Leaving A Relationship Quotes

“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Staying, when you know you need to leave, is not a kindness to anyone. Least of all yourself.

But leaving, when everything in you wants to find a reason to stay, requires more kindness than you can possibly imagine.

We think we need strength and bravery to leave. I wonder if what we need is more softness.

If you need to leave, dig deep for every ounce of grace and mercy you have to muster. You’re going to need it.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“End of summer
comes falling like a waterfall of midnight stars
and I'm crawling out of this
nymphal skeleton
leaving you
like cicada do”
― Alisha Christensen, The Lovers

“Why do I have to exhaust myself trying to pretend to enjoy someone’s company? Or to like something? It hurts everyone involved. I laugh at their bad jokes and they continue to say them. I answer, “I’m great,” and we grow farther apart, or I say “yes” and lose another night where I could be alone instead. The nicest thing we can tell some people is that we are better off without them.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“I don't know what's more painful for me. Leaving you or to continue loving you.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“People stay all the time where we know they should not.

Even more, they stay where THEY know they should not. Against reason. At the risk of their bodies. At the risk of their sovereignty. At the risk of their heart.

We humans are nothing if not tenaciously obtuse in the face of a story that wants to end itself.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“You didn’t grow apart because you’re evil, but because you evolved.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Come with me. Don’t look at me like that. I know it’s ridiculous and that’s why. We’re dead here. If you still want us, we’ll have to go find it, but it isn’t here. I know two certainties. I love you and good things take work. Life is that thing we create when we already have what we need. I don’t need another yesterday. What’s the point? It’s no coincidence the things that I worked for were the only things that ever made me happy. In trying, I feel like a human again. In that space before the reward. Finally, I am. The men I met before you are as good as dust. I don’t even remember their names. All it took was looking at each other for us to meet. Nothing needed to be earned. It’s why most relationships are secretly unhappy. They were built on a neutral convenience. They don’t know each other. But the sex will be nice and the arms of holding someone in the holidays and hating being lonely will make us stay forever. Perfectly tame. Whatever happened to walking up to a stranger on the street and slaying the dragon of Fear? Marriages built on endeavor. Giving someone your whole day. Identity from hermitting. Life is achievement, honey. Death is saying okay. The best fruit is the one you have to climb for. You have to march through the fire. Make the jump. Drive across the country. Effort in love. Effort in fashion. Food. Work. Give thought to how we chew. How we move. Even speak. To make day and night things our own. It’s our only job. Indecision is criminal. When we try, we exist again. And I have to exist. I have to, I have to. So I’m leaving. And you can come if you want. I’m going either way, but you’d be my favorite. Flight’s at 5”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“You didn’t grow apart because you’re evil, but because you evolved. It’s life. It’s natural. It’s ok. Keep growing!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I hate people who tell you that they would never leave but they do. But what I hate more than that are those who make you feel as though they will never leave you and then do.”
― Aadyot Karna, And Comets Pass Away

“How do you do this?" she'd asked a man at the bar, who'd told her he was leaving his wife. "How do you decide which parts of your life you want to keep and which parts you want to leave behind forever?”
― Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

“she appeared in the doorway of his study and placidly announced she was leaving him. "It's you, not me," she said.”
― Kate Atkinson, Death at the Sign of the Rook

“What is hard for outsiders to understand is that it is much easier to leave a good enough relationship that is non-abusive than to leave an abusive or violent relationship.”
― Robin Parry

“You told me we had to stop
And left in the rain”
― Eric Overby, Senses

“You are gone
silence screams in my ears
I have cold feet
Stepping out of my bed that morning
was the hardest thing
I have ever had to do”
― Sakshi Narula, Loveish

“Phoebe makes her way and leaves. Grant is frozen. A whole minute goes by. Then, he reaches forward, clutching the air that used to be occupied. It was occupied right? Yes. Yes, she was right here. Right here. Oh, how fast things change.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“It's ok to forgive people silently and then just never speak to them again. They know what they did.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“Stop holding on to the people who have let you go.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“The words to say to make someone leave, or stay, are incredibly unpredictable.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“They will whisper and they will wonder, as they watch me walk away [...].”
― Chase Taylor Hackett, And The Next Thing You Know...