Parting Ways Quotes

“Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
― E.M. Forster, The Life to Come and Other Stories

“They say “Follow your heart”….
…. But I can’t follow you where you’re going…”
― Ranata Suzuki

“I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.”
― L.M. Browning, Vagabonds and Sundries

“He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breathing until I do. So you're going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.'

He tried to wipe her tears, but there were too many.

'I heard your song the moment we were born," she sobbed. "And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.'

She pressed cold lips against his and they tasted the salt of each other's tears.

'Are you ready?' he asked.

She nodded.

'Run!”
― Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles

“Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”
― Sheridan le Fanu, Carmilla

“You know, you left without saying good-bye. That's not like you, not that I have the slightest idea what you're like.”
― Warren Beatty

“let’s part
equals, as we were in every bed, pure
equals of the earth”
― Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems

“May you always look as beautiful as this last time I saw you.”
― Owen Jones, An Exciting Future

“LAST WORD

You made me laugh,
And I forgot all the tears.
You helped me up,
And I forgot the times
You let me down.
You were hatred,
Just as surely as
You were love.
You were everything right
And everything wrong—
Humility and
Defiance,
Cruelty
And kindness,
Approval and
Contempt.
You were everything
And nothing.
I had to let you go,
And it freed me.
Still, I’m sad,
For I know
Who you might have been.
I know you so well…
But you do not know me.”
― Kyrian Lyndon, Remnants of Severed Chains

“Also, I suppose I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive, after all.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Your coming here...made me so very happy. I wanted to keep dancing with you forever. That we should be so sad now...means we are very dear to each other. But really, there is nothing to be sad about...nothing at all.”
― Taiyo Matsumoto, Cats of the Louvre

“Goodbye, darling, would I could leave you with something, some little thing...'
'You leave me with all I'll ever need,' she said softly. There was resignation in her voice. 'You leave me with some hours that other women must make up or read about in stories.”
― Anne Rice, Violin

“Goodbye too painful a word to utter, we part in silence.”
― Melanie A. Smith, The Safeguarded Heart

“If I don't return, make sure Hercules moves on from all of this," Meg said.
"Meg..." Phil swallowed hard.
It was the first time he'd called her by her actual name.
She tried to put her spinning thoughts into words. "I don't want him wasting his immortality on me. He's a good guy who gives so much of himself. He deserves to have someone do that for him in return. Got it?"
Phil looked at her. "Wow, you really do love the guy, don't you?”
― Jen Calonita, Go the Distance

“Parting ways with someone or something doesn't always make sense, so people often create reasons to be angry and resentful, because it weaves a stronger narrative around the process of letting go. That way, they don't have to take responsibility for their part in it, because, you know. So-and-so was just a bitch and shit.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“I wish for you to find the love you thought was yours. I wish you find love from the one who has you. I wish my love leaves your heart. I wish that there remains no sign or trace of my worthless love in your perfect little world. Even if its meant to be empty, that emptiness would be from your real partner and not because of me.”
― Sappho Khizar

“He was becoming distanced from expectation, feelings, and fallible things. Fallible beings, to be clear.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“In matters of the heart and endings, a man's character is defined not by the act of parting ways with a woman but by the honor or dishonor he chooses to cloak his farewell in.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi