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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.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

Quotes by Margot Robbie

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.

Quotes by Malcolm Nance

Girls groups tend to break up more because sometimes it's hard for women to get along. And everybody is like, 'They're breaking up over silly stuff.' That's not the silly thing to me - to break up. The silly part...

Quotes by Lisa Lopes

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.

Quotes by Linda Thompson

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole...

Quotes by Lakhdar Brahimi

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

Quotes by King Tuff

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a...

Quotes by Kenneth Lonergan

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Quotes by Kenneth C. Griffin

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Quotes by Kenneth C. Griffin

My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.

Quotes by Kenneth C. Griffin

Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

Quotes by Katie Holmes

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Quotes by Joichi Ito

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had...

Quotes by Jo Durie

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there...

Quotes by Jesse Jackson

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

I had friendships with two people in my life who, when I attempted to do my habitual behavior of building a case to break up with them, wouldn't allow me to do it. They both said to me, 'I'm not...

Quotes by Jane Lynch

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.

Quotes by Jane Ridley

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American...

Quotes by James Laughlin

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Quotes by Iain Duncan Smith

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.