Funny Breakup Quotes

by Sarah Creagh Horth on October 27, 2009

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown


There is a good way to breakup with someone and it doesn’t include a post-it.

Carrie, Sex and the City


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.  Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katherine Hepburn


You know what is the worst thing about being rejected?  The lack of control.  If I could only control the where and how of being dumped, it wouldn’t seem as bad.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

How could I be sleeping with this peculiar man … Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Margaret Atwood.

Poor Mary Ann!  She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he’s a ruler.

Mae West


The problem with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then they marry him.

Cher

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Top 10 Breakup Quotes

by Sarah Creagh Horth on October 26, 2009

Here is my pick for the Top 10 Breakup Quotes – I’d love to hear what you have to say about the choice.  I’d love to get any off your favorite sad or angry breakup quotes  – you can contact me here.

10. I should have known he was no good.

Alicia – after a 2-year relationship that ended with him cheating on her


9.  A wounded deer – leaps highest.

Emily Dickinson


8.  Ah! I feel like death!  Great heaven, Have pity on me!

Violetta (seeing Alfredo at a party after breaking up with him), in La Traviata, by Verdi


7.  Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.  Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katherine Hepburn


6.  Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?

Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


5.  If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for
you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing
we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford


4.  Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson


3.  The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich


2.  I wish it was different, but I deserve better.

Cathy – on letting go


1.  Love never dies a natural death…It dies of blindness and errors
and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of
withering, of tarnishing.

Anais Nin


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Breakup Quotes: Everyday People

October 26, 2009

I should have known he was no good.
Alicia – after a 2-year relationship that ended with him cheating on her

I saw our relationship like a room filled with a balloon – more and more
it was filled with him, and I was just pressed up against the wall.
Sally – after ending a 6-month engagement with [...]

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Inspirational Quotes: After a Breakup

October 26, 2009

Adventure is worthwhile in itself

Amelia Earhart

If I observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.  And experience is the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

Hilary Rodham Clinton

Girls got [...]

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Quotes About Getting Over Someone

October 26, 2009

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as [...]

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Breaking Up Quotes

October 26, 2009

Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?
Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

This is the Hour of Lead-
Remember, if outlived,
As freezing persons, recollect the Snow-
First-Chill-then Stupor- then letting go-
Emily Dickinson

Since all things are subject to change, nothing exists in a permanent position, nothing is able [...]

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Angry Breakup Quotes

October 26, 2009

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
From Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
If you’re a woman living, you’ve been done wrong by a man.
Oprah Winfrey

And I’m here to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It’s not fair to deny me
Of the cross I bear that [...]

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Sad Breaking Up Quotes: The Classics

October 25, 2009

Love never dies a natural death…It dies of blindness and errors
and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of
withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.  I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.  The same fluttering in the stomach, the same [...]

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Sad Breakup Quotes

October 25, 2009

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