Everyone knows what it feels like to have your heart broken - even A-list celebrities. Here are the most relatable and inspiring things celebs have said about the ending of a relationship and finding the strength to keep going.
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Jennifer Aniston
"There are many stages of grief. It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I’m a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren’t in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it." - Vanity Fair, 2005
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Oprah Winfrey
"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
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Nicole Kidman
"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
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"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
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Reese Witherspoon
"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
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Amy Poehler
"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
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Halle Berry
"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
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Jennifer Lopez
"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
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Angelina Jolie
"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
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Demi Moore
"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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Cameron Diaz
"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
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"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
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