Heartbreak Poems Quotes

“Love is the choice of creating sandcastles even if you knew it'll be washed away by the sea. It's the pursuit of building something so fragile because it makes you genuinely happy.”
― Bella Coronel, Chasing Dandelions: A Collection of Prose and Poetry

“Give me back my lips.
I meant to give you a kiss
but a kiss turned to a thousand,
and a thousand to thousands,
and now my lips have left with you.
Give me back my hands.
They only intended to caress you
but they held tight and have forgotten
even the very arms they belong to.
Give me back my mind.
Mind wasn’t even supposed to think of you
but you forced yourself into dreams,
and those dreams dreamed of your reality
and now mind is mindless —
less mine more yours.
Give me back to myself.
I miss my reflection
and who I was before I met you.
Before I eagerly and lovingly,
stupidly and foolishly
gave all of myself to you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I wake reaching for you,
fingers curling around nothing,
closing on air thick with absence.
You are not here, but my body does not believe it.
It still flinches at the shape of you,
at the memory of weight no longer there.
Somewhere beneath my skin,
you still exist.”
― Mason Carter, Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind

“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 22

You don't know love, till you've known heartbreak,
You won't know sight, till you've known blindness.
You don't know courage, till you've felt helpless,
You won't know light, till you've been in darkness.
Darkest clouds herald the brightest sunshine,
Direst circumstances make the bravest of character.
Heavier the rainfall, more breathtaking the rainbow,
Steeper the hill to climb, sweeter the summit vista.
Once your back is against the wall, only way is through,
You won't know integrity, till you are left in pieces.
Lose all identity, only then you'll know to be human,
You won't know wholeness, till you've felt nothingness.
More ominous the night, more spectacular the daybreak.
Till we're wiped out for a purpose, there’s no upliftment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Tonight my heart weeps on behalf of my eyes
a reluctant delegation of tears
like condensation on a window
on the verge of falling

Tonight I am a ruin
a castle made of sand
The tide has come to reclaim me
I am a mirage in a ghost's memory
already gone if I was ever here

Tonight I am the blood of the rose
squeezed and pressed in a child's hand
I am the moon without the sun
My light is dimming
and the moths have taken up residence
in my stomach where the butterflies once lived
It is dark and they are hungry

Tomorrow I will keep planting flowers in my soul
Winter will pass
They will bloom and the butterflies will return”
― Connor Judson Garrett, Become The Fool

“Sometimes pain is our greatest teacher. It's through those experiences that we learn our most important lessons.”
― Beverly Sade, Through Her Eyes Behind Her Smile

“As much joy as the heart can feel,
As much love as the heart can feel,
The heartbreak, the pain, the loss it can feel, seems to eclipse it all.
Starting at one end of the spectrum to the extreme other end.
Eye-opening it is when you realize how one may not comprehend the pang you feel at the thought of them.
When one doesn't see how bold it was for you to have given your heart to them in the first place.”
― Brenda Thornlow

“We were a song never given an ending,
a melody caught mid-breath,
hands frozen above the keys,
waiting for a resolution
that never arrived.”
― Mason Carter, Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind

“In another realm, perhaps,
We’d find our way,
You’d be mine,
and I’d be yours.

We’d stroll along shores
kissed by moonlight’s embrace,
You’d be my North Star,
guiding me through the night,
And I’d be the echo
of your whispered dreams.

In that alternate reality,
You’d have chosen me
above all else,
No room
for doubt or hesitation,
Our love would surpass
the limits of time.

Yet, in this lifetime,
I’ll bear the weight of this ache,
Though with each passing year,
Gratitude slowly finds its place.

For I cherish the thought,
The privilege of once being yours.”
― Marjory Qwen, From Scars to Stars: Pieces of a Healing Heart

“People often say that true love always finds its way back.

Yet, in the depths of my heart.
I hold the believe
that our love was indeed true.
Still, our paths, it seems,
are destined to remain parallel,
Never to converge again.
And so,
I release you to live in peace,
Knowing that what we shared
was indeed true love.

But true love doesn’t always mean it will come back.”
― Marjory Qwen, From Scars to Stars: Pieces of a Healing Heart