We’ve created the ultimate list of breakup captions for Instagram. Splitting from your significant other is always a difficult time. Whether it’s been a short relationship or one which has spanned several years, going your separate ways is never easy.
It’s important to take time to allow yourself to heal. This is the only list of post-breakup captions you will ever need. Feel free to browse this collection and use whichever one speaks to you.
Breakup Captions for Instagram

- Always know your worth.
- Let the waves crash and the sun set and the boy leave.
- To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is.
- From strangers to friends. Friends into lovers. And strangers again?
- I think it’s important to realize you can miss something but not want it back – Paulo Coelho
- The tears will dry and the heart will grow stronger.
- Never beg someone to stay.
- Let it go.
- Our relationship is over, but there were more smiles than tears. So it was worth it.
- Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.
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- Eventually, you will recover.
- I’m done with great love. I’m back to great lovers.
- Isn’t it strange? You look at me. I look at you. With nothing to say.
- Be free.
- It was the beginning for me and the end for you.
- Yes, I’m happy, but you’re not the reason.
- Today it feels like I just woke up from months of sleeping.
- Just think, your ex is someone else’s problem now.
- When your past calls, don’t answer.
- It’s okay to not be okay.
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- I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke.
- Stop filling the spaces in between with distractions, and the right energy will flow in. – Amy Chan
- No boyfriend, no problems.
- Ghosting you.
- I have no regret that you’re leaving me. Because I know at least my feelings for you were always real! I was honest all the way!

- Bright future ahead.
- You dropped a diamond. Good luck with your rock collection.
- It was harder than I thought, but breakups are never easy after all I guess.
- Realized I’ll probs never find a love like the one I have for pizza and am cool with that.
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

- Happily ever never.
- Not your baby.
- I’m looking for a part of myself that you didn’t touch.
- If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
- Moving on.
- Shout out to my ex, you’re really quite the man. You made my heart break and that made me who I am.

- The tears do not dry by themselves.
- Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.
- I can breathe for the first time since you are gone.
- Love is a lie.
- I’m in love. I’m having a relationship with my pizza.
- Treat me like a game, and I’ll show you how to play it.

- Made like Elsa and decided to let it go.
- It’s not like I hate you but it’s like I don’t like the way you talk, laugh, flirt, walk, speak, love, live, and all your fucking crap.
- The garbage will be collected tomorrow. So, prepare yourself.
- Here’s to my ex. Hey, look at me now.
- Forget that boy, I’m over it.
- Who knew how bittersweet a breakup would taste?

- Once broken, impossible to gain back.
- Glowing and happier than ever before.
- Lesson learned.
- When things don’t work out, I know that something better is waiting for me.
- Break up with your girlfriend, ‘cause I’m bored.
- Single ( ), Taken ( ), Too Busy Enjoying Life (✓)

- Sometimes, God breaks our hearts to save our souls.
- I am back on the market.
- Everything in life happens for a reason.
- A strong woman never gives up on herself, but she may give up on you. – Mark Anthony
- Saying goodbye is a thousand cuts to the heart.
- Adjusting just fine.
- Men or shoes? Honestly, shoes last longer, and they’re more dependable.
- My ex is living proof of how stupid I can be.

- We broke up for religious reasons. He believed he was God, but I did not.
- The pain only made me stronger.
- The worst is a broken heart. Nobody can see it, but the pain is excruciating every time you take a breath.
- Cancel my subscription because I’m done with your issues.
- Every decision I make is the right decision for me.
- Our hearts are not in the same place, so teach me how to break up with you with grace.
- If you’re going to let one stupid prick ruin your life, you’re not the girl I thought you were.
- Sometimes, things fall apart to make room for better things to come together.
- I know my place and it ain’t with you.
- I used to hope that you’d bring me flowers. Now I plant my own.
- Your time is way too valuable to be wasted on people that can’t accept who you are, and who don’t give you the time back you deserve.
- Just wanna move on.
- What is stronger than the human heart, which shatters over and over and still lives?
- If Karma doesn’t hit you, l gladly will.
- My win, your loss.
- Fool me once, shame on you.
- Can you make peace with your past? Does it haunt you?
- Right person, wrong time.
- Sometimes when we lose our way, we find ourselves.
- People love and they leave, you just never know when. It will be okay soon. you won’t need them anymore.
- I’ve been stabbed from behind. Suppose you could take this knife out of my back before you leave. You’ll probably need it again.
- What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
- My DMs are open for sliding.
- I’m going through a breakup, and I just realized that I’m a boss without my ex.
- Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.
- Never cry for that person who doesn’t know the value of your tears.
- Choosing me and my happiness has been the best decision yet.
- It’s hard to sleep when your heart and mind are at odds.
- I never make the same error twice. I go over it four or five times.
- You glow differently when you put yourself first.
- My phone battery lasts longer than your relationships.
- Technically, I am single, but my heart has been taken by someone I cannot call my own anymore.
- You were my cup of tea, but I drink coffee now.
- My ex asked me, ‘Where are you movin’?’ I said, ‘On to better things.
- No one to blame but myself.
- Forgiveness is my gift to you. Moving on is a gift I’m giving to myself.
- Find the love you seek by first finding the love within yourself. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Some people enter our lives and leave their imprints on our hearts. Others enter our lives and make us want to leave our five fingers on their faces.
Iain founded The Road Trip Expert in 2019 and continues to manage the website to this day. The inspiration to start the blog came during an extensive road trip around Europe with two friends that spanned several months and involved over 25,000km of driving. Iain writes about a variety of topics including backpacking, planning road trips, and car camping.