didn’t remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn’t?” ―Jodi Picoult

63. “Things that break – be they bones, hearts, or promises – can be put back together but will never really be whole.” ― Jodi Picoult

64. “There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” ―Alan Watts

65. “Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” ― Havelock Ellis

66. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ― Lena Horne

67. “We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.” ― Ajahn Chah

68. “That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways.” ―Chuck Palahniuk

69. “The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.” ―Paulo Coelho

70. “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” ―Michel de Montaigne

71. “The worst loss you’ve ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.” ― Byron Katie

72. “What if the worst thing that happened to you turns out to be the best thing that has ever happened to you?” ― Dr. Joe Dispenza

73. “Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less” ― J.A. Redmerski

74. “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”― Natsuki Takaya

75. “Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?” ― Lady Gaga

76. “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”― Jennifer E. Smith

77. “If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

78. “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

79. “A wounded deer leaps highest.” — Emily Dickinson

80. “Your experience of grief is powerful, yet so is your ability to love and heal.“ – Unknown

81. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them … but still move on without them.” — Mandy Hale

82. “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

83. “A broken heart does not mean you are broken. The crack is there to let the light in.” – Unknown

84. “I thought when love for you died, I should die. It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.” – Rupert Brooke

85. “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux

86. “A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.” — T.E. Kalem

87. “Love is unconditional. Relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmunson

88. “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.” – Sienna Miller

89. “I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life, and it’s part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.” – Heidi Klum

90. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”– Steve Maraboli

91. “The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.” – Mary Kay Andrews

92. “When life seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”– Kid Cudi

93. “There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.” — Anne Wilson Schaef

94. “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard

95. “It’s not a matter of letting go – you would if you could. Instead of ‘Let it go,’ we should probably say ‘Let it be.’” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

96. “Change has to come for life to struggle forward.” – Helen Hollick

97. “Don’t waste your time looking back at what you lost. Move on, life is not meant to be traveled backward.” – Unknown

98. “When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.” – Unknown

99. “Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…” – Hal Tipper

100. “We only said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times. You go back to her, and I go back to black.” — Amy Winehouse

101. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Shannon L Alder

102. “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” — Miss Piggy

103. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as if it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” — Meredith Taylor, Churning Water

104. Sometimes you have to go through the worst to get to the best. – Unknown

105. “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

106. “I think heartbreak is something you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.” — Kate Winslet

107. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

108. “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.” — William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

109. “Back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.” — Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

110. The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. – Unknown

111. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

112. Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth. – Unknown

113. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – Maya Angelou

114. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

115. “My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.“ — Pablo Neruda

116. “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.“ — Andrea Gibson

117. “The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” — W. Somerset Maugham

118. Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

119. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll

120. “We’d always go into it blindly. I needed to lose you to find me. This dance, it was killing me softly. I needed to hate you to love me.” — Selena Gomez, “Lose You to Love Me“

121. The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about. – Unknown

122. 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 those depths. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

123. Every storm runs out of rain. – Maya Angelou

124. The pain of yesterday is the strength of today. – Paulo Coelho

125. “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” ― Willie Nelson

126. “Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever.” ― Shane Parrish

127. “Stop running from pain. Pain is here to teach you something.” ― Justin Kan

128. “We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love.” ― Gabby Bernstein

129. “I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.” ― J. D. Salinger

130. “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

131. “Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.” ― Siri Hustvedt

132. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” ― Lucius Annaneus Seneca

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133. “Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.” ― Kathryn Perez

134. “Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.” ―Antonio Suhuba-Baruti

135. “I can feel the hurt. There’s something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.” ― Albert Borris

136. “When a girl gives up, it’s not because she doesn’t love you. But she’s tired of getting hurt and feels like you’ll never care.” ― Justice Cabral

137. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” ―Edgar Allan Poe

138. “Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.” ― Henepola Gunaratana

139. “The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.” ― Jordan Peterson

140. “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.” ―Marcus Aurelius

141. “So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.” ―Marcus Aurelius

142. “Many things cause pain which would cause pleasure if you regarded their advantages.” ― Baltasar Gracián

143. “The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.” ― Mark Manson

144. “Just because someone serves you a bad meal, does not mean you have to eat it.” ― George Raveling

145. “If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it.” ― Neil Strauss

146. “Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” ― Hermann Hesse

147. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” ―Oprah Winfrey

148. “Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t.” ― Charlie Munger

149. “No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” ― Birister Sharma

150. “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love.” ―Clive Barker

151. “If it hurts it’s probably doing you good. If it’s pleasant, it’s most likely wrong.” ―John Graves

152. “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.” ―Criss Jami

153. “We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ―Dalai Lama

154. “Love’s wounds may leave scars, but those scars are a testament to the strength of the heart that endured.” ―Anonymous

155. “You will never know the power in yourself until someone hurts you badly.” ―Daryl G. Weinman

156. “You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another’s hurtful actions.” ―Henry Cloud

157. “I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.” ―Julia Roberts

158. “One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.” ―Marty Rubin

159. “The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” ―Max Lerner

160. “When love hurts, it’s as though the stars have fallen from the sky, leaving us lost in the darkness of our own emotions.” ―Anonymous

161. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ―Mother Teresa

162. “A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.” ―Will Rogers

163. “The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.” ―William Shakespeare

164. “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” ―Rosa Parks

165. “When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” ―Jane Austen

166. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life, that word is love.” ―Sophocles

167. “There ain’t no room for things to change when we’re both so deeply stuck in our ways. You can’t deny how hard I’ve tried. I changed who I was to put you both first, but now I give up.” — Adele, “Easy On Me“

168. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about. – Haruki Murakami

169. Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased. – Joel Osteen

170. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. – Voltaire

171. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis

172. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

173. The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. – Shannon L. Alder

174. “I thought that I’d been been hurt before but no one’s ever left me quite this sore. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to breathe me back to life.” — Shawn Mendes, “Stitches”

175. When life gets tough, remember that you are tougher. – Unknown

176. Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence. – Herodotus

177. “Since you’ve gone I’ve been lost without a trace. I dream at night, I can only see your face.” — The Police, “Every Breath You Take”

178. “You were red and you liked me cause I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn’t for you.“ — Halsey, “Colors“

179. “Loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.” — Lauryn Hill, “Ex-Factor“

180. “The scars of your love remind me of us. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all.” — Adele, “Rolling in the Deep“

181. “Why’d you have to say goodbye? Look what you’ve done to me. I can’t stop these tears from fallin’ from my eyes.” — Mary J. Blige, “I’m Goin’ Down“

182. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do; it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Rikki Rogers

183. Every setback is a setup for a comeback. – Joel Osteen

184. “All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me.“ — Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball”

185. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

186. “It turns out freedom ain’t nothin’ but missin’ you. Wishin’ I’d realized what I had when you were mine.” — Taylor Swift, “Back to December”

187. “In another life I would make you stay, so I don’t have to say you were the one that got away.” — Katy Perry, “The One That Got Away“

188. “Tell me the truth boy, am I losing you for good? We used to kiss all night, but now there’s just no use.“ — Solange, “Losing You“

189. “I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can’t be you?”― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

190. “I don’t think anyone can give you advice when you’ve got a broken heart.“ ― Britney Spears

191. We only said goodbye with words. I died a hundred times. You go back to her, and I go back to black.” — Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black”

192. “But if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you though. I remember everyone that leaves.” — Lilo, Lilo & Stitch

193. You are the author of your own story, and every setback is just another plot twist. – Unknown

194. When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine. – Unknown

195. “The worst feeling in the world is when you can’t love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it.” – Unknown

196. Your struggles today will become your strength tomorrow. – Unknown

197. “I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore.” – Marguerite Duras

198. “I gave you my heart, I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces.” – Unknown

199. “Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else’s brokenness.” – Munia Khan

200. The darkest nights produce the brightest stars. – Unknown

201. “You left with my soul in your fists and my heart in your teeth, and I don’t want either of them back.” – Colleen Hoover

202. “You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.“ – Stelle Atwater

203. “What a painful thing to taste forever in the eyes of someone who doesn’t see the same.” – Anonymous

204. “The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone when you’ve made them your eternity.” – Sanober Khan

205. “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” – D. H. Lawrence

206. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

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207. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” ―Bob Dylan

208. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” ―Joseph Campbell

209. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” ―Tony Robbins

210. “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” ―José N. Harris

211. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ―Ovid

212. “Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.” ―Jennifer Brown

213. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi

214. “When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.” ―Kahlil Gibran

215. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ―Khalil Gibran

216. “The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.” ―Bell Hooks

217. “If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.” ―Angela Duckworth

218. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” ―Bo Bennett

219. “You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.” ―Joel Osteen

220. “Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering.” ―Neil Strauss

221. “There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.”―Fred Rogers

222. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.” ―Charlie Munger

223. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ―William W. Purkey

224. “Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in your heart that only love can fill.” ―George Bernard Shaw

225. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” ―Orson Welles

226. “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ― Henry David Thoreau

227. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” ― Mother Teresa

228. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude” ―. Warsan Shire

229. “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen

230. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau

231. “When you’re feeling lost, take heart. It’s just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.” ― Josh Kaufman

232. “No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.” ―Joyce Rupp

233. “If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.” – Brian MacLearn

234. The pain you feel is the love you gave. It’s a sign that you cared. – Unknown

235. Every ending is a new beginning; we just don’t know it at the time. – Mitch Albom

236. “I understand it, but I don’t like it. I wish we could all be together like before: best friends, not heartbroken strangers.” – Unknown

237. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” – Michel Foucault

238. “Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch.” – Jack Thorne

239. You are not defined by your scars; you are defined by how you’ve healed. – Unknown

240. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. The death of a beloved is an amputation.“ – C.S. Eliot

241. When you’re in a dark place, you sometimes tend to think you’ve been buried. Perhaps you’ve been planted. Bloom. – Unknown

242. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.“ – Mahatma Gandhi

243. “Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind.” – William Wordsworth

244. “Grief is a journey that leaves us changed forever. So don’t run from it or hide from it. Embrace it and let it change you.” – Unknown

245. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” – Antoine de Saint– Exupéry

246. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.“ – Thomas Campbell

247. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.” – Comte de Bussy– Rabutin

248. “There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.” —Diane Warren

249. “All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss.” —Taylor Swift

250. “And it’s hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound.” —Taylor Swift

251. “You never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t.” —Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

252. Bad things happen, but you have to move past it. Leave it behind. The sooner, the better. Or it’ll eat away at you and stop you from moving forward.” —Miranda Bailey, Grey’s Anatomy

253. “When the sun goes down, and the band won’t play, I’ll always remember us this way.” —Lady Gaga

254. “Falling, falling, needed something to believe in. Oh, I thought you were the one.” — Ariana Grande

255. “If little by little you stop loving me, I shall stop loving you. Little by little.” —Pablo Neruda

256. Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence. – Herodotus

257. “I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.” —Ellen DeGeneres

258. “We’re all walking around with broken hearts. I can’t even tell what is mine anymore.”―Sarah Bahbah

259. “How am I supposed to close the door when I still need the closure?” ―Sabrina Carpenter

260. “Come back and bring back my smile. Come and take these tears away.” ―Toni Braxton

261. “Once upon a different life, we rode our bikes into the sky. But now we crawl against the tide, those distant days are flashing by.” ―James Bay

262. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

263. “I gave your nickname to someone else…. I miss the feeling of you missing me.“ —Drake

264. “I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly.” —Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail

265. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” —Jack Twist, Brokeback Mountain

266. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A.A. Milne

267. “I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” — Nick Mercer, The Wedding Date

268. “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” ― Maimonides

269. “When you are directionless like we are right now, people are looking for something to hang their hat on.” ―John Pickett

270. “I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.” ―Margaret Fuller

271. “Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.” ―Alain De Botton

272. “It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still looking for that.” ― Michelle Williams

273. “You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.” ―Bob Parsons

274. “Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” ― Lord Byron

275. “My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.” ―Olive Schreiner

276. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” ―Bess Myerson

277. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ―J. K. Rowling

278. “You are my sweetest downfall. I loved you first, I loved you first.” ―Regina Spektor

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279. “It’s funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word. We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard.” ―Sarah McLachlan

280. “I will wait for you till the day I can forget you or till the day you realize you cannot forget me.” ― Herryicm

281. “Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.” ― Faraaz Kazi

282. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ―Kahlil Gibran

283. “Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.” ― Merle Shain

284. “To love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” ―G.K. Chesterton

285. “How do you know that love is gone? If you said you would be there by seven, you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet—it’s gone.” ―Marlene Dietrich

286. “Love without return is like a question without an answer.” ―Alfred Lord Tennyson

287. “Love is unconditional, relationships are not.” ― Grant Gudmundson

288. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.” ― Steve Martin

289. “So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.” ―Robert Brault

290. “In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.” ― Wayne W. Dyer

291. “Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.” ―Charles Caleb Colton

292. “The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.” ―Tigress Luv

293. “Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.” ―Adam Brody

294. “If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it’s a sign and time to step out.” ―Anthony Liccione

295. “We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways – the ways we react and behave when we love someone.” ―John Gray

296. “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” ―Oprah Winfrey

297. “There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” ― Harry Crews

298. “When I’m feeling weak and my pain walks down a one-way street, I look above and I know I’ll always be blessed with love.” ― Ray Heffernan

299. “I’m sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.” ―Leon Redbone

300. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ―Ernest Hemingway

301. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.” ―Johnny Depp

302. “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” ― Doug Fetherling

303. “After your breakup, go through life slowly and stay true to what you need in each moment.” ― Lesley Robins

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