174 Toxic Relationship Quotes When You Need to Walk Away from Abuse

It can happen to anyone by anyone. It’s is so easy to exist in a toxic relationship and so difficult to realize it and get out.  However, the signs are there and when it comes to any long term negativity, controlling behavior, disrespect and violence or abuse, no one should put up with it. Whether it is a friend, sibling, parent or lover it is unacceptable.  Many times it may be the result of an imperfect pairing or something even deeper that concerns us and why we may be too tolerable. Many of us may have experienced such situations and the same goes for famous celebrities, which is why they have expressed their outlook.
In spite of the reason someone may have such a connection, if your downs are mostly what your are experiencing, you know it’s time to walk away.  Read on to find a variety of quotes about toxic relationships that many renowned individuals such as TV hosts, best selling authors, athletes and more have shared to inspire and motivate you.  These words of wisdom will aid friends and loved ones to be encouraged to seek and share a better and more positive life with the people surrounding them.

Table of Contents

1. Toxic Relationship Quotes About Human Connections That Can Make You Suffer
2. Sad Relationship Quotes About Love Wrapped in Pain
3. Broken Relationship Quotes About Sad But Inevitable Breakups
4. Abusive Relationship Quotes to Help You Walk Away
5. Bad Relationship Quotes to Help You Move One

Toxic Relationship Quotes About Human Connections That Can Make You Suffer

• Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah
• Don’t wait. If it’s not right, move on. Andy Lau
• Love should not make you feel like walking on eggshells. Emma Xu
• They provoke you but when you defend yourself, they cry victim. Mitta Xinindlu
• Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don’t forget that. S.E. Lynes
• How can we not be dooms to each other? Iris Murdoch
• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey
• The creative process is lost in a toxic environment. The risk of staying is too great because in it you may never reach your full destiny. Germany Kent

• The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will. Robert Tew
• Break free of toxic people and relationships, they erode your quality of life. Ty Howard
• I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect. Amit Kalantri
• If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it’s time to get up and leave. Karen Salmansohn
• Was looking for honey, found poison instead – Toxic Friendships. Shivangi Dhawan
• When you get out of it, you realize how toxic it actually was. Steve Maraboli
• Maybe I fell in love with a version of him that didn’t exist. Namrata Gupta
• Don’t confuse familiar with acceptable. Toxic relationships can fool you like that. Steve Maraboli
• I seem to be torn between I wish we’d met earlier and I wish we’d never met. Ahmed Mostafa
• Handling toxic people is not an art, they will be the victim of their own toxicity. P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
• Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions. Suzy Kassem

• I’m accustomed to toxicity and can’t control myself when I’m near it. Dominic Riccitello
• Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache. Iyanla Vanzant
• It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of Me, which is basically a tyranny of others. Stefan Molyneux
• It took me a long time to realize the difference between the people we are drawn to and the people who are good for us. Steve Maraboli
• Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters. John Mark Green
• Some people will rip out your heart with a steak knife then say, Oops, sorry, do you need a plaster? Wayne Gerard Trotman
• He would hurt me and make the hurt my fault. So, no matter who got hurt, I was to be blamed, always. Namrata Gupta
• … we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive. Liz Thebart
• Medicines don’t come to the wound, only the flies do. We often get attached to people who pleasantly scratch our wounds. Shunya
• Toxicity at work, relationship or in life works as a slow poison which often ends its survivors as disillusioned or embittered. Abhysheq Shukla

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• A monster
  Someone who left me in the dark
  Someone who darkened me
  A million times over. Dorothea Lasky
• Instead of understanding my problems, he used them against me and that’s when I knew we weren’t quite right. Dominic Riccitello
• I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way. R. YS Perez
• I overcame my fear of loneliness when you showed me how lonely I can be when you’re around. Khadidja Megaach
• Some people are mad at you because they made the mistake of underestimating you. They threw you under the bus and you survived. Steve Maraboli
• Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless… but you’re not worthless, you’re unappreciated. Steve Maraboli
• When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. The misinformation will seem unfair but rise above it, trusting that others will eventually see the truth, just as you did. Jill Blakeway

Sad Relationship Quotes About Love Wrapped in Pain

• Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• You gave me pain wrapped in love. Krishna Chhetri
• There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. Ranata Suzuki
• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from. Faraaz Kazi
• Don’t let the scars on your heart define the way you love. Laura Chouette
• Situations have ended sad,
  Relationships have all been bad. Bob Dylan
• Sometimes scars run deeper than wounds ever did. Laura Chouette
• Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Henry Winkler
• He was my sweetest fantasy and my bitter reality. Luffina Lourduraj
• Anybody who does not value what you have does not deserve your relationship. Matthew Ashimolowo
• Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else. Cheryl Strayed
• The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness. Uniek Swain
• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Jim Rohn
• You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love. Ayushee Ghoshal
• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno

• When a relationship doesn’t work anymore, it’s terrible to stay with someone that you don’t love. Monica Bellucci
• There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. Steve Maraboli
• You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you. Tablo
• Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don’t, it fills you up with its emptiness. Kiera Cass
• Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger. Coco J. Ginger
• A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel. Shakti Gawain 3
• The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious. Betsy Kenton
• 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
• 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
• I write you a letter that begins
  With I love you and ends with I love you and
  Somewhere in the middle is one goodbye for every hurt. Patricia Smith
• It’s nice to be with someone, but I don’t think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad. Kristin Davis
• People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good […]. They love each other because it’s easy. Or because they’re used to it. Or because they’ve given up. Or because they’re scared. Nathan Hill

Broken Relationship Quotes About Sad But Inevitable Breakups

• Life goes on… with or without you. Faraaz Kazi
• When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. Paulo Coelho
• Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. Genevieve Rhode
• Relationships are like money, Hard to earn and easy to lose. Skumarsinha
• It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company. George Washington
• Every time I try to sort things between us, I end up blocking you. Surbhi Deshwal
• Every pain of loss tells a story of love. John Mark Green
• I think about you. But I don’t say it anymore. Marguerite Duras
• The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates
• It΄s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. Phil McGraw
• Cheating and lying aren’t struggles. They’re reasons to break up. Patti Callahan Henry
• Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. Steve Martin
• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
• I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. Carl Sagan
• If they are stupid enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go. Unknown
• To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. Bess Myerson
• I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile. Lone Star
• It’s easy to fall in love… The hard part comes when you want out. Colleen Hoover
• The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did. Faraaz Kazi
• A second chance will never be able to heal the wound of the first one. Laura Chouette
• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E.M. Forster
• Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery. Judith McNaught
• Relationships are like crystals, you don’t realize how much you love it until it breaks. Walter Winchell
• Have the courage to walk away, those that value you will want you back, & those that do not won’t hold you back. Trevor Driggers
• I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back. Paulo Coelho
• You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go. Ranata Suzuki
• One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones. Turcois Ominek
• I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I am better than that. Goodbye! Steve Maraboli
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran
• Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. – Steve Maraboli
• You didn’t just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn’t just break my heart; you broke our future. Steve Maraboli
• The people who are quick to walk away are the ones who never meant to stick around. Unknown
• Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story. Faraaz Kazi
• But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on. Khadija Rupa
• Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. Nicole Sobon
• One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. Mandy Hale
• Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. Carrie Underwood
• Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. Jean Kerr
• Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley

Abusive Relationship Quotes to Help You Walk Away

• The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal. Astrid Alauda
• So many people suffer from abuse and suffer alone. Pamela Stephenson
• HE ISN’T ABUSIVE BECAUSE HE IS ANGRY; HE’S ANGRY BECAUSE HE’S ABUSIVE. Lundy Bancroft
• Just because its explainable, doesn’t mean its excusable. Unknown
• I’m Used To, Being Used, Not Abused. Syed Sharukh
• Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength. Henry Rollins
• The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems. Beverly Engel
• Learn to walk away from those who cause harm to you. Malika E Nura
• Abuse is the means in which violence retards love. Inga Muscio
• Do not be blind in love and try not to suffer in silence. Alba Castillo
• You are aggressive, says the emotional abusive. Mark Brightlife
• Once you learn to be happy, you won’t tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less. Germany Kent
• An abusive person may look innocent, but it doesn’t mean they are. Gift Gugu Mona
• Emotional abuse is the least understood form of abuse. Beverly Engel
• The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister – its violation of the soul. Rachel Abbott
• Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don’t address it. Until it happens to celebrities. Nelsan Ellis
• An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively. Joe Biden
• Revenge is surviving, getting out, and being a better person than you were, and breaking the cycle. Kristy Green
• He said he loved more than any other women he’s ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it. Crystal Woods
• Abusive relationships shouldn’t have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close. Sijdah Hussain
• An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end. Desmond Tutu
• Get pissed because you deserve more than this abuse. Emotional abuse is the gateway to all abuse. Get out! Tracy Malone
• 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
• Be gentle with your past selves for doing what they had to do to get through it. Jordan Pickell
• We must send a message across the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence—the shame is on the aggressor. Angelina Jolie
• Abuse is the weakest expression of strength. It is weakness to destroy what you ought to protect, build and make better. Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
• Abusers – they’ll manipulate and they’ll lie to you. And when you no longer give them that power, they’ll try to manipulate your family or the people close to you instead. LaTasha “Tacha B.” Braxton
• The hardest part of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, its actually admitting you’re in one. Anna Akana
• Emotional abuse cuts to the very core of a person, creating scars that may be longer lasting than physical ones. Beverly Engel
• Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go. Steve Pavlina
• It’s never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down. Steve Maraboli
• Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships – in other words, in families – the last place we would want or expect to find violence. Leslie Morgan Steiner
• The No.1 reason women stay in abusive relationships – because they’re not able to take care of themselves financially. It’s also the No.1 reason why women go back. Kerry Washington
• I got to the point where I stopped asking questions because I didn’t want to be lied to. Abuse confuses you like that… Instead of walking away from the liar, you find ways to deal with the lies. Steve Maraboli
• But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it. Lundy Bancroft

Bad Relationship Quotes to Help You Move One

• Don’t’ settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. Oprah Winfrey
• Loving the wrong person is self-harm. R.H. Sin
• Never make someone a priority, when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
• Sometimes trying to fix them, breaks you. Steve Maraboli
• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. Wayne Dyer
• The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. Robert Anthony
• Sometimes a bad relationship is the best you can do. Matt Nix
• I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho Marx
• A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself. Dionne Warwick
• Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. Marian Keyes
• No relationship is totally without conflict. H. Norman DMin Wright
• I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward, or it dies. Woody Allen
• The single most potent perpetuator of depression is a stable bad relationship. Jon G. Allen
• Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back. Suzy Kassem
• Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. Dr. Joyce Brothers
• A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere. Unknown
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The wrong person isn’t breaking their back to make you happy. So, stop breaking your back for them. Sonya Parker
• People hold onto the wrong person because they think that person has the potential to be a better person. Sonya Parker
• All the lies and pain you put me through, I know now that your love was never true. Francine Chiar
• Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you. Gugu Mofokeng
• Don’t be reckless with other peoples’ hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• You don’t let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself. Charles Orlando
• 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
• 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
• Some relationships just move from one unresolved conflict to another. H. Norman DMin Wright
• 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
• Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. Wayne Dyer
• Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses. Tarun Sharma
• 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
• Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers. Mary Tyler Moore
• 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
• It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party. Nick Hornby

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