- It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what. - Stephen Fry
- I’ve learned to know that some people will leave you. Some people will without a doubt walk out your life without a bye, without closure, without anything. Sometimes we spend so much of our time with people that they end up becoming a part of our lives, a part of us. Then once they’re gone, we feel an emptiness, a loss, and we have a hole in our hearts. There’s not always much you can do about loss. There’s no cure and there’s no way to make you forget how you felt for the person. It’s always going to take time, because while you think you’re recovering, you’re love is just growing fonder because they’re gone. You start to see how much you love them, how much you need them, and how much you want them. And quite frankly it’s sad because they were so much of you, and once they’re gone so much of you is gone too. — Selea D
- Something was and wasn’t there between us, something went on and went away. — Wislawa Szymborska, “First Love”
- Even if I see you again, I will never see you again. — Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
- The past beats inside me like a second heart. — John Banville, The Sea
- I can’t tell how I really feel, or whether I’m in love with love, or what… — Jack Kerouac, Windblown World
- You are not my star to keep.You did not fall for me. But out of all the stars I have seen, you are the one that has made me smile the brightest. — Celtic-Poetry, Star
- You’re getting closer to your dreams and farther from me. — Natalie Meza
- For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever. — Lev Grossman, The Magicians
- When I’m with you, nothing seems terrible to me, not even leaving you. But away from you, the slightest fear is unbearable. I love you passionately — I’m empty and miserable without you. — Simone de Beauvoir, from Letters to Sartre
- All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time… — Mitch Albom
- You leave and I feel the way you do after sex when one person gets out of bed for one reason or another and you lie there pulling the blankets up. That unheld feeling. An empty, achey sleepiness. Not neediness, but a sort of asymmetry, the way you absently finger the empty lobe when you lose one earring. You leave, and I start thinking of ways to leave me, too. - No Great Illusion / You Leave
- I feel so selfish – I want you for myself. I want them for nothing, I want them just to be alive and happy and let me look at them and hear them and know they live. But I am greedy about you; I am full of greeds. I want to touch you, I want to be reassured, I want to find peace in you, and excitement; I make demands on you all the time and I do not make demands on them. And love, I imagine, must be selfless; but I am not selfless. I can never see what I give to you, but only what I take from you. - Martha Gellhorn / Selected Letters
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