Quotes About Letting Someone Go

#1. Sometimes ... the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

Rebecca Serle

#2. She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.

Lisa Scottoline

#3. Sometimes,' he starts, 'the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

Rebecca Serle

#4. Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

Cassia Leo

#5. When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.

An Na

#7. When you hug someone,
never be the first to let go.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#8. I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

Katie Kacvinsky

#9. By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

Sallie Tisdale

#10. I'm not letting you go. I'll fight my corner. You deserve for someone to fight for you.

Belle Aurora

#11. What you need to find is someone who never will let you go ...

Greyson Chance

#12. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#13. Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Deborah Reber

#14. Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.

Vironika Tugaleva

#16. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Every time you sort of let go of the bar, you knew someone was there to catch you, and vice versa. And, I mean, come on. It's Method Man. It's been a dream to meet him forever.

Josh Peck

#18. Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

John Hagee

#19. Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.

Lauren Kate

#20. Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. It was as if someone had left
the bird there
as a kind of telegram
of feathers, oily feathers
that looked like they'd struggled,
shuttered a little before letting go
into flight
forever.

Kristen Henderson

#22. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.

Vironika Tugaleva

#24. You can meet someone who's just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.

Winna Efendi

#25. It was so cute and she was so shy. Someone told me that Randy Orton went up and hugged her and she wouldn't let go. It was kind of cute.

The Miz

#26. Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

Meghan O'Rourke

#27. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

Stephen Richards

#28. As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Ellen Hopkins

#29. If you have never forgiven someone who has hurt you deeply, you are yet to experience one of the joys of sublime living.

King Samuel Benson

#30. Sometimes the only reason why you
won't let go of someone making you
sad is because he was the only one
that once made you happy.

Lily Amis

#31. Blaine, the scariest part about love isn't love itself. It's letting go and plunging into the unknown. It's trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It's allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you

S.L. Jennings

#32. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

Stephen Richards

#33. When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.

Donna Lynn Hope

#34. If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?

Iyanla Vanzant

#35. I hated him, I loved him, I hated myself for loving him. I hated myself for letting him go, for letting him find someone else. I was furious, but the truth was nearly everything he'd said about me was true.

Kandi Steiner

#36. There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less." Suddenly,

Kandi Steiner

#37. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

C. JoyBell C.

#38. Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.

Faraaz Kazi

#39. Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#40. Letting go of someone who owns your heart is hard. Sometimes holding on to that person is even harder. I know I'm not the easiest person to love, but you are.

J. Sterling

#41. Angel was someone he'd never imagined having in his life, but always hoped for. She was more than worth the wait, and he was never letting her go.

Katie Reus

#42. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

Stephen Richards

#43. If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

Adam Duritz

#44. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

Stephen Richards

#45. Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Bryant McGill

#46. I'm grateful you entrusted me with them. But the day will come when someone will knock the sails out of you. She'll shatter every belief you had of me and you. She'll give herself completely and unconditionally; and you will too. And I'll be nothing more than a fond memory.

Senayda Pierre

#47. No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

Kathy Griffin

#48. We all lose someone at some point in our lives,
But don't ever let go of that smile.
Hold on forever,
Because that's our final dedication.

Danny Worsnop

#49. Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work.

Katie Kacvinsky

#50. Sometimes loving someone means letting them go. Every

Amy Patrick

#51. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

Stephen Richards

#52. Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.

Bryant McGill

#53. Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

#54. How long do you think it takes to get over someone?
Forever. Sometimes it takes forever.

Winna Efendi

#55. Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

Kate Winslet

#56. Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

Goldie Hawn

#57. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#58. If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.

Seth Adam Smith

#59. You're absolved," I tell him.
He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.
So I put it in his language. "You're free.

Hannah Moskowitz

#60. Forgiving someone doesn't mean pretending nothing happened. Rather, it means releasing the burden of anger and obsession so you can move on with your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#61. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.

Stephen Richards

#62. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.

Mandy Hale

#63. If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

Shannon L. Alder

#64. Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

Faraaz Kazi

#65. She couldn't help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone's mistakes.

C.C. Hunter

#66. Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Sharon Salzberg

#67. No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn't really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.

Alan Heathcock

#68. A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

Will Smith