50 Quotes About Moving On
I may think of you softly from time to time. But Iâll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
â Arthur Miller, The Crucible
I am slowly learning that some people are not good for me, no matter how much I love them. I deserve someone who is gentle and kind, because my soul is getting tired. Realizing that I deserve something good is one of the first steps.
â Michelle K., Why I Need to Say Goodbye to You
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
â J.R.R. Tolkien
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, âI donât care how hard this is, I donât care how disappointed I am, Iâm not going to let this get the best of me. Iâm moving on with my life.
â Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full PotentialÂ
They say you donât get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we donât deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. Thatâs why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
â Yasmin Mogahed
I want to thank you for never being there anymore. Your absence has forced me to find my own way.
â Unknown
You get a strange feeling when youâre about to leave a place. Like youâll not only miss the people you love but youâll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because youâll never be this way ever again.
â Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
You never get over it. But you get to where it doesnât bother you so much.
â Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
âŚYou canât get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
â Â Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.
â Heather Davis, The Clearing
I didnât leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.
â Rupi Kaur
You get a strange feeling when youâre about to leave a place. Like youâll not only miss the people you love but youâll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because youâll never be this way ever again.
â Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in TehranÂ
You knew me once, but you wonât know me twice.
â James Joyce, Finneganâs Wake
Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.
â Nikita Gill
I let it go. Itâs like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
â Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
When someone wonât let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?
â Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrineâs Home for Peculiar Children
Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
â Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I just hope that one dayâpreferably when weâre both blind drunkâwe can talk about it.
â Salinger, J.D.. Franny and Zooey.Â
Itâs better this way. A little lonelier but better.
â Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before Â
It is so hard to leaveâuntil you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
â John Green, Paper Towns
Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for you today. You let them change their haircut, let them move, let them fall in love again. And when you see this person you have let go, you realize that there is no reason to be sad. The person you knew exists somewhere, but you are separated by too much time to reach them again.
â Chelsea Fagan, How We Let People GoÂ
Growing apart doesnât change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. Iâm glad for that.
â Ally Condie, Matched
i believe in growth.
the kind that hurts
and the kind that
heals.
â Alexandra Elle
âŚI love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just donât like you anymore. Iâm sorry.
â David Nicholls, One Day
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
â Jack Kerouac
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
â Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
â Henry Rollins
Youâve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.
â Janet Fitch
You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you for ever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: itâs not too late to recover. Youâre young, youâre tough. Youâre adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.
â Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
â Mark Slouka, Godâs FoolÂ
I knowâbetter than anyoneâthat once someoneâs made up their mind to leave you, thereâs nothing you can do to make them stay.
â Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys
Even if I see you again,
I will never see you again.
â Margaret Atwood
When someone wonât let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?
â Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrineâs Home for Peculiar Children
My life has changed, and Iâm changing with it.
â Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you loveâthat person keeps changing. And later you wonder, is this the same person I lost?
â Amy Tan, The Kitchen Godâs Wife
The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.
â Unknown
When someone leaves, itâs because someone else is about to arrive.
â Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people youâve known forever donât see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
â Nicholas Sparks
Some people enter your life in a whirlwind and no matter how hard you try you canât stop thinking about them, even after they leaveâŚespecially after they leave.
â F. Scott Fitzgerald
They wonât understand until you leave. The minute you walk away youâll become âthe best theyâve ever had.â Itâs crazy how loss triggers love.
â Alex Elle
Someday youâre gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. Youâll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
â Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love.
know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you canât stay like you are for another second, or youâre going to explode.
â Jennifer Echols, Forget You
When someone leaves, itâs because someone else is about to arrive.
â Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Itâs hard to let go. Even when what youâre holding onto is full of thorns, itâs hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
â Stephen King, Joyland
Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for you today. You let them change their haircut, let them move, let them fall in love again. And when you see this person you have let go, you realize that there is no reason to be sad. The person you knew exists somewhere, but you are separated by too much time to reach them again.
â Chelsea Fagan, How We Let People Go
Never waste your time wondering about what might have been. Get busy thinking about what still might be. And trusting that whatever it is, it will leave you glad that what might have been, never came to be.
â Sandra King
To say goodbye is to die a little.
â Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
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