For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
There is a time to cry for those we have lost,
and there is a time to wipe the tears and smile again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
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