A list of toxic relationship quotes for when you need an extra push towards a happier you
If you have been with a toxic partner, you understand the pain of struggling to leave every day.
A normal relationship has its ups and downs. A toxic relationship, however, put you in a black hole of self-doubts and guilt.
But leaving a toxic relationship is never easy, especially when you are still in love. Your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.
So here is a list of toxic relationship quotes that will make it easier for you. They will remind you that you are not in this alone.
Read also: 15 Warning Signs Of A Toxic Relationship
Noteworthy Quotes About Toxic Relationships
Table of content
- Quotes About Toxic Relationship Signs
- Toxic people quotes that prove you deserve better
- Quotes moving on and healing from a toxic relationship
- 5 tips on how to leave a toxic relationship for good
What is a toxic relationship?
Quotes about the signs and red flags
If you are wondering if you are in a toxic relationship, you probably are. A loving and caring partner would not make you question the healthy status of your relationship. But the tricky part is, toxic partners are not always toxic. They can be sweet occasionally, making you wonder if it’s all in your head. So if you are wondering what are the signs of a toxic relationship, or should you leave your current one, these relationship quotes might give you an insight.
You feel like you have nothing left to give
A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dream, or your dignity.
Narcissists will always want more even when you have given all that you have. When you have nothing more to sacrifice, you mean nothing but an empty soul to them.
When you gut tells you so
The moment that you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do.
When you need time to digest the truth
Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.
Stop giving narcissist “second chances” because “next time” equals more heartbreaks, more frustrations and more time spent in a living hell.
When you feel consumed
A healthy relationship doesn’t drag you down. It inspires you to be better.
Love should be energizing. It should encourage us to be a better version of ourselves. But toxic partners, on the contrary, make us feel weak, exhausted and powerless. We should be learning, working and growing. But instead, we are too tired to do so because the relationship has drained us.
There are people who bring you down by just being them. They need not do anything.
– Malebo Sephodi
If they are not making you glow, glow alone.
We should fight for our relationships, but if fighting means ripping yourself to shreds and piggybacking all his demons, you need to leave.
– Tara Love
When you constantly question if you have done anything wrong
Love should not make you feel like walking on eggshells.
– Emma Xu
When they treat you like you are worthless
Remove yourself from people who treat you like your time doesn’t matter, like your feelings are worthless, or like your soul is replaceable.
– s.mcnutt
They’ll stab you in the lungs and then ask why you’re having trouble breathing.
– her-minds-a-mess
Toxic people quotes that prove you deserve better
People stay in toxic relationships for various reasons. It might be that love is still alive. It may be out of compassion. Or sometimes, we hold onto the hope that they will change. There is no winning here. The question is, how much you are willing to lose for the change you are hoping for. For many, that day may never come. If you are thinking about staying in a toxic relationship, these quotes will give you enough reasons to leave.
You are not a rehab. It’s not your job to fix everyone.
Some people don’t want to be fixed because being broken gets them attention.
Stop setting yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.
You are the sun. But you can only warm a body when it steps into the light.
– Alisha @whereshegrows
Just because someone desires you, does not mean that he values you.
Not everyone expresses love the right way. If it means manipulation, stress and mental control, there’s no justification no matter how much they love you. People are different, and it’s not your responsibility to change them.
You can’t change someone who doesn’t want to be changed.
Don’t let your loyalty become slavery.
Mental abuse is much more painful than physical abuse because you are consumed by your own thoughts.
At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.
– Educated, Tara Westover
It is better to break your own heart once than having someone breaking it every day.
Don’t lose yourself holding on to someone that doesn’t care about you.
Why do you think of him when you know he’s not thinking of you?
Sometimes you need to give up on people, not because you don’t care but because they don’t.
It’s better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.
Read also: 24 Happy Single Quotes To Enjoy Your Time Alone
You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.
– Chinonye J. Chidolue
Do not hold your breath for anyone.
Do not wish your lungs to be still.
It may delay the cracks from spreading.
But eventually they will.
Sometimes to keep yourself together,
You must allow yourself to leave.
Even if breaking your own heart,
Is what it takes to let you breathe.
– Erin Hanson
You think you can change a guy, that he’ll be different with you, that you’ll finally be the one to tame him… and before you know it, you’re alone in your underwear at nine o’clock on a Saturday night, crying to Adele songs, eating ice cream straight from the gallon, and wondering what the hell is the matter with you that you fell for such a goddamned man-child after he explicitly warned you not to.
– Julie Johnson
You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in his actions.
Never let someone who contributes to so little controls so much.
Words can lie. Actions don’t.
You take your power back by letting people go.
– Emma Xu
The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will.
– Robert Tew
Until a man gets himself heal, he will be toxic to every woman who tries to.
Quotes to move on and heal from a toxic relationship
Never rush yourself to get out of sorrow and pain. If you want to cry, cry. Talk to a friend, talk to someone you trust. Be vulnerable and be honest about your emotions.
Take some time off or look for help if needed. It is going to take some time to heal. But you will heal eventually.
If love can fade, so can pain.
You survived the worst part. You’re going to survive the recovery.
Read also: 39 Healing Quotes To Leave and Recover From Toxic Relationships
Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.
– Germany Kent
May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you.
– Lalah Delia
Until you let go of all the toxic people in your life you will never be able to grow to your fullest potential. Let them go so you can grow.
Stay strong. Never ever ever EVER turn back to a toxic relationship.
You have come so far and doing good. So don’t give anyone a second chance to hurt you again. It’s only going to get better now. So hang on.
You deserve better.
Sometimes bad things fall apart so good things can fall together.
Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and get yourself together.
Sometimes the best revenge is to smile and move on.
The best way to move forward is to let go of the people holding you back.
Tips on leaving a toxic relationship
Ending and moving on from any relationship is hard. If you are in a toxic relationship, chances are you might have gone through guilt trips, threats, emotional or even physical abuse.
Even if you are aware of how toxic this love is, it may still be difficult to leave. But don’t lose hope yet, here are 5 tips to try when it seems impossible to break away:
- Take it slow
The damage isn’t caused in just one day. Give yourself plenty of time to heal and move on. Pack your things. Stop blaming yourself. Delete the photos. Change your number. Take small steps one at a time.
- Reconnect with friends and family
Toxic people may try to isolate you from the rest of the world, making them “the only one you have”. And that’s why to leave a toxic relationship, we have to rebuild the connection with your support network.
Find people that you can be vulnerable with. Share with them your fear, your concern and ask them for advice. Sometimes a third perspective will help you to see a clearer picture.
- Know your worth
Keep in mind that being happily single is way better than being miserable in a relationship.
Stop worrying if you will never be able to find another one as good as them. Start practicing self-love. When you love yourself enough, it will be easier to cut off people that aren’t good enough for you.
- Stop making excuses for toxic partners
If you truly love someone for who they are, will you threaten them to make them stay? Will you keep cheating on them? Will you deliberately try to bring them down?
If the answer is no, it’s time to stop justifying their toxic behaviors in the name of love.
- Keep a journal
Write down your feelings. Document your relationship. Note down what they said and did. If a toxic partner tries to convince you to come back, read the journal, and remind yourself why you wanted to leave.
It takes lots of inner work and even professional help for someone toxic to change for the better. Beware of sugar-coasted promises.
Are these toxic relationship quotes helpful?
So here are all the toxic relationship quotes and tips to help leave a toxic relationship. I hope they are able to ring the bell if you haven’t made up your mind.
Don’t ever feel ashamed to ask for help. There’s nothing wrong to save yourself. And take the time you need to heal.
The struggle to leave someone you care about is so real. I feel like I’m volnerable and need someone right now.
Don’t know if it may help, but try opening up your struggles to your friend or family, or someone you trust. Or simply go out for a walk, shopping or whatever it is to get distracted.
All i can say is thank you for the inspiring quotes… its a big impact to my self.
Thank you Hazel!
I ve been living with this heartless person for 50 years I thought he would change in age, he had a stork and that did not change him so I left . Trying to adjust . Getting weak at time s hard when u have health issues but I I could not take no more
Toxic:- relationship word of the year.
@Dennks, hope ur much better 2022
@Dennks, that is so true I just read your message I know it wasn’t meant for me but I was reading inspirational quotes and this came on my page from you about struggling to leave someone I’m not sure who you are but I do believe I was supposed to read this thank you for your message and I’m glad I received it when I did
If they push you 1 meter away, push them 10 kilometres & more.
REALLY helping quotes ?
You might help some people with your advice, but, you forget about those of us out here that do NOT have family in friends to give support or to talk to! Some of us had our time and lives into their other partners lives and are now alone, without support of anyone! It would be great if there were quoets that just give good advice and can help the brokenhearted! Oh well….
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This is exactly how I feel it’s hard being completely alone after everything if you need someone to talk to I’m here even if I don’t know you!
Hey girl, I’m sorry to hear that and I also understand 100% what that’s like and what you’re going through because I currently am going through a very very similar situation right now so I thought maybe I’d share with you how I’m dealing and what’s seeming to be really working for me and getting me through it right now. My ex is an abusive narcissist and I’ve been trying to leave him for a few weeks now and today I decided that he was done disrespecting me for real and the first moment I knew he was for sure gone I immediately locked all of my doors and proceeded to send him one last very clear message that It was for real over with us,that it wasnt up to him if we were over I was telling him it was over and I told him not to come back here at all and to never contact me again and i blocked him on every form of social media and even blocked his number from calling my house phone. And I’m not going to lie since then I definitely have had urges to unblock him just to see if he maybe responded but instead every time I’ve felt that pull to let him back in I’ve made myself put my oho e down and forced myself to find something to do around the house as long as it doesnt involve having my phone and its seeming to help alor… I’ve found some strong supportive words from getting on pinterest and searching for
“leaving a toxic relationship supportive quotes” but I only allow myself to look at that content only and only for 5 minutes at a time every hour and a half or so whenever I have a smoke and I set an alarm for 5 mins and look then. This time I stumbled upon this message board and saw your message and related so I responded, hopefully I maybe helped out a little bit..
MIa-
I’m at where you were when you posted your thoughts in June. It took me 20 years to leave an extremely abusive relationship only to find myself now trying to extricate myself from another. The issue is that we sacrificed everything for our partner who was only happy when we isolated ourselves from everyone else and catered only to him. He manipulated us to feel like we should revolve around him under the pretense he was that special…but by doing so, we lost ourselves…and the meaning of life. I’m where you were back then. I hope you can say you are much happier where you are now. That’s what keeps me going….Hope when I’m dead inside.
Hey Mia… I don’t know you, where you live in this world BUT I agree 100%. There are some of us who have NO ONE but I’d like to be YOUR FRIEND, then we could Have ONE each????
Let me know… email me if you want. nayotte69@gmail.com
Hi Mia, maybe you can be the one to make those quotes and leave footprints for those feeling the way you do😉👍
@Mia, thank you, once again I thought I was alone and the only one with nobody to talk to because I don’t have anyone, like seriously, I have lost all my friends due to addiction and death, lost all my family due to dying, and I literally have nothing or anyone except for one little miracle and I am so very thankful for her everyday because she saves me daily, I love my precious cat Frankie.
I learned so much ❤️??
The quote helps a lot ♥️💯
we should stay away from negative people since theyy have a problem to every ssolution because its okay if people dont like yuo some people even dont like themselves
HAVE FUN WITH WHOM FUNS YOU
Sometimes bad things fall apart so good things can fall together…loved this
Sometimes its better to cry to heal your pain…
– RJ Rajdeep
where can i get those courage to leave him now?😞
@einnoc, front left shirt pocket, your heart knows what to do, so does your mind and your just looking for somebody to tell you your doing the right thing and that everything is going to be ok, your doing the right thing and I promise things will be better than they are now, so there you go, now go do you go the best of your abilities and have fun and adopt a cat, they are in need of our help and you will not regret it (unless your allergic) then don’t and just have fun with your new life 😃
I luv this alot
A abusive relationship is damaging to your health. I know my health has deteriorated over these years. I’m 60 years old been married almost 33 years. Get out of the relationship now. God isn’t in abuse.
Proud of you for taking action. I hope life gets better and easier going forward.
Grateful for these quotes! I left him. I’m never looking back no matter how bad it hurt me to leave I wasn’t getting treated with love, respect, honesty etc so I had to break my own heart but at the end of the day it was for the better, I deserve and can do better!
I was in a four year relationship , he married someone else because of her looks she was his dream girl tattoos everywhere , Pierced tongue , small petite because of drug use . I sent him std results before he married her that he got an STD because of her . He still married her . Him and I are trying to work things out , he is working on a divorce , yet he still cries about her in front of me , and tells he can find a better looking person in a heartbeat . To let you all know I’m the most kindest person in my heart … Beautiful on the outside and inside . The only issue is I’m over weight , that shouldn’t stop me from being loved because I’m over weight .
@Elizabeth, appearance is such bs, unless you are disatisfied with your appearance. I had someone who i was crazy about, and i thought he felt the same. until he met someone who was physically quite beautiful. After an argument one day he said ” no one will want you, I’m the best you ever had. I’ve had many females that look better than you”. That stuck in my head for so long. It made me isolate and constantly judge myself. He stole my happiness because I let him. However i started socializing, reading positive quiotes, and realizing all my attributes, and gained my happiness back. None the less to say he contacted me recently for a date. What do think I said?? NOT
knowing, feeling, and doing dont always go together and its really hard to let go eventhough the things he does are so mean and cruel. I have even left his side and been so blessed to have support and still even with all od the unfair and demeaning expectations and the physical, sexual, and mental abuse and lying I still have such a hard time letting go and giving him no power. I cant trust him and he doesnt even feel sorry… he just says it to say he did bc he should and he has like 2 extreme different sides and the negative side just scars me and letting go of the sweet side hurts. I am doing it but somedays I just hurt so bad. I feel so mixed and just pray to succeed and move on from these cycles in my life. I feel so overwhelmed with hurt especially with how good he is at fooling most other people and how he gets away with his sick mistreatment.
I was talking to this guy for 5 months, he wanted everything within a relationship but he didn’t want a relationship if that makes sense. He was always very touchy and he didn’t really talk much. He didn’t answer that often he would only answer calls. I recently found out that I wasn’t the only person he was talking to. When I asked him about it he immediately got defensive. He then told me that my friend was ruining my chances with him because she was telling me the things that he did. He started talking bad about her so I ended things with him. Because doing something to me is one thing but when you come for my friends were done.
Hello, I’m from Philippines. I’m in a toxic relationship so I search some quotes that will make me realize something and saw this. I’ve been through a lot staying with him🙁 and thank you for your inspiring quotes about relationships of how to let go and moved on it helps me a lot.❤️💔
Glad they help! Hope from here on, everything gets better.
@OurMindfulLife.com,
Hi guys, it’s not only men that are abusive , toxic and narcissistic. I was in a 6 year relationship with a woman who destroyed my sense of self worth , family and friends. Emotionally abused me and had total control of my life. She picked away at everything l believed in until l was nothing ! Then after all this she left didn’t even have the respect to tell me!! Just ghosted me after 6 long hard years. I know it was the best thing she did for me as l am now healing and back to my loving self, but recovering is hard even harder when your on the receiving end of a toxic narcissistic person, but it can be done! Learn what you like and believe in and work on that , allow yourself to grieve be upset, angry ashamed, but remember to be yourself not the shadow of what someone else thinks you should be!
Oh my. That sounds terrible. My heart goes out to you. I love how you said “it can be done”. It says a lot about your strength.
@Matthew,
Beautifully put.
When u love an bend over backwards n work 7 days a week to provide a home for both of u pay all Bill’s, groceries etc and yet still calls me the problem and blames me and turns everything around on me and claims I’m a narcissist hmm I’m trying to figure out am I the problem or is he
I agree with everyone on this, I dated this boy for 3 weeks and he made me feel special in every possible way he could and I tried to make him feel good about himself. Because he was also going through a lot. And I was too. It wasn’t enough. We’re taking a break right now and will hopefully start things up again when we are both mentally ready.
Unbelievable but Truth!! Before my wife and I were able to reconcile, Fighting to reunite our marriage almost led me to frustration and unhappy life experience. All thanks to Supremacy Love Spell on Facebook for his spiritual support and reconciliation prayers.
Thank you
I am at disbelief on my lack of strength courage and wisdom for allowing someone to zero me down to nothing in every aspect.of my life and I just keep.like allowing the thought love and patience will allow.this.wo.en to snap.out of it but my dad reality is.im a guitar played and lit on fire by Jimi Hendrix niece I’m
It’s been 25 years, he always abused me mentally, physically and drained me financially. Today He claims everything thing like house ,bank balance everything thing his.He cuts off me from my family members
.Even he abuses me that I provoked our kids against him, though the reality is he gave them traumatized childhood by beating them brutally.But still I have no guts to leave because I have lost my self confidence and in anxiety.My family is not strong enough to stand by my side.I am waiting for my kids to stand on their own.
i mean good quotes and all, but literally all of them are directed towards men. I’m not denying that men aren’t toxic, but there’s an equal amount of toxic women out there. So maybe try branching out your quotes.
i recently lost my bff to a guy she met 4 months ago and it breaks my heart she said sorry and tried to make me happy however she could but i m still hurt wt should i do…?
I was in a toxic relationship he physically abused me verbally abused me compared me with a lot of girls that how they don’t have a past and I do, I’m madly in love with him I have given my all I make food for him,I get him his favourite things, even on my worst days I love him like crazy, I teach him tho he does loves me as well but I don’t know if I’ll be able to sacrifice things for him in future at this point I’m in love young blood I can but idk if I can in future idk what this is it’s my first love it’s shredding my heart into pieces I’m afraid of getting suicidal I can’t think about anything bad about him even when he was hitting me I was still loving him now out of the blue our families got into it and had to end it due to pressure do u think it’s gods sign ?