35 Quotes About Letting Go Of The Person You Don't Want To

“you must forgive me for leaving when i did”

— M. Ocean, amazon.com

“every 5 am feels the exact same without you”

— M. Ocean, amazon.com

“The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

“You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.”

— Charles Bukovski, amazon.com

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”

— Nicole Sobon, amazon.com

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”

— Guy Finley, books.google.com

“and in the end, letting go was a lot like finding love. i had to learn to say goodbye to the one who gave me the courage to say hello.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”

— Madeline L’Engle, amazon.com

“We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”

— Yasmin Mogahed, facebook.com

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

— Ann Landers, amazon.com

“Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. Your problem is, you just can't let this one go. It's over.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“But you're neither friend nor foe Though I can't seem to let you go. The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down.”

— Sara Bareilles, open.spotify.com

“Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.”

— Lauren Kate, amazon.com

“Letting go doesn't come very naturally to me.”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com

“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over. I looked at him, and I fel…”

— Jenny Han, amazon.com

“Conflicts between your heart and head appear like a boxing match. To walk away from someone who consumes so much of your heart, you can’t bear the thought of it. But, then in your head you remind yourself, it is for the best you leave now.”

— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com

“One day you're gonna remember me and how much I loved you...then you're gonna hate yourself for letting me go.”

— Unknown, pinterest.com

“This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.”

— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.com

“Sometimes the kindest thing to do is to let people go.”

— Leanne Taylor, vulture.com

“You were the greatest thing now you're just a memory to let go of.”

— Paramore, play.spotify.com

“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you'll continue to be art even when he's gone.”

— Charlotte Geier, annaheritage.tumblr.com

“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.”

— Haley James Scott, amazon.com

“And in the end, she left a scar and I knew that was how she wanted to be remembered. She wanted to leave her mark in the world without getting her heart too attached to it.”

— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com

“I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I are going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com