“Leaving isn’t a sign of weakness. It doesn’t mean you’re giving up. Sometimes leaving is the greatest sign of strength you can have.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, strength
“Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Breakups
“Now go. Leaving quickly is the best thing you can do. Don't think about it, don't look back, and don't think that what's behind you is better than what's in front because it's not. Not in the very least.”— Celia McMahon, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Breakups
“You have to let him go. That means when he tries to text you to talk about his problems, you don’t reply. It means when he blows up your phone trying to get your attention, you don’t respond. It means you block him from all social media so that you don’t see if he’s having a ‘bad time’ or if he’s ha…”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Texting, Ignoring
“I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.”— Patricia Reilly Giff, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Memories, remember
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Breakups
“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”— Ann Rinaldi, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Words, Leaving
“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”— Jonathan Harnisch, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Ghosting, Unexplained
“Goodbye taught me that people don’t always stay and the things that belonged to you today can belong to someone else tomorrow.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Today, tomorrow
“No woman should stay in a relationship that feels like a cage.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Cage, Relationships
“Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.”— Jamie McGuire, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Miss you, Love
“I guess saying goodbye makes us reach out for those we would ordinarily ignore. Maybe we care about them more, too, when it is time to part.”— Kyung-Sook Shin, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Miss you, caring
“A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.”— Jessiqua Wittman, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, hello, Reconnecting
“I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Ghosting, Disappear
“Saying goodbye is a little like dying.”— Marjane Satrapi, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Dying, Leaving
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Souls, Connected
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Words, Leaving
“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Leaving, Goodbyes, Abandoned
“Sometimes we think we can make them stay. But we can’t. Because we can’t make people feel, we can’t make them love, we can’t change their heart just by giving them ours.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Staying
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Hatred
“So when you have to say goodbye to your forever person, be thankful. Be thankful that you met them. Be thankful that you got the chance to know them. Be thankful that you got to feel the way you felt about them in your lifetime. Because some people never do.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, forever person, thankful
“You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.”— Elizabeth Vaughan, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, property, Leaving
“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Endings, Start Over
“Sometimes leaving is the only way to appreciate what we have.”— J.A. London, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Appreciation
“I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so I'm leaving you first.”— Lauren Myracle, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Breakups
“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, difficult, Leaving
“It was because of you leaving that I found who I really was.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Find Yourself
“There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Leaving, Staying
“Goodbyes also hold a little bit of hope, because goodbye is not farewell, goodbye means till we meet again, goodbye means maybe not now but later, goodbye means someday we’ll say hello again; at another place and another time and goodbye is not always the end.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Goodbyes, Hellos, Farewell
“Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”— Rachel Caine, amazon.comTagged: Goodbyes, Survival, Leaving