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Quotes About Breakup

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.
~ Robert Breault
You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certainty and a conviction in her voice and her face that left him fascinated and awed. Because guys, at least of his age, didn't have the confidence to make major decisions from their gut like that. They had to build a superstructure of rational thought on top of it. But not Zula. She didn't have to decide. She just had to pass on the news.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certainty and a conviction in her voice and her face that left him fascinated and awed. Because guys, at least of his age, didn't have the confidence to make major decisions from their gut like that. They had to build a superstructure of rational thought on top of it. But not Zula. She didn't have to decide. She just had to pass on the news.
~ Neal Stephenson
For most men, what's tougher than breaking up is the moment when their ex finally falls out of love with them and lets go, perhaps because it triggers a childhood fear—a psychological terror—of losing the first woman whose love they needed: their mother. And so, as Sheila would recommend, I let myself feel the pain, the loneliness, and the fear, using all my strength as the days pass to keep from giving in and reaching out to Ingrid.
~ Neil Strauss
I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
~ Scott Stapp
What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI's intent was, obviously, to break up the family.
~ Martin Luther King III
the first batch of ads just after the couple broke up, and the second just before they got together again...two moments that the sponsors considered so suspenseful that the listener wouldn't be able to step away from the radio for fear of missing the resolution.
~ Trevanian
We broke up because I was afraid.
~ Kyra Davis
When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.
~ Laine Moriarty
I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...
~ Cassandra Clare
Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.
~ Cassandra Clare
He broke up with me." "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box." "No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties.
~ Cassandra Clare
Clary's eyes widened. She wondered if she was about to be broken up with. If so, she would have a thing or two to say to Jace about his timing, after she drowned him in the lake.
~ Cassandra Clare
There is so much in this store I can picture Magnus wanting," Simon said, picking up a glass bottle of body glitter suspended in some kind of oil. "Is it against some kind of rule to buy presents for someone who broke up with your friend?" "I guess it depends. Is Magnus your closer friend, or Alec?" "Alec remembers my name," said Simon, and he set the bottle back down.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you break up with Alec, you will not only be losing one stone cold fox, but a family of foxes. I will pass down the word to my children's children. No Lightwood is ever going to so much as wink at you in a bar. Think about that. Think about being Lightwoodless and lonely five hundred years from now, in a sad and chilly nightclub on the moon.
~ Cassandra Clare
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
~ So break up with him.
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
~ Catherine Helen Spence
Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now.
~ Glen Duncan
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
~ James Baldwin
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
~ John Niven
Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining power of whichever spouse is more interested in continuing the relationship. And the breakup of such marriages has caused pain for many families.
~ Stephanie Coontz
My first breakup happened when I was in standard 9th. I remember being very lost, and for me, it was like the end of the world, and I will never find another girl.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur