Uma Thurman Quotes

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more walking around with my head down, I'm so over being blue crying over you.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

A person doesn't mourn forever.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

That's why breakups take two or three times- to build up immunity.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.

I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.

If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.