Nuclear waste, radioactive gas, and smoking aren't the only things toxic. When toxic relationships take a toll on someone, they may have a nonetheless detrimental effect. We often don't notice or perhaps refuse to see harmful behavior towards us, even if our soul is screaming for help. When our hearts are aching and asking us to stop licking the poison so imperceptibly disguised as honey. To quote the lyrics from Barbra Streisand's and Donna Summer's hit, "Enough is enough."🎵
It's hard to think clearly when being burdened with emotions. However, so many things become more apparent after hearing the unbiased perception. However, if you're not in the mood to talk to your friends or seeing a therapist might be a bit on the dear side, the Internet is here to help. The web is full of toxic relationship quotes that may encourage you to finally cut ties.
Sometimes it's much easier to read through some relationship quotes and quotes about healing to help put your thoughts and emotions into words and make sense of it. Below, we've compiled a plentiful selection of quotes about toxic relationships that will hopefully help to put your mind and heart at ease.
However, no amount of bad relationship quotes or healing quotes will pressure you to make that final step if you don't change your mindset. Find the courage, walk away; you're worth so, so much more. Hey, chin up, don't let anyone dull your ✨sparkle✨!
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“Love cannot live where there is no trust.” — Edith Hamilton
“Love should not make you feel like walking on eggshells.”― Emma Xu
Yep, I've been in an abusive relationship. It's really hard to leave. But I'm glad I did.
“Don’t light yourself on fire trying to brighten someone else’s existence.”―Charlotte Eriksson
“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
This is me right now. I created an account after reading so many sad stories. Trying to find the strength to tell my own.
“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
“Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons.”– Travis Bradberry
“Sometimes there are things in life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need.” — Don Bolena Jr.
“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
“Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.”― Atticus
“A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.”― Dionne Warwick
“If you’re in a relationship and all you do is cry, you need to stop and ask yourself, are you dating a human or an onion?”― Karen Salmansohn
“It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.” — Daniell Koepke
“I seem to be torn between ‘I wish we’d met earlier’ and ‘I wish we’d never met’.”― Ahmed Mostafa
“The hottest love has the coldest end.”— Socrates
I wish I didn’t know this but it is true, lived it, experienced it, and I have been trying to find it and get it back everyday of my life since.
“A toxic lover is someone damaged beyond repair.”
I really feel this comment, because I have known women trying to save their man, almost killing themselves, and to no avail
“We’ve all loved someone way too freaking much.” — Karen Salmonsohn
“Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn’t honoring your feelings, it’s not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that’s a red flag!”– Doreen Virtue
“Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have – it’s toxic to any environment.” — Jonny Kim
“Sometimes you need to give up on people, not because you don’t care but because they don’t.”
“Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.”― Asa Don Brown
“Stop setting yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.”
“A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.”― Karen Salmansohn
"There must come a time when your love for yourself becomes more important than your need to hold onto the pain of your past."― Karen Salmansohn
“We teach people how to treat us.” — Dr. Phil
“Such a disappointment when you defend someone for so long thinking they are different and they turn out to be just like what everyone said.”
“You are allowed to terminate toxic relationships. You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you. You don’t owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself.”
“When he’s the last thing you need, he’ll drain you. He’ll exhaust you. He’ll destroy you. And you won’t see it that way. In fact, you won’t notice it at all. But everyone else will.” ― Kirsten Corley
“Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don’t turn your hair gray. Don’t carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don’t lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”― Bryant McGill
“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
“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
“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
“Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts.”― Donna Lynn Hope
“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
“When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again.”―Angel Moreira
“We all have that toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them…”― Rodolfo Peon
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
“It was strange, really. A couple of months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.”― Gabrielle Zevin
“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
“If you keep pretending you’re not hurt, how can you heal? True love doesn’t expect you to deny you’re in pain.”― Zara Hairston
“Make sure you’re not saying ‘It’s complicated’ when it’s actually TOXIC. The more words it takes you to explain your relationship, the less healthy it probably is.” ― Steve Maraboli
“When you are finally able to see and understand the toxicity you have been surrounding yourself with, they will do everything in their power to make you out to be the evil one.”― Christine E. Szymanski
“You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.”– Mandy Hale
“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
“My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that’s where genius lives.”– Robin S. Sharma
“If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end, low vibrational, relationship or friendship – you won.” — Lalah Delia
“Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.”– William P. Young
“You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a bell jar; starved for love.”― Ayushee Ghoshal
“Don’t light yourself on fire trying to brighten someone else’s existence.”―Charlotte Eriksson
“Just say no to complicated, dead end, unhealthy, and toxic relationships.”―Stephanie Lahart
“A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.” ― Dionne Warwick
“At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” ― Tara Westover, Educated
“If you’re in a relationship and all you do is cry, you need to stop and ask yourself, are you dating a human or an onion?”― Karen Salmansohn
“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
“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
“Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go.”— Dennisse Lisseth
“Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally, and sometimes, physically.”– Kemi Sogunle
“There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances, it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.”―Anthon St. Maarten
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ― Ernest Hemingway
"One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ― Michael J. Fox
“Don’t stay in an unhealthy relationship because you think it’ll get better eventually. Know your worth and move on.”
“When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it or cut them off.” ― Shahida Arabi
“In order to reach your highest potential, it is imperative that you remove all negative people from your life.”― Germany Kent
“He would hurt me and make the hurt my fault. So no matter who got hurt, I was to be blamed, always.”― Namrata Gupta
“Even if toxic people are right about what is “good,” they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.” — John Lewis Lund
“Clutter is not just physical stuff. It’s old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”– Eleanor Brown
“Know your worth and please don’t invest in toxic people or relationships, because any bond that requires servicing is not worth your time.” — Masaba Gupta
“Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.”– Zig Ziglar
“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.” — Anthony Storr
“Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.”– Henry Cloud
“You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.”― Chinonye J. Chidolue
“I know that it really hurts to move on but it hurts more to stay somewhere you aren’t appreciated, respected and loved.”
“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
“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
“Remove yourself from people who treat you like your time doesn’t matter, like your feelings are worthless, or like your soul is replaceable.”
“Never let someone who contributes to so little control so much.”
“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
“Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go.”— Dennisse Lisseth
“We can deeply love our poison. We can love the taste of it, the scent of it, the comforting weight of it in our belly and find ourselves woken in the night with stabbing cramps, arms around porcelain toilet bowls, hurling every last bit until collapsing on bathroom tile, limp from dehydration. Sometimes parting with love is essential for survival. I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.”― Maggie Young
“When it comes to abuse, you believe there’s no way out. There is always help. There is always a way out.” ― Rev. Donna Mulvey
“The wise do not consider the chains and shackles of jail to be the toughest restraints. The chains of attachment are the strongest of the ties that bind.”―Thich Nhat Hanh
“Removing toxic people from your life can repay you in scores of holistic wealth.”― Keisha Blair
“Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.”― Winnie Nantongo
“Consistency is genuinely improving yourself to become a good match for those with whom you are in relationships while distancing yourself from people when their actions become too toxic.”― Dexter A. Daniels
“Keeping bad company is like being in a germ-infested area. You never know what you’ll catch.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
“Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional – you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.”– Mark Manson
“Release the toxic and infectious spreaders of misery, souls destroying souls and poisonous liars. Awaken from the hallucinations and take back your heart. Reclaim your self-esteem and leave the toxic be.”– Giorge Leedy
“A relationship controlled by ambiguity, jealousy, and control is not a relationship at all.”
“Relationships never die a natural death. They are always murdered by attitude, behavior, ego, or ignorance.”
“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
“Life is too short to hang around people who are causing you to compromise. Pulling you down. Your time is too valuable to waste with people who don’t have a dream. People that aren’t going anywhere. You don’t need to make some big announcements, but little by little, you should spend less time with them. ― Joel Osteen
“You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a bell jar; starved for love.” ― Ayushee Ghoshal
“Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”―Israelmore Ayivor
“Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.”― Sharon Salzberg
“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
“Life is too short to hang around people who are causing you to compromise. Pulling you down. Your time is too valuable to waste it with people who don’t have a dream. People that aren’t going anywhere. You don’t need to make some big announcement, but little by little, you should spend less time with them."―Joel Osteen
“Dear Self: Stop re-opening your doors for toxic people, then calling it ‘seeking closure.’ Certain things don’t work out in life... And that’s ok.”— Reyna Biddy
“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”― Ella Harper
“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people’s fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free.”― C. JoyBell C.
“If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy – it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.”– Mandy Hale
“Real relationships – the kind that were supposed to last but never did – were more trouble than they were worth.” — Lauren Conrad
“A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven’t uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice!”– Israelmore Ayivor
“Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.”— Hussein Nishah
“There are people who bring you down by just being them. They need not do anything.”― Malebo Sephodi
“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
if you have toxic people in your life, leave them; yes! we wish but sometimes these people are family you literally can't exit family and you become the evil one for (not even calling people out on their ********) trying to leave ; since it's family we should forgive transphobic/racist/manipulative/abusing etc.. *because you are meant to ~~forgive~~ family !! incredible how abuse is accepting as long as it is within family {or is it just towards children?}
My husband and I have been married for over 10 years. We met when I was 18 and he was 21. We’ve been through a lot emotionally together. There were several HUGE fights and painful situations in our marriage, but we always seemed to come out stronger on the other side. Out of the blue my husband just sprung the divorce talk on me, I was totally depressed until I found the Dr.Todd website online and I ordered a Love spell. You won’t believe my husband called me at the exact time this spell caster finished his spell work in 24hours. I was totally amazed! He is wonderful and his spells work so fast. His contact: manifestspellcast@gmail.com https://manifestspellcast.wordpress.com
if you have toxic people in your life, leave them; yes! we wish but sometimes these people are family you literally can't exit family and you become the evil one for (not even calling people out on their ********) trying to leave ; since it's family we should forgive transphobic/racist/manipulative/abusing etc.. *because you are meant to ~~forgive~~ family !! incredible how abuse is accepting as long as it is within family {or is it just towards children?}
My husband and I have been married for over 10 years. We met when I was 18 and he was 21. We’ve been through a lot emotionally together. There were several HUGE fights and painful situations in our marriage, but we always seemed to come out stronger on the other side. Out of the blue my husband just sprung the divorce talk on me, I was totally depressed until I found the Dr.Todd website online and I ordered a Love spell. You won’t believe my husband called me at the exact time this spell caster finished his spell work in 24hours. I was totally amazed! He is wonderful and his spells work so fast. His contact: manifestspellcast@gmail.com https://manifestspellcast.wordpress.com
