If you are seeking out the best quotes about exes that show you have moved on, you’re in the right place! 🙅🏼♂️🙅🏼♀️
Below, you will find a wide range of quotes about exes that are incredibly insightful, wise, and revealing that will help you show your true emotions and feelings about your ex.
Side note: If I have missed any quotes or sayings about exes that you think I have missed, please share them below and I will include them in future updates! 😃
53+ Wise Quotes About Exes
1. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
2. “When I see my ex and feel nothing that’s when I know I’m finally over it.” – Mario Tomasello
3. “Drinking coffee with your ex is healthy. It’s good for the soul.” – Leju Thomas
4. “You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.” – George Foreman
5. “To save face, it’s better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.” – Anthony Liccione
6. “You’re no longer a part of my life, but I wish you the best with yours.” – Mario Tomasello
7. “Whoever said, ‘Don’t regret what once made you smile’, never went out with my Ex…” – Nitya Prakash
8. “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Robert Holden
9. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – M. Kathleen Casey
10. “Dating an ex is the equivalent of failing a test you already had the answers to.” – Kendrick Cole
11. “I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock ‘n’ roll and ex-wives. In that order.” – Sam Kinison
12. “Some people are very happy despite their ex’s absence; some, because of it.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
13. “Everyone has that one ex that they don’t claim.” – Nitya Prakash
14. “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.” – Marian Keyes
15. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” – Mae West
16. “When you’re going through bad times, don’t think of me and all the good times we had.” – Raghib Clitso
17. “I have a hard time getting over an ex. Getting over an ex is just hard, period.” – Sevyn Streeter
18. “He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first.” – David Levithan
19. “Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
20. “When you enter your next relationship, you become the person you split up with.” – Gina Barreca
21. “I hate it when one of your exes wants you back after they see you’re happier without them.” – Jerett Parker
22. “We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.” – Alex Rosa
23. “You don’t particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?” – Ian McShane
24. “I thought I still loved you but then I realized I just love the memories of who you used to be.” – Morgan Hanthorn
25. “One relationship ends but life goes on. Your ‘Ex’ was just a stepping stone to something better.” – Sushan R Sharma
26. “One day your kids will ask you “What is love?” And you will look at your spouse and remember your ex.” – Nitya Prakash
27. “If you feel the need to insult your ex or their new lover, you obviously still have feelings for them.” – Alexis Rose
28. “Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are just off-limits to friends. I mean, that’s just the rules of feminism.” – Mean Girls
29. “Going back to your ex is like reading a book you have already read. The outcome will always be the same.” – Matthew Donnell
30. “Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for – looking up exes to see how fat they got?” – Bill Maher
31. “Every time you thought you couldn’t keep moving forward, you did. Take a moment to appreciate your strength.” – Karen Salmanson
32. “It is possible for your ex, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or your husband or wife, to no longer be your type.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
33. “Amongst all the beautiful women in this world, there’s always an idiot ex-boyfriend, who still expects her love again.” – 69rascal
34. “Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.” – Stephan Labossiere
35. “Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.” – Whitney Otto
36. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
37. “An Ex is like an inflamed appendix. It caused u a lot of pain, n after it was removed, u found out that u didn’t need it anyway.” – Nitya Prakash
38. “The best revenge you can get on your ex is to move on and let them see you happy with someone that treats you better than they did” – Sonya Parker
39. “You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn’t come.” – Junot Díaz
40. “When your Ex asks you to remain friends after you break-up, it’s like a kidnapper asking you to “keep-in-touch” after he releases you.” – Nitya Prakash
41. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” – Naeem Callaway
42. “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri
43. “It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.” – John Green
44. “Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.” – Helen Fielding
45. “I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile.” – Lone Star
46. “Exes are like our old diaries-they know the whole truth and the unedited version of you. If you can still attain their respect after the relationship you must have done something well.” – Nontobeko Sibiya
47. “Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
48. “I love my ex so much I printed out all his pictures. After all, I need him for target practice. And I just love customised toilet paper and doormats. My only regret is that those items don’t bear his autograph.” – Natalya Vorobyova
49. “Does that new man in your life call his ex ‘a slut’, ‘a whore’, ‘a bitch’, ‘psycho’ , ‘crazy’, ‘a nutter’ etc., etc. Chances are, whatever he’s calling his ex right now, he’ll be calling you when things don’t go his way. Be warned.” – Miya Yamanouchi
50. “‘Don’t look now, but that’s my ex over there.’ Surely I’m not the only one who takes ‘don’t look now’ as ‘there’s no better time than now.’ I looked. ‘Bad, Ali!’ Another slap to my arm. ‘Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self-control?'” – Gena Showalter
51. “You are telling the story of your life. You have the power to tell a different one. You choose, every day, how you interpret others’ actions, events, and the world around you. You and only you have the power to change this. Change the script!” – Laura Elliott
52. “This is why we call people exes, I guess – because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.” – John Green
53. “The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Just by being there, looking at the problem or at the darkness of your thoughts straight in the eye and deciding you won’t surrender to it, you won’t let it shallow you; you are being the bravest you can ever be and starting the path to your personal freedom.” – Nelson Mandela
Hopefully, these quotes about exes have helped you to move on, appreciate your ex (or not), and move towards a better future. If you want to learn how to get over an ex-partner, this is a really helpful guide!