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English quotes about heartbreak

This is a collection of English quotes about heartbreak from around the world.

Words spoken by people who have gone through various experiences truly resonate, don’t they?

And even though each quote speaks of a sorrowful love, they’re so beautiful they sound like lines straight out of a movie.

English heartbreak quotes (1–10)

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist, and memoirist born in the state of Connecticut, USA.

Her words, “A wounded heart is a good sign.

It means you tried something,” evoke the idea that there is surely something that remains for yourself after love.

Let’s view heartbreak positively and keep moving forward.

The heart was made to be broken.Oscar Wilde

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The heart was made to be broken. — Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a poet, writer, and playwright from Ireland.

He is often described as a standard-bearer of fin-de-siècle literature, with its aestheticism, decadence, and skepticism.

Wilde, who left behind the words “The heart was made to be broken,” did not lead an easy life and seems to have lived with various torments.

His delicate heart must have broken and been mended many times over.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an American actress, television host and producer, and philanthropist.

The show she hosts has been acclaimed as the greatest talk show in American television history and has won numerous awards.

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Rather than continuing to carry your wounds as wounds and feeling depressed, her powerful words encourage us to use them positively as our assets.

English heartbreak quotes (11–20)

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.Ovid

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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. — Ovid

“When love becomes too heated, one soon grows bored of it.” The man who left these words, Ovid, was one of the earliest poets of imperial Rome.

Born at the end of the Republic, he composed his poetry in Rome as it enjoyed peace and prosperity under Emperor Augustus.

Indeed, perhaps love tends to become either long and slender, or thick and short.

Don’t forget to love yourself.Kierkegaard

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“Don’t forget to love yourself.” — Søren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and thinker.

Today he is generally regarded as the founder of existentialism, or its forerunner.

“Do not forget to love yourself.” These words teach us the importance of valuing ourselves—something we tend to forget when we are in love with someone.

Perhaps it is only by loving ourselves first that we can truly love others.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.Christopher Columbus

These are words attributed to the 15th-century Italian explorer Columbus: “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” If you stay hurt or shrink back and do nothing, you gain nothing.

This quote gives me the courage not to let the love before me slip away out of fear of heartbreak.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish. but that they cease to love.Somerset Maugham

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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — Somerset Maugham

Somerset Maugham, the British novelist and playwright, said, “The greatest tragedy in life is not that people die, but that they stop loving.” It’s said that even plants grow when spoken to kindly and wither when ignored.

I feel I can understand the idea that losing love is more serious than dying.