Instagram feeds are often carefully curated with picture-perfect moments and smiles. But life isn’t always a highlight reel of happiness and there’s a certain beauty in embracing the raw and unfiltered moments.
Sometimes we want to explore our deeper emotions and the power of vulnerability, and so I created a list of broken captions for Instagram.
These captions allow you to explore the different sides of human emotion and add a dash of authenticity to your feed.
Short Broken Captions for Instagram
Convey a sense of brokenness in just a few words with these short Instagram captions.
- Irrepairable.
- Broken pieces.
- Incomplete.
- Shattered.
- Empty soul.
- Emotionally broken.
- Crushed spirit.
- Fragile.
- A heavy heart.
- Feeling defeated.
- Beaten.
- Fragmented.
- Defeated.
- Beaten.
- Dejected.
Related: Two word captions for Instagram and one line caption ideas.
Broken Captions
Share vulnerability and emotion on Instagram with these broken captions.
- Even the strongest people break sometimes.
- Picking up the pieces of me.
- Beautiful and broken.
- Damaged beyond repair.
- Not sure I’ll ever be able to put myself back together again.
- Handle with care.
- I might look whole on the outside, but inside I’m in a thousand pieces.
- I break easily.
- Broken things will mend.
- We’re all a little bit broken.
- Each day I break a little more.
- I tried to keep it together, but instead I just fell apart.
- I wish I wasn’t so broken.
- Broken (adj): Damaged, no longer works.
- Sometimes you have to break in order to become whole again.
- Finding beauty in the broken.
- Holding on to shattered pieces.
- My mouth says I’m okay, my heart says I’m broken.
- When words can’t mend what’s broken inside.
- I broke myself thinking you cared.
- I don’t know how to fix the broken pieces of me.
- I need a break before I break.
- Angel with broken wings.
- You can’t break me. I’m already broken.
- You can heal a broken bone, but how do you heal a broken soul?
Broken Quotes
Sometimes someone else can say it better than you can. Use these quotes as captions to express your feelings.
- “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe.
- “You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.” — Nikita Gill.
- “Some things are more beautiful when they’ve been broken.” — Krystal Sutherland, “Our Chemical Hearts”.
- “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.” — Shannon L. Alder.
- “Maybe I’d always been broken and dark inside.” — Sarah J. Maas, “A Court of Mist and Fury”.
- “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” — Linda Poindexter.
- “I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.” — Marie Lu, “The Young Elites”.
- “And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.” — Kiera Cass, “Happily Ever After”.
- “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway.
- “You can’t break what’s broken already.” — LeAnn Rimes.
Sad Captions for Instagram
These captions express a sadness and helplessness that comes with feeling broken.
- Tears are words the heart can’t express.
- Even the brightest stars have their dark days.
- Sometimes you have to feel it all to heal it all.
- I’m not ok but I smile anyway.
- I need a break from my thoughts.
- I don’t know what I feel anymore.
- I miss the old happy me.
- I’m slowly giving up.
- I miss my old self.
- I hate missing people who don’t miss me.
- Nobody cares anyway.
- I don’t know how to be happy.
- I just need one person who will stand by me no matter what.
- Everyone else gave up on me, I might as well give up on me too.
Hurt Captions For Instagram
If you’re feeling hurt and broken, these captions help you express the pain and emotions.
- Everything hurts.
- I focus on the pain.
- I care so much it hurts.
- Pain is part of being human.
- Words hurt.
- Behind her smile is a world of pain and hurt.
- Have you ever been so unhappy that it physically hurts?
- I might act like I don’t care, but deep inside it hurts.
- I’d rather hurt on the outside than feel this pain on the inside.
- Why should I smile when it hurts?
- Finding joy to hide the pain.
- Hurt < Healing.
- All I know is hurt.
- Healing is a process.
- In all this pain, maybe I’ll find my purpose.
- Invisible wounds cut deep.
- Battles may leave scars, but they build warriors.
- At least when you’re alone, no one can hurt you.
Captions For a Broken Heart
If you’re feeling broken because of a break up, here are some captions for a broken heart.
If you’re feeling heartbroken due to cheating, check out our cheating captions.
- I cried. I tried.
- My heart still beats even as it breaks.
- Love is pain.
- Over you.
- Love hurts.
- Heart of glass.
- I gave you my heart and you broke it.
- The thought of you used to make me smile, now you’re the reason I cry.
- Scarred heart.
- When love hurts, it doesn’t work.
- I didn’t want to lose you.
- You were my sun.
- You just let me go.
- So lost without you.
- Things will never be the same.
- Sometimes the person you love the most turns out to be the one who hurts you the most.
- I wish you’d loved me a little bit more.
- I guess we were never meant to be.
- I love you but you don’t love me.
- Our love story turned into a tragedy.
- Why did you say forever if you didn’t mean it?
- Deleting the idea of there being a me and you.
- How do you mend a broken heart?
- Collecting the pieces of my broken heart.
Positive Break Up Captions
Here are some empowering break up captions about your strength and moving on.
- You broke my heart but you won’t break me.
- I know I’ll heal, it’ll just take some time.
- I won’t waste any more time thinking about you.
- Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is move on.
- One day at a time.
- Ready for a new chapter.
- Heartbreak isn’t the end, it’s a new beginning.
- I am not my broken heart.
- Getting over you.
- Letting go of something that wasn’t real.
Heartbroken Quotes
These quotes about broken hearts will make the perfect captions if you’re dealing with a break up.
- “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.
- “Hearts live by being wounded” – Oscar Wilde.
- “If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.” — C.S. Lewis.
- “The heart will break, but broken love on.” — Lord Byron.
- “Even though I had been broken, I was strong enough to love again someday.” — Kathleen Hayes.
- “And they can’t understand, what hurts more – missing the other person, or pretending not to.” — Khadija Rupa.
- “When you are in love, and you get hurt, it’s like a cut – it will heal, but there will always be a scar.” — Soo Jie.
- “Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” — Patti Roberts.
- “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” — Andrea Gibson.
- “Hearts are made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde.
- “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” — Mark Twain.
- “When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.” — Jamie Weise.
Heartbreak Lyrics for Captions
There are plenty of songs about pain and heartbreak! Here are some lyrics you can use as captions.
- “Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.” — Adele, “Someone Like You”.
- “If I can’t be close to you, I’ll settle for the ghost of you,” – Justin Bieber, “Ghost”.
- “Thank u, next.” — Ariana Grande, “thank u, next.”
- “We are never, ever, ever getting back together.” — Taylor Swift, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”.
- “Don’t tell me you’re sorry ’cause you’re not,” — Rihanna, “Take a Bow”.
- “How do I live without you?” — LeAnn Rimes.
- “I needed to lose you to find me.” — Selena Gomez, “Lose You to Love Me”.
- “Now you’re just somebody that I used to know.” — Gotye, “Somebody That I Used To Know.”
- “And I get the feelin’ that you’ll never need me again.” — Harry Styles, Falling.
- “If he don’t love you anymore then walk your fine a** out the door.” — Lizzo, “Good as Hell.”
- “How can I begin again? How can I try to love someone new, someone who isn’t you?” — Regina Spektor, “How”.
- “And the tears come streaming down your face when you lose something you can’t replace. When you love someone but it goes to waste, could it be worse?” — Coldplay, “Fix You”.
- “I know you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, but why can’t it be mine?” — Pearl Jam, “Black”.
Alone Captions For Instagram
Capture the feeling of loneliness with these alone captions for Instagram.
- I walk a lonely road.
- Every day I feel more and more alone.
- And just like that, I’m forgotten.
- They ignore you until they need you.
- At least if I’m alone, no one can hurt me.
- Alone with my thoughts.
- Invisible in a crowded room.
- Broken + alone.
- No one cares.
- Got nobody.
Broken & Sad Lyrics For Captions
Sometimes music can say it in a way we can’t. Here are some broken and sad lyrics you can use as Instagram captions!
- “These wounds won’t seem to heal, this pain is just too real” — Evanescence, “My Immortal”.
- “Take these broken wings and learn to fly again.” — Mr. Mister, “Broken Wings”.
- “Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair.” – Johnny Cash, “Hurt”.
- “I bruise easily, so be gentle when you handle me.” – Natasha Bedingfield, “I Bruise Easily”.
- “We’re not broken just bent and we can learn to love again.” — Pink, “Just Give Me A Reason”.
- “I didn’t even cry ’cause pieces of me had already died.” — Ingrid Michaelson, “Ghost”.
- “I knew you’d linger like a tattoo kiss, I knew you’d haunt all of my ‘What Ifs’” — Taylor Swift, “Cardigan”.
- “I’m not living, I’m just killing time.” — Radiohead, “True Love Waits”.
- “No one ever said it would be this hard.” – Coldplay, “The Scientist”.
- “I’m a mess and I’m still broken, but I’m finding my way back and it feels like someone’s stolen all the light I ever had.” — Demi Lovato, “Still Have Me”.
- “The more I try, the more I lose.” — A Static Lullaby, “The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us”
- .“And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention.” — David Byrne, (Nothing But) Flowers.
- “Why do we say things we can’t take back and why do we miss what we never had?” — Leona Lewis, “Lost Then Found”.
- “‘Til it happens to you, you don’t know how it feels.” — Lady Gaga, “Til it Happens to You”.
- “You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness.” — Gotye, “Somebody That I Used To Know”.
- “You shout and no one seems to hear.” — Pink Floyd, Brain Damage.
Heartbroken Bio for Instagram
If you want to add a bit of heartbreak to your Instagram bio, check out these ideas!
- Alone girl.
- I miss you.
- Queen of my own heart 👑
- Even strong hearts break.
- 🅗🅔🅐🅡🅣🅑🅡🅞🅚🅔🅝
- Still think about you.
- Moving on.
- My heart -> 💔
- ♥ Heartbroken ♥
- Single again 💔
Lindsey is the creator and writer behind The Caption Library. She’s worked in social media marketing since 2011 and has worked with a range of magazines, small businesses and bloggers. She enjoys being creative, whether it’s writing for her blogs or running her Etsy store!
