Failed Relationship Quotes

There will be times when you break up with someone, and it doesn’t end the way that you thought it would. This can be a bit of a difficult time for both parties. But trust us, things do get easier! Take these failed relationship quotes as a little motivation to help you begin to move on once again after heart broken.

• “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

• “There are no failed relationships. Every person in our lives has a life lesson to teach.” 

• “If the relationship doesn’t make you a better person, then you are with the wrong one.”

• “I consider myself an expert on unsuccessful relationships.”

• “You still mean everything to me. You’re just not worth fighting for anymore.”  

• “I’d rather be happy and alone than with you and miserable.”

• I didn’t want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalized experiences I’d had. So when I’m writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I’d had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid. — Zachary Cole Smith

• “Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.” ― Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading

• “Just because the relationship ended, doesn’t mean the feelings did.”  

• “Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.” — Trent Shelton

• “It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.” — Dr. Phil

• “You have certain ideas about what should happen… expectations. And if life is not moving that way, something is wrong. Nothing is going wrong! Life is going on its own, on,!y you have some fixed ideas. So drop those fixed ideas. Life is never going to follow you… you have to follow life. So if it is muddled, be muddled. What can you do?” ― Osho, Beloved of My Heart: A Darshan Diary

• “If we knew how broken we would be after a failed relationship, we wouldn’t have put in much love. But what hurts most is, everything seems beautiful from the start, so all we could do was to enhance upon it’s beauty to a perfection. Not knowing each togetherness has it’s own coupled purpose. “Know the purpose of every relationship.” — Jeffery Kwakye

• “You hurt me more than what I deserve because I loved you more than what you deserve.”       

• “Stop giving yourself to people who don’t value you.”

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Failed Relationship Moved on Quotes

Let’s move on shall we? Sometimes those who failed us in the past are worth forgetting. For example, if someone cheats on us how could we ever trust them again? Here are some quotes that could motivate you to forget and move on from a broken promise. What’s one quote from this list that inspires you most? Share it in the comments below!

• “You can’t put a good man or a good woman on layaway.”

• “There’s nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.” — Max Greenfield

• “Some people will never understand the sacrifices you’re making for them.”

• “When she greets you in the morning, that’s just common politeness. When she drops her handkerchief in front of you, that’s carelessness. And when a girl at your part-time job gives you her e-mail address, it’s because she wants you to cover her shift. I don’t believe in coincidence, fate, or destiny. All you can believe in are company orders.” ― Wataru Watari

• “Don’t hurt the next one because of pain from the last one! Let God heal you.” 

• “One of the hardest part of life is deciding whether to walk away or try harder.”

• “Rod Wave best lines: Everybody be cheating but nobody wanna be cheated on.”

• “Sometimes, in a relationship, we fail to put two and two together because we want so much to keep one and one together.” ― Robert Brault
• “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment’s silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain.” — Marian Keyes

• “Don’t ask God to remove people when he has given you the power to say goodbye.”

• “Guys will get the girl that everyone wants… then forget she’s still the girl that everyone wants……” ― Ian Ochieng

• “You realize that you fell for who you thought he was going to be, not who he was….

• “Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together.”

• “When you said you will be there for me, guess you meant only when times are good.”
• “We are a false magic” ― Jessica Perez Dimalibot, Wind Bells

Thought-Provoking failed Relationship Quotes

You may be hoping to find something meaningful on our long relationship quotes page that will help you when times are tough in your own personal relationships. Don’t be sad you’ll find these relationship failure quotes helpful – because true or not at least they make sense, maybe they’ll even help keep your mind clear enough to concentrate on other things important to you in lifelike starting up a business.

• “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

• “I TRIED – The sweetest thing you could ever say for a failed relationship.”
• “The more chances you give someone the less respect they’ll start to have for you. They’ll begin to ignore the standards that you’ve set because they’ll know another chance will always be given. They’re not afraid to lose you because they know no matter what you won’t walk away. They get comfortable with depending on your forgiveness. Never let a person get comfortable disrespecting you.”                                                                                                                              

• “Relationships fail because of trust issues, commitment issues and communication issues.”
• “…there was nothing left of their shared past. It was like trying to retrace a footprint left behind on wet ground.” ― Tessa Harris , Beneath a Starless Sky
• “Relationship never dies a natural death…They are murdered by ego, attitude and ignorance…” 
• “When you get into a bad relationship the best thing you can do is get out of it as soon you can.”
• “It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.”
• “Most relationships fail because couples fight with pride more than they work with love.”
• “To be rejected by someone so truly awful: the deep injuries this has caused will be hardest to fix.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
• “Relationships fail because people take their own insecurities and try and twist them into their partner’s flaws.” — Baylor Barbee
• “The hardest part is waking up in the morning, remembering what you were trying to forget last night.”
• “A strong relationship starts with two brave people who are ready to sacrifice anything for one another.”
• “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically.” — Joel Osteen
• “When you get taken for granted, don’t change who you are. Just change who has access to who you are.”

Quotes About Relationship Failure

• “Don’t be discouraged – every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”— Gillian Flynn
• “If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.”—Harriet Lerner
• “Sometimes I think that after so many failed relationships I’ve turned stone cold and just can’t trust again.” 
• “The only thing worse than being in a bad relationship for one year is being in it for a year and a day.” — Dr. Phil
• “Every failed relationship is an opportunity for self growth and learning. So be thankful and move on.” 
• “The majority of failed relationships are due to poor choices, ignoring signs, insecurities, and attitude.”
• “If a man expects a woman to be an angel in his life, he must first create heaven for her. Angels don’t live in hell.”
• “The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships; we listen half, understand quarter, think zero and react double.”
• “When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.” — Julia Roberts
• “When someone tells you they are too “busy”, it’s not a reflection of their schedule; it’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule.”
• “Without communication, there is no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there’s no reason to continue.”
• “Sometimes you don’t need to hear their excuses or what they have to say for themselves because their actions already spoke the truth.”
• “She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.” — Christina Westover
• “No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want, it taught you what you don’t want.”
• “Most relationships fail because one person was being loved too much and the other wasn’t being loved enough.” 

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Unhappy Failed Relationship Quotes

• “All failed relationships hurt, but losing someone who doesn’t appreciate and respect you is actually a gain, not a loss. Know your worth.”
• “Remember there’s a purpose to every failed relationship. The purpose isn’t to encourage you to lower your expectations, but to raise your standards.” — Robert Tew
• I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line. — Neil Gaiman
• “We failed to see relationships that we should have. We failed to communicate from one agency to the other. Those are part of what we are learning today.” — Bob Graham
• “Don’t break up. Fix the problem. Start the romance again. Go on dates again. Work on winning each other over again. This is why there are so many failed relationships. If you love each other and are best friends then breaking up is not the answer.”
• There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. — Robert Breault
• “I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don’t see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you’re attracted to someone, you go for it – whether or not it’s a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.” — James McAvoy
• “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.” — Steve Martin
• “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
• 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 witherings, of tarnishings. — Anais Nin
• “It is better for someone to break your heart once by leaving your life, than for them to stay in your life and break your heart continually.”
• “Most relationships fail not because of the absence of love. Love is always present. It’s just that one loves too much and the other too little.”
• I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
• “Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each others mistakes and not enough time enjoying each others company.”
• “There’s nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.” — Max Greenfield

Deep Failed Relationship Quotes

• “Some people will never understand the sacrifices you’re making for them until you stop making them. Don’t continue to be where you’re not appreciated.”
• “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” — Steve Maraboli
• “The problem with relationships today is that everyone has been so screwed over by an ex that they’re afraid to let their guard down again.”
• “At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.”— Elisabetta Canalis
• “The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”—Tonya Hurley
• “People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.” — Ethel Person
• “In terms of relationships, I’ve had two failures, although I don’t like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I’ve always said that I am a much loved woman.” — Kate del Castillo
• “Most relationships tend to fail, however it’s not because of the absence of love, because love is always present. It’s just that one person was loving too much and the other wasn’t loving enough. So, if you love someone, tell them and show them.”