“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.…”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Holding on to something is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate.”— Deepak Chopra, goodreads.com
“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”— Henry Ellis, psychcentral.com
“Empaths, poets, dreamers, feelers, wishers... whatever we are, we're barely holding on.”— Emmily, twitter.com
“You shouldn't hold onto someone who has already let you go.”— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, instagram.com
“You lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“We struggle so hard to hold on to these things that we know are gonna disappear eventually. And that’s really noble.”— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com
“Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the tr…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If you're going to love someone or something then don't be a slow leaking faucet----be a hurricane.”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“So I'm gonna love you, like I'm gonna lose you. I'm gonna hold you, like I'm saying goodbye.”— Meghan Trainor, amazon.com
“Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.”— J.L. Berg, amazon.com