Life Quotes

 Sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and hurt.
David Foster Wallace // Infinite Jest

This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.
Nicholas Sparks // Message in a Bottle

 Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer // Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

 People are people, and sometimes we change our minds.
Taylor Swift // Breathe

 Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.
Jon Sinclair

 Technically, he wasn’t an ex-boyfriend, but he was an ex-something. An ex-maybe. An ex-almost.
Unknown

 Don’t ever think that everyone who leaves wants to.
Unknown

  I’ll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // Benediction 

 I’ll make up for all the years I was supposed to be kissing you.
Leo Christopher 

 stay is a sensitive word. we wear who stayed and who left in our skin forever.
Nayyirah Waheed

 As long as you’re trying, I’m staying.
Unknown

 Sometimes you need to lose yourself a few times before you can find yourself.
Unknown

 Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.
Kate Jacobs // Comfort Food

 It is a happiness to wonder- it is a happiness to dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

 I know that you think that you’re on your own. But just know that I’m here, and I’ll lead you home if you let me.
Streetlamp Manifesto

 If we are not sad when we part, we must have done something lovely.
Kurt Vonnegut 

 How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.
Kurt Tucholsky

 I am too tired and I miss you too much.
Simone de Beauvior

 Try a little harder to be a little better.
Unknown

 It’s so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
John Green // Paper Towns

 A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about them.
Lisa Kleypas // Sugar Daddy

 We’ll never be those kids again.
Frank Ocean // Ivy

 Perhaps we may meet each other in a dream.
Marina Tsvetaeva

 You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
C.G. Jung

 I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // More Than Just A House

 I laughed and said, ‘Life is easy.’ What I meant was, 'Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.’
Miranda July // No One Belongs Here More Than You

 People don’t always get what they deserve in this world.
Lemony Snicket // The Blank Book

 Wait for someone who bumps mouths clumsily with yours cos they’re too busy smiling to kiss you properly. Yeah. Wait for that.
Azra Tabassum

 Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.
Cecelia Ahern

 Art exists because life is not enough.
Ferreira Gullar

 Some words stay in your head long after they’re spoken.
Robin Roe // A List of Cages

 They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // This Side of Paradise

 How glad I am that you exist.
Vita Sackville-West

 How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?
Doc Luben

 And take care of yourself, and be happy, but don’t forget how big the world is.
Martha Gellhorn

 It is only once in a while that you see someone whose elextrivity and presence matches yours at that moment.
Charles Bukowski // Once in a while

 Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
Tyler Kent White

 I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // Flappers & Philosophers

 One day, you realise that there are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.
Iain Thomas // I Wrote This For You

 And yet, you kept going.
Unknown

 If we were meant to be, we would have been by now.
Billie Eilish // Watch

 Sometimes all you had to do was exist to be someone’s saviour.
Keigo Higashino // The Devotion of Suspect X

 Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
David Foster Wallace

 I think when I met you, I became myself again. And we stumbled towards this mad world and made sense of it. Together.
R.M. Drake

 Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.
William Chapman

 To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J.K. Rowling // Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

 It’s not where I want to be but it’s better than where I was.
Unknown

 You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Ice Palace

 If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
John Green // Paper Towns

 Words never mean what we want them to mean.
Jonathan Safran Foer // Everything is Illuminated

 When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Love of the Last Tycoon

 We should meet in another life, we should meet in the air, me and you.
Sylvia Plath // Lesbos

 But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.
John Corey Whaley // Noggin

 I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz // He Forgot to Say Goodbye

 I thought I wouldn’t live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
Barbara kingsolver // Prodigal Summer

 You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.
Sylvia Plath

 Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ve had today.
David Nicholls // One Day

 In my heart I love her all the time.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Great Gatsby

 You have no idea what a charming memory you are to me.
Friedrich Nietzsche // Selected Letters

 We all go through phases in life. If you are not okay now, it’s okay. You will find your way.
Unknown

 I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

 If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
John Green // Looking for Alaska

 I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

 Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
Coldplay // True Love

 Every next level of your life will demand a different you.
Leonardo DiCaprio

 It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.
Ryan O’Connell

 We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers

 It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Cassandra Clare // Clockwork Angel

 You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
John Green // An Abundance of Katherines

 I loved you long before I had the guts to let you know.
William Chapman

 All I have to offer you is everything in me.
William Chapman

 There are feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you.
Maza Dohta

 I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
J.D. Salinger

 You remind me of parts of myself that I will never have a chance to meet.
Mariah Gordon-Dyke

 The universe is seeming really huge right now… I need something to hold on to.
E. Lockhart // We Were Liars

 Whatever you are, be a good one.
Unknown

 We all have souls of different ages.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Beautiful and Damned

 We tell our stories differently, don’t we, you and I?
Paula Hawkins // Into the Water

 Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Ann Patchett

 We are unusual and tragic and alive.
Dave Eggers

 I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Beautiful and Damned

 I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.
Viv Albertine

 Beautiful. Crushingly so. You look like the rest of my life.
Beau Taplin

 …I want enough time to be in love with everything.
Marina Keegan

 Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
David Mitchell // Cloud Atlas

 I won’t say it wasn’t meant to be, because it was. We were. Only for a short while, maybe. But we were.
Unknown

 And suddently you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Meister Eckhart

 You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.
S.E. Hinton

 People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman

 These are the days that must happen to you.
Walt Whitman

 I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac

 Our love was made for movie screens.
Kodaline

 You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known- and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda

 Sometimes all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.
William C. Hannan

 Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
David Foster Wallace

 …you and I knew strange corners of life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // This Side of Paradise

 Yes, there are times we live for somebody else.
The Lumineers // Dead Sea

 We’re not who we used to be.
Harry Styles // Two Ghosts

 In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.
John Green // Paper Towns

 In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolf

 How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.
Rupi Kaur // Milk and Honey

 Words never mean what we want them to mean.
Jonathan Safran Foer // Everything Is Illuminated

 As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
John Green // Paper Towns

 You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.
Eckhart Tolle

 Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
Hafiz

 For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.
So, collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.
This is your birth.
Zoe Skylar

 Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman // Call Me by Your Name

 Maybe someday we will be two people meeting again for the first time.
Unknown

 How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.
Drake // Thank Me Now

 And all I loved, I loved alone.
Edgar Allan Poe

 The sun will rise, and we will try again.
Twenty One Pilots // Truce

 Love isn’t like it is in the books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // Emotionl Bankruptcy

 If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
John Green // Looking for Alaska

 You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.
Ellen Hopkins

 People go
but how
they left
always stays.
Rupi Kaur // Milk & Honey

 I used to build dreams about you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // Benediction

 i have
what i have
and i am happy
i’ve lost
what i’ve lost
and i am
still
happy
Rupi Kaur

 You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and all your one million layers.
Unknown

 These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Najwa Zebian

 You go your way, I’ll go your way too.
Leonard Cohen

 Everyone is a main character to someone.
Amy Harmon

 I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.
Joanne Harris

 We pretend that we don’t care.
But, we care.
Lorde // Sober

 If someone makes you feel, let them.
Reyna Biddy

 You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.
Sophia Bush

 What survived may not be kind, but it’s me.
Unknown

 You are a minute of quiet in a loud shouting world.
Gabriel Gadfly

 It has made me better, loving you.
Henry James

 It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Cassandra Clare // Clockwork Angel

 Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, not the end.
Lang Leav

 Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.
John Green // Paper Towns

 We’ll never be those kids again.
Frank Ocean // Ivy

 We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.
Unknown

 I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
Marc Klein // Serendipity

 I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // More Than Just a House

 How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.
Nina LaCour // Hold Still

 You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.
John Green // The Fault in Our Stars

 Yes, there are times we live for somebody else.
The Lumineers // Dead Sea

 Love isn’t like it is in the books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // Emotional Bankruptcy

 All I have to offer you is everything in me.
William Chapman

 We’ll survive, you and I.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // More Than Just A House

 I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
Henry Rollins // Solipsist

 If we were meant to be, we would have been by now.
Billie Eilish // watch

 People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman

 I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.
Sage Francis

 You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
John Green // An Abundance of Katherines

 How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.
Rupi Kaur // Milk and Honey

 The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Crack-Up

 The sun will rise, and we will try again.
Twenty One Pilots // Truce

 How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.
Drake // Thank Me Now

 A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about them.
Lisa Kleypas // Sugar Daddy

 I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.
Heather Davis // The Clearing

 People go
but how
they left
always stays.
Rupi Kaur // Milk & Honey

 Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re even born.
F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Beautiful and Damned

 Sometimes you don’t get closure, you just move on.
Karen Salmonsohn

 Two souls don’t find each other by simple accident.
Jorge Luis Borges