30 Candid Celebrity Quotes About Heartbreak

"When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life. I'm afraid of feeling that again." —Harper's Bazaar, 2012

"I’ve had a great deal of suffering in my life... I’ve had a lot of things happen to me that I don’t talk about in the press. I’ve had a lot of really heartbreaking, difficult things. But all of those things have strengthened my resolve to make the best of my life." —Metro, 2013

"No, it doesn’t feel good. It doesn’t feel good in this moment, but in the future, it’s the thing that’s going to light you up so you can stay lit! When you look at the thing, the deeper the heartache, the more you needed to learn, and that’s actually the truth... Every heartache is there to teach you something about yourself." —Vibe, 2018

"I think it's great to have been wrong in love and been destroyed and heartbroken. I just think it makes what you imagined to be a life choice better. Everybody should date, if that's what you're interested in, and you should be wrong, and you should break some hearts and your heart should be broken, and you should lay in bed in your old days next to a telephone, looking at it, hoping it's going to ring, and be disappointed that it never does." —The Goop Podcast, 2018

"I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away." —Harper's Bazaar, 2014

"Life’s short... there’s so much to give, there are so many people in it, so much beauty in it. My mother tells me that a story has to move forward. You’re not supposed to read one chapter over and over again. You turn the chapter and you go on to the next experience, whether it’s a film, the next person, the next city, or life." —Filmfare, 2018

"That is what let me to this new awakening, this realizing, if I don’t do some self-love, I’m not going to be able to keep the love I want." —Marie Claire UK, 2013

"I was so scared of ever being alone, and I think, conquering that fear, this year, was actually bigger than any other transition that I had. I don't ever want to have to need someone again where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself." —in an interview with Barbara Walters, 2013

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"The truth is, I should be angry, resentful and disillusioned about relationships. But I'm not. Love did not work with that person. But it can work with another." —Vanity Fair Spain, 2011

"When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute. And nothing's ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I'm like, nothing's ever gonna make sense again." —ELLE, 2009

"I was crawling on the floor. I remember throwing up. Like, within the hour. I remember being on the floor... I have never felt anything quite like that. It was so visceral. It’s like someone has killed you and you have to live through it and watch it happen... It was awful." —Interview, 2012

"Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands." —in her memoir, Yes Please, 2014

"As women, we go into marriage thinking it’s going to last forever and that this is our prince on a shiny horse. That’s what fairytales taught me as a kid... We go in there with that hope, so when it falls apart it feels like a huge failure and a huge disappointment. I’ve often felt guilty and responsible. I’ve suffered a lot of pain and anguish." —in a Q&A at the 2017 City Summit and Gala

"I know the yearning... It’s a huge, aching yearning. And the loss! The loss of a miscarriage is not talked about enough. That’s massive grief to certain women. There’s an enormous amount of pain—and an enormous amount of joy on the other side of it. The flipside of going through so much yearning and pain to get there is the feeling of 'Ahhhh!' when you have the child." —Tatler, 2018

"What you need to know is, nobody can save you or heal you. Only you can do that for you." —in an interview with Maria Shriver, 2014

"A heartbroken person is unlike any other person. Their time moves at a completely different pace than ours. It's this mental, physical, emotional ache and feeling so conflicted. Nothing distracts you from it. Then time passes, and the more you live your life and create new habits, you get used to not having a text message every morning saying, 'Hello, beautiful. Good morning.'" —ELLE, 2015

"Queen, know your worth. You were a Queen before him. You’ll be a Queen after him. He can’t make or break you. Being equally yoked is what you should strive for. Spirituality is key. Once your spirit can soar on its own, then you are ready to 'allow' him the privilege of your time." —Twitter, 2018

"I am a little shy this time because I am not as strong inside as I have been in the past. It’s not something I wanted. There’s nothing nice about it. It’s just hard. Sometimes maybe it appears I am pulling it all together, but really I am just trying to get through my days." —The Telegraph, 2018

"It ended in a way that was awful. When something ends in a way like that, it's important if you can, in a way, go back and revisit it and either shut that door or create a new room. So it was a very healthy, cathartic experience." —Esquire UK, 2014

"What scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me... The fight against gravity for me is to find that love for myself that gives me the courage to reach my fullest potential." —Harper's Bazaar, 2012

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"It’s been a journey, and it’s been a transformation of myself, my needs and wants as a woman, my desires and my values in life. I think everyone wants to hold on to what’s in front of them, but when you open your mind, saying, 'Well, I want what’s best for myself and my daughter,' you have to be okay with however that looks." —Women's Health, 2018

"You just think you’re never gonna get up off of the floor, you think you’re never gonna get out of the funk that you’re in and you do, the sun rises the next day, and you get up, and you just keep going." —People, 2015

"We’re so consumed as a society with 'Do you have a boyfriend?' or 'Are you married?' We miss the love that is staring you right in the face. I feel surrounded by love. I feel blessed now here in my life." —AARP Magazine, 2013

"I would rather have my heart broken a thousand times than never to love at all. I have so much love to give—I’m not empty of love, I’m full of love." —InStyle, 2012

"I think the thing that I have learnt is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience... Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship." —The Telegraph, 2010

"It was hard to imagine I would ever walk down the aisle again. It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. Once you do that, you feel complete—and that's the only time you can truly fall in love again, and give yourself over completely to another person." —Glamour, 2009

"Nobody tells you about failure. People always talk about winning, vision boards, getting what you want. People also don't talk about fear. It's always keeping fear at bay. Squelching it. Throwing it away. I've embraced fear and failure as a part of my success. I understand that it's part of the grand continuum of life. I've been through it all. Breakups, heartache, and I've lost a parent already. So now I get it at this age, I get that that is it. That life literally is what you make it." —Vulture, 2014

"Everyone has had their heart broken or screwed up a good relationship. And my hope is that people will walk away realising that so many journeys are the same. My heartbreak is the same as someone else’s and if I have to be vulnerable for people to get that, that’s OK." —Live Happy, 2017

'Take your broken heart, make it into art." —as told to her friend, Meryl Streep