How Do You Know It’s The End Of A Relationship?

When you are committed to your partner, life feels beautiful. However, if you have started feeling like you would be better off alone, it’s time to end the relationship. A relationship could end due to various reasons – fading of love, cheating, abuse, etc. This does not make the breakup process easy though! Ending a long, loving relationship is never easy. It makes you feel empty, heartbroken, and in intense pain at times. But, it is the best thing you can do for not only your own mental health but also for your partner. Love and heartbreak have been around since time immemorial, and many literary greats and prominent personalities have waxed poetic about it. Check out what wisdom they had to impart about the end of a relationship below.

101 Best End Of A Relationship Quotes

  1. “The heart was made to be broken.”– Oscar Wilde
  2. “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”– Alfred Lord Tennyson
  3. “I think the universe meant for us to let go and just start something new with another person.” – Anonymous
  4. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
  5. “It takes bravery to end a relationship.” – Leona Lewis
  6. “I think that the best thing that I have learned from you is that I can still survive after you too.” – Anonymous
  7. “Some people will leave you soon no matter how, but it’s not the ending of your story, it’s just the ending of their role in your story. ‘Cause life goes on, and you should just expect damage from others.” – Marouane LAASSAFAR
  8. “Lies don’t end relationships. Usually, the truth does…” – Anonymous
  9. “You may not push me away, but you’re not fighting to keep me either.” – Anonymous
  10. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” – Robert Benchley
  11. “And in the end, all I learned was how to be strong alone.” – Anonymous
  12. “You cannot start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last.” – Anonymous
  13. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.”- Bette Davis
  14. “After your breakup, go through life slowly and stay true to what you need in each moment.” – Lesley Robins
  15. “Love is unconditional, relationships are not.” – Grant Gudmundson
  16. “One of the saddest things about ending a relationship is losing your best friend.” – Anonymous
  17. “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” – Victoria Holt
  18. “Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  19. “You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.” – Anonymous
  20. “Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.” – Charles Caleb Colton
  21. “Sometimes you have to forget what you want in order to remember what you deserve.” – Anonymous
  22. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
  23. “If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it’s a sign and time to step out.” – Anthony Liccione
  24. “Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.” – Sarah Mlynowski
  25. “The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.” – Tigress Luv
  26. “Your heart breaks when you find a love that is not for you, so just let love find you.” – Anonymous
  27. “If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.” – Christopher Morley
  28. “If you are not sure where you stand with someone, then it might be time to start walking.” – Anonymous
  29. “If your love broke apart when you least expected it to, maybe it was meant to break apart.” – Anonymous
  30. “We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways – the ways we react and behave when we love someone.” – John Gray
  31. “It was a great thing that I was with you, but now it must come to an end, we must forget it.” – Anonymous
  32. “I wish I could have known that we would still end this so I could have saved myself as well.” – Anonymous
  33. “I was wondering when it would be, our end of relationship. But now here we are, both hurt.” – Anonymous
  34. “Look and see and realize that the world is better without him in it, you were right to end it.” – Anonymous
  35. “People try to find the best things with the wrong people only to end up failing so badly too.” – Anonymous
  36. “Even the best things in this life can fall apart as we are now.” – Anonymous
  37. “I thought I was strong holding on to you, but I am stronger now letting you go.” – Anonymous
  38. “Though our relationship has ended, I still love you all the same, it was worth it all.” – Anonymous
  39. “I still think that one day, someone will help me prove that love can last for a lifetime.” – Anonymous
  40. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
  41. “The thing is that love eventually dies if the flame is not kept tended to, and that is truly sad.” – Anonymous
  42. “Maybe we were never meant for each other, we were just meant to be a lesson to one another.” – Anonymous
  43. “We must celebrate this moment, though it is hard, that we are finally free from what we had.” – Anonymous
  44. “It is sad when a relationship fails, but it is better to know it early on than later after marriage.” – Anonymous
  45. “Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won’t be an end.” – Tony Robbins
  46. “To meet, to know, to love and then to part, is the sad tale of many a heart.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  47. “The end that we had was not the greatest, but it taught me a great deal, that is the truth.” – Anonymous
  48. “Though what we had has ended, our life hasn’t, so let us go out there and find new love for us.” – Anonymous
  49. “What we had was magical, it was beautiful, and yet here we are at the end of our relationship, girl.” – Anonymous
  50. “I will live my life, even without you here by my side. That is the path I must take from now on.” – Anonymous
  51. “There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.” – Anonymous
  52. “You would not believe this but someday, you will realize that ending it was better for us.” – Anonymous
  53. “I need to tell you that we must stop what we have before it becomes more and more toxic.” – Anonymous
  54. “When we try to save something that is already dead, we will fail miserably.” – Anonymous
  55. “We all deserve to be with someone who makes us happy, not someone who makes us miserable.” – Anonymous
  56. “One of the most unfortunate realities of heartbreak is that our ‘natural’ responses often do us more harm than good.” – Guy Winch
  57. “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” – Oprah Winfrey
  58. “So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.” – Robert Brault
  59. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own death until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
  60. “This marks the end, and as much as I hate it, we must both accept that this is for the better.” – Anonymous
  61. “I wish we never got here to the end of our relationship, but it is something that we must do for us both.” – Anonymous
  62. “In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.” – Wayne Dyer
  63. “It is better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.” – Anonymous
  64. “Relationships end too soon because people stop putting the same effort to keep you as they did to win you.” – Anonymous
  65. “One of the reasons why relations end is because one is doing everything to save it, and the other is finding every way to end it.” – Anonymous
  66. “Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.” – Adam Brody
  67. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale
  68. “In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” – Robert Brault
  69. “End the relationships and cry once. Believe me, it’s better than being with them and crying daily…” – Chandramoy Indu
  70. “Just because a relationship ended doesn’t mean two people stopped loving each other. They just stopped hurting each other.” – Anonymous
  71. “Relationships are never a waste of time. They might fail to bring you what you want, but they end up teaching you what you don’t want.” – Anonymous
  72. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. But people do often spend more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.” – Steve Martin
  73. “Until you let go of all the toxic people in your life, you will never be able to grow to your fullest potential. Let them go so you can grow.” – Anonymous
  74. “Stop looking at the end of a relationship as a failure. Leaving it behind can be a courageous choice – and an opportunity for you to be honest and authentic.” – Georgia Kolias
  75. “Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.” – Wiston Auden
  76. “A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.” – Dave Matthews Band
  77. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” – Anais Nin
  78. “Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!” – Shannon L. Alder
  79. “The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it’s as simple as that.” – Ashly Lorenzana
  80. “And maybe, for now, a happy ending doesn’t include a relationship. Maybe it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just…moving on.” – Anonymous
  81. “When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.” – Shannon L. Alder
  82. “Going through a breakup is actually very similar to grieving a death. You’re grieving the loss of someone you love and learning to live life without them by your side.” – Samantha Burns
  83. “We had more in common than I thought we did. You were my priority. You were your priority.” – Kate McGahan
  84. “Oh, it was meant to be. It just wasn’t meant to last.” – Kate McGahan
  85. “Even if you initiated your split, you are going to be overcome with interminable sorrow. You are not only mourning the loss of someone significant in your life, but saying farewell to your dreams of an eternity together.” – Rachel Sussman
  86. “You’ll slowly start seeing life beyond the breakup, and eventually life won’t be about the breakup at all.” – Lesley Robins
  87. “None of us knew how terribly these two fine people suffered in secret. I do not think that they ever stopped loving each other, but deep down in their nature they did not belong to one another.” – Hermann Hesse
  88. “Ending something doesn’t have to be filled with regret, anger, or negativity. We have experiences and memories that serve a purpose.” – Omar Lee
  89. “The mother loved me, the sister loved me, the father loved me, IT COULD’VE BEEN PERFECT!” – Mariah Carey
  90. “It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.” – Abigail Thomas
  91. “When things aren’t going your way, like during this breakup, you must fight for your own happiness. If you keep looking on the outside for validation, especially from a man, you will lose.” – Lesley Robins
  92. “I’m here and I’m there, couldn’t see past the end of my beer, at what was getting near or the silence after the cheers.” – Mike Skinner
  93. “Ending a long-term relationship is extremely tough, and recovering from the issues you’ve had in the relationship is even tougher and takes time.” – Jyoti Patel
  94. “Even the best of friends face conflicts, but that needn’t mean the end of the relationship.” – Anonymous
  95. “Real heartbreak is unmistakable, from the intensity of the emotional pain it causes, to the totality with which it takes over our mind and even our body. We think of nothing else.” – Guy Winch
  96. “No matter your role in this breakup, whether you were dumped or you walked away, it takes serious courage and resiliency to make it through to the other side.” – Samantha Burns
  97. “Although breakups can feel unbearable, we don’t die from them.” – Rachel Sussman
  98. “You’ve felt the grief and sadness along with the anger associated with your breakup. Your body is literally a giant tank filled with emotions, and they need to be released.” – Andi Dorfman
  99. “Unlike real hurricanes, heartbreak has no eye – it offers no reprieve and it leaves no place to take shelter. We thus remain exposed, drenched, and miserable until it passes.” – Guy Winch
  100. “Letting go does not mean you’re giving up, it simply means you’re making a conscious choice to acknowledge that something is out of your control.” – James A. Murphy
  101. “Now, defeating kryptonite and getting over a broken heart is incredibly tough. It’s also wildly empowering. But the even bigger victory is finally living your own life again without the constant presence of heartache.” – Greg Behrendt What to say when breaking up with someone you love? Start the conversation with what’s not working in your relationship, then tell the person you want to break up with, and listen to what the other person wants to say. When to call it quits in a relationship? If you are not happy (needs aren’t met) in your relationship, are facing violence in any form, or are not OK with your partner’s behavior, call it quits in a relationship. Why is silence so powerful after a breakup? Cutting all forms of communication with your ex puts you in control, and it will give the strong signal that you can live without them.

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