Looking for deep quotes about bad and unhealthy relationships? We have rounded up the best collection of bad relationship quotes, sayings, captions, messages, text, (with images and pictures) which you might find relatable and may inspire you to end your toxic relation and move on in life.
You may have a strained relation with your partner (husband/wife) or mother/father, daughter, son, or best friends. There may be many reasons for weakening the great bond you once shared, like trust issues, betrayal, misunderstanding.
If you feel the matter is no more resolvable and you feel you are being taken for granted and exploited then you are the best judge to leave the relation and move on. Don’t forget to read our article on inspirational quotes on fixing relations.
Bad Relationship Quotes
“Bad relationships change good people.” Bad Relationship Quotes
“Sometimes, you have to let go.” Quotes About Bad Relationships
“Bad things fall apart so good things can fall together.” Inspirational Quotes For Bad Relationship
“Sometimes you just have to be done. Not Mad, Not Upset, Just DONE.”
“I wish I knew how to quit you!”- Jack Twist
“We teach people how to treat us.” – Dr. Phil
“One bad relationship could make you never fall in love again.” Leaving Bad Relationship Quotes
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”- Socrates
“Relationships are not supposed to make you feel bad.” Bad Relationships Sayings
“Sometimes we just fall in love with the wrong people.”
“Don’t settle for anybody, just so you can have somebody.”
“I consider myself an expert on unsuccessful relationships.” Sarcastic Quotes About Bad Relationships
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.” – Edith Hamilton
“Sometimes trying to fix them, breaks you.” – Steve Maraboli
“Being single is smarter than being in the wrong relationship.” Bad Relationships Quotes For Him
“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”- Wayne Dyer
“Relationships end, but they don’t end your life.” – Steve Martin Ending Bad Relations Quotes
“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”- Henry Winkler
“Relationship is like cooking, don’t waste efforts on bad recipes!” Funny Bad Relationships Quotes
“Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos
“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.”- Robert Anthony
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”- Groucho Marx
“Learn to walk away from those who cause harm to you.” – Malika E Nura
“It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else” – Phil McGraw
“A bad relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.” Bad Relationships Quotes Images
“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” – George Washington
“Being alone may scare you, but staying in a bad relationship will damage you.”
“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
“When you get out of it, you realize how toxic it actually was.” – Steve Maraboli
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” – Anthony Robbins
“A wrong relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.”
“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” – Jojo Moyes
“Love sometimes hurts when you’re not with the right person but, don’t give up loving.”
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”- Abraham Lincoln
“Break free of toxic people and relationships, they erode your quality of life.”- Ty Howard
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault
“I am a strong believer that a bad relationship must be brought to an end, no matter how.” Bad Relationships Quotes For Her
“Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.”- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“If you’re giving your all and it’s not enough, you’re probably giving it to the wrong person.”
“I am getting nowhere with you and I can’t let you go and I cant get through.”- Ani DiFranco
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“The death of one relationship always start with the small arguments and then the suspicions.”
“I think it is a bad relationship when you get blamed for the things that make you who you are.”
“Just say no to complicated, dead-end, unhealthy, and toxic relationships.” – Stephanie Lahart
“When you get into a bad relationship the best thing you can do is get out of it as soon you can.” Bad Family Relationship Quotes
“When there is no trust at all between the two of you, then you do have a bad relationship then.”
“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.”- Dr. Joyce Brothers
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”- Arthur Schopenhauer
“There is no reason to believe that a bad relationship can be fixed, sometimes you have to let go.”
“I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” – Woody Allen
“How can I let you be a priority in my life, when I’m still an option in your life?” – Hussein Nishah
“If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it’s time to get up and leave.”― Karen Salmansohn
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” – Faraaz Kazi
“All the lies and pain you put me through, I know now that your love was never true.”- Francine Chiar
“Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.”- Zig Ziglar
“Relationships are like crystals, you don’t realize how much you love it until it breaks.”- Walter Winchell
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
“Professionalism makes work relationships healthy, foolishness and dishonesty erodes them.”- Ty Howard
“Relationships never die a natural death. They are always murdered by attitude, behavior, ego, or ignorance.” Father Daughter Relationship Quotes Bad
“Don’t worry when I fight with you, worry when I stop because it means there’s nothing left for us to fight for.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.”- Mary Tyler Moore
“A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just His way of letting you realize He saved you from the wrong one.”
“A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.”
“The hardest part of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, it’s actually admitting you’re in one.” – Anna Akana
“The wrong person isn’t breaking their back to make you happy. So, stop breaking your back for them.”- Sonya Parker
“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.” ― R.D. Ronald
“We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.” – Harville Hendrix
“A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” – Dionne Warwick
“It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others.”― Stefan Molyneux
“Relationship does not live in essence unless you can reliably tell the truth without being prompted.”- Kathryn Hendricks
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Now I believe it when people say love is blind… because I must have been blind to love a person like you.” – Mitch Cuento
“Relationships are supposed to make you feel good. Relationships are not supposed to make you feel bad.” – Laura Bowers
“Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” – Wayne Dyer
“For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.” –Robert Breault
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.” – Gabrielle Zevin
“A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.”- Shakti Gawain
“The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.” – Sonya Parker
“You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.”
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” – Steve Maraboli
“No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.” – May Sarton
“People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.”- Edmund Burke
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”- Henry C. Link
“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
“Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” – Mandy Hale
“Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.” – Marianne Faithfull
“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.” Failed Relationship Quotes
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox
“What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell
“Until you let go of all the toxic people in your life you will never be able to grow into your fullest potential. Let them go so you can grow.” – DLQ
“Sometimes it’s better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.”― Karen Salmansohn
“Never regret being a good person, to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and their behavior says enough about them.”
“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
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” – Ernest Hemingway
“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.” – Anne Hathaway
“Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.” – Mandy Hale
“For there is but one problem – the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“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.” – Terry Mark
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”- Deepak Chopra
“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it’s a bad one?”- Stephanie Perkins
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” – Criss Jami
“Bad relationships are like a bad investment. No matter how much you put into it you’ll never get anything out of it. Find someone that’s worth investing in.” Bad Relationships Quotes
“You don’t know what’s right or wrong. You’ve been told ‘you’re crazy’ ‘you´re overreacting’ so many times you started to believe that’s the truth.”― Anna Akana
“Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.”― Gift Gugu Mona
“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.”- Amy Grant
“In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her ‘parachute’ — and the other accepts this role — both will fall to the ground.”- Guy Finley
“A bad relationship is like standing on broken glass, if you stay you will keep hurting…If you walk away, you will hurt but eventually you will heal.”- Autumn Kohler
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
“Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated.” – Steve Maraboli
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” – Katherine Mansfield
“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?”- Donna Lynn Hope
“I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.” – Cameron Dokey
“We are responsible for our own relationships, their success, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.” – Sam Owen
“If you’re giving love and not receiving it, you’re not in the right relationship. If you’re receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.”- Patti Stanger
“That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.” – Robyn Schneider
“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.” – Sarah Waters
“If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you’re going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.” – Curtis Jackson
“Positive, affirming relationsips bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Great happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships.”- Gary Chapman
“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” – Rita Rudner
“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
“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest…” – H.P. Lovecraft
“I can’t control your behavior, nor do I want that burden…but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.” – Steve Maraboli
“There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn’t feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.”- Dionne Warwick
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” – Nicholas Sparks
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’” – Joel Osteen
“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.” – Jean-Yves Leloup
“Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” – Mary Manin Morrissey
