The ten most positive quotes on heartbreak

We have all been there. Experienced that one world-shattering moment. And as Jonathan Safran Foer would put it, we “have had our hearts broken into more pieces than our hearts were made of”. And though during such times, every consoling word by others sounds so clichéd, here are some quotes that give the adequate healing touch with a different perspective:

1. “I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.

That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it.

That if my heart
really broke

every time I fell from love,
I’d be able to offer you confetti by now.

But hearts don’t break, y’all,
they bruise and get better.

We were never tragedies.

We were emergencies.

You call 9 – 1 – 1.

Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”

— Buddy Wakefield – “We Were Emergencies”

2. “The purpose of life is not just to be happy. The purpose of life my love, is to feel. You must understand that your pain is essential.”

– Christopher Poindexter

3. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” – Rumi

4. “The cure for pain is in the pain.” – Rumi

5. “That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” – John Green

6. “After A While”

you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul

and you learn love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t always mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t always promises

and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and and your eyes ahead with the

grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.

And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain

for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone

to bring you flowers

And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong and you really do have

worth and you learn and you learn

with every good-bye you learn.

– Veronica A. Shoffstall

7. “People come, people go. They’ll drift in and out of your lives almost like characters in a favourite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures.” – Nicholas Sparks

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

9. I’m trying to get better because I haven’t been my best

She took a plain black marker, started writing on my chest

She drew a line across the middle of my broken heart,

And said: “Come on now, let’s fix this mess”

We could get better

Because we’re not dead yet.

―Frank Turner “Get better”

10. “Oh shut up. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal.

After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning

but still you choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever.

Not the good or the bad. So you might as well smile while you’re here.”

― Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Feeling better already, aren’t you?