Getting Over A Breakup Quotes & Sayings

One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup ... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. — Steve Maraboli

Sheila taught me a survival technique for getting through seemingly intolerable situations-boring lunches, stern lectures on attitude or time management, those necessary breakup conversations, and the like: maintaining eye contact, keep your face inscrutable and masklike, with your faintest hint at a Gioconda smile. Keep this up as long as you possibly can, and just as you feel you are about to crack and take a letter opener and plunge it into someone's neck, fold your hands in your lap, one nestled inside the other, like those of a supplicant in a priory. Now, with the index finger of your inner hand, write on the palm of the other, very discreetly and undetectably, "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you ... " over and over again as you pretend to listen. You will find that this brings a spontaneous look of interest and pleased engagement to your countenance. Continue and repeat as necessary. — David Rakoff

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded. — Drake

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work. — Fanny Kemble

Prosperity is good,
happiness is better,
and health is the best. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain. — Susane Colasanti

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. — Hayao Miyazaki

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. — Drake

Because if anything can make death feel like a truly desirable alternative, it's getting dumped. — Melissa Kantor

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle

... MOM!" Martha finally screamed. "Mom, you've got to see these!"
"Is it about Hermione?" She exclaimed, rushing into the middle of the room. Her mouth dropped open in horror when she noticed Hermione's walls.
"I can't find any ... polite ... photos of her, mom."
"Why are there ones of her eating out of dumpsters and giving seniors the finger?"
"No idea," Martha replied.
"Oh god ... I'll get one out of my wallet," Her mom decided, hurrying out of the room frantically.
... It's funny how when one thing happens, it can make you forget about something else. — Rebecca McNutt

I cover my eyes with both hands. I think I'm either going to vomit or cry. At the moment, I can't decide which would make me feel better. I part my fingers to look at Matty. "It was only a few emails and texts."
"A few?"
"And maybe I showed up at ShopRite once or twice when he was getting off work.
"Good way to keep busy after a breakup. Hoping incarceration would fill those empty hours?" Matty says. — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

I don't know how long is too long, but I do know that your struggles don't make you weak or abnormal. They make you human. — Marcus Harrison Green

The source of pain in romantic relationships is the lack of awareness about men and women different intrinsic natures. — Linda Alfiori

That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. "You will always know where he is laid," one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive. — Ishmael Beah

The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page. — Shay Mitchell

Once you cry it out, it's supposed to vanish ... right? It's not true. It's just ... a little less.
It was the first chink in my brickwall. The wall was still there. And it was still made of bricks,but one, maybe two, had been torn down — Tijan

I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake. — Paris Hilton

Self-change can only come after self-understanding. — Rob R. Morris

Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things. — Frances Hardinge

I thought he was someone I wanted to know. As it turns out, it was a case of
mistaken identity. — Jodi Livon

When you become more spiritual, you can easily adjust to the loss of anyone significant in your life. — Linda Alfiori

Bradley would do best to remember this is why Taylor Swift wrote more breakup songs than the ones about getting a Happily Ever After — Kade Boehme

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker ... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems ... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home. — David Popenoe