Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best."
Breakup quotes
Breakup
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Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"The heart will break, but broken live on."
Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it."
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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
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"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
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"No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her."
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"Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships."
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"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
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"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode."
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"The way you walk, that's me The way you talk, that's me The way you got your hair up, did you forget that's me? & the voice in the speaker right now, that's me, that's me & the voice in your ear, that's me"
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"A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life."
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"You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been."
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"He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived."
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"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
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"All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go."
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"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
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"I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out."
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"I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."
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"I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets"
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"Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them."
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
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"Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that"
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