50 Quotes About Moving On
I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
— 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.
— 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.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t 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. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
I want to thank you for never being there anymore. Your absence has forced me to find my own way.
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
…You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.
— Heather Davis, The Clearing
I didn’t leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
You knew me once, but you won’t know me twice.
— James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake
Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.
I let it go. It’s 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.
— Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I just hope that one day—preferably when we’re both blind drunk—we can talk about it.
— Salinger, J.D.. Franny and Zooey.
It’s better this way. A little lonelier but better.
— Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
— 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.
— Chelsea Fagan, How We Let People Go
Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
i believe in growth.
the kind that hurts
and the kind that
heals.
…I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don’t like you anymore. I’m sorry.
— David Nicholls, One Day
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.
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: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
— Mark Slouka, God’s Fool
I know—better than anyone—that once someone’s made up their mind to leave you, there’s nothing you can do to make them stay.
— Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys
Even if I see you again,
I will never see you again.
When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
My life has changed, and I’m changing with it.
— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love—that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, is this the same person I lost?
— Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s 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.
When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.
— 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 you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
Some people enter your life in a whirlwind and no matter how hard you try you can’t stop thinking about them, even after they leave…especially after they leave.
They won’t understand until you leave. The minute you walk away you’ll become ‘the best they’ve ever had.’ It’s crazy how loss triggers love.
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love.
know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.
— Jennifer Echols, Forget You
When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
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.
— 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.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
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