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Break Up Quotes

Honest lines on parting ways and moving forward.

These break up quotes acknowledge how painful splitting from someone can be, especially when the fallout plays out in public view rather than in private. Related themes appear in our Life quotes.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

Quotes by Adam Rickitt

James Goldsmith is important because he used the power of the markets to break up the cosy patrician elite that ran Britain and its industries in the 1950s and '60s. In the process, Goldsmith helped transfer power in this country...

Quotes by Adam Curtis

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Abraham Lincoln

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Abraham Lincoln

Break Quotes

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the...

Quotes by Vera Brittain

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

Quotes by Stevie Nicks

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Steve Martin

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

Quotes by Steve Ballmer

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

Quotes by Shia LaBeouf

Go Quotes

A lot of women reach out to me and tell me my music has given them the courage and confidence to break up with not just any boyfriend, but an unhealthy relationship.

Quotes by Saweetie

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

Quotes by Sam Palladio

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

Quotes by Rosemary Clooney

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

Quotes by Rita Rudner

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all...

Quotes by Ringo Starr

Great Quotes

Our relationship was one of the things that helped break up my first marriage. Miss Loren was always phoning me, and I'd go rushing all over Italy to be with her.

Quotes by Peter Sellers

It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny.

Quotes by Peter Dinklage

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

Quotes by Nigel Farage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Quotes by Morton Hunt

The undocumented should pay penalties for the laws they broke by coming here, but we should remember that the founding fathers were willing to break up an empire to achieve their dreams.

Quotes by Mazie Hirono

Life Quotes

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

Quotes by Matt LeBlanc

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these break up quotes focus on?
They focus on the emotional difficulty of ending a relationship, plus how public attention can make it even harder.
Is there a quote about breakups being harder for public figures?
Yes, one line notes that breakups are already hard, but being documented publicly with pictures everywhere adds extra strain.
Do any quotes address marriage or divorce specifically?
Yes, one quote reflects on a couple whose official divorce reasons masked a deeper personal disagreement between them. For related themes, see our Life quotes.
Is there a quote about how teenagers experience breakups?
Yes, one line describes teens imagining their breakup like a movie scene, complete with an emotional soundtrack in their head.
Does the collection mention breaking apart something other than a relationship?
Yes, one quote uses "break up" in a different sense, discussing separating a large group into smaller parts. Continue exploring with our Break quotes.

One line even captures how teenagers can turn a split into their own personal movie scene, soundtrack included. Browse more with our Great and Go quotes.