Leaving Quotes
“I remember what you told me before you went out on your own. Sometimes to keep it together, you’ve got to leave it alone.” – Unknown
“One day we’ll wave ‘hello’ and wish we’d never waved ‘goodbye.'” – Unknown
“I want to remember how you’ve made me laugh and sometimes cry, and I never want to forget how special and different you are and how you’ve touched my heart in a way that no one else could.” – Unknown
“I know that you didn’t mean it and I know that you think saying sorry will make it better, but that’s not how the world works. It’s an imperfect world and feelings just don’t go away that fast. So either you never really loved me or you’re just hiding it because you’re scared. Well let me tell you, hiding something will get you nowhere and lying sure as hell won’t make you happy so go ahead and leave me but in the end you will see your mistake and come back. But you know what? I won’t be here.” – Unknown
“Why am I holding onto this? I know there’ll be nothing more to us except you using me. I need to make myself strong. I can’t let you break me more then you already have.” – Drea
“Before you leave, promise me one thing – that you won’t forget what we had. Because it was special, I know it was. And if I could go back in time, you know I would go back to you.” – Unknown
“I made the choice to finally go because I can’t stand this pain. It’s time for my last tear to fall and me to smile again.” – Unknown
“I pity him because I get to walk away and be me, and he has to stay him ya know? And who wants to be him when you could be me?” – Sex and the City
“I sat there and stared at you. I just couldn’t understand how such an amazing person could be in my life. And then all of a sudden I got extremely scared. You kissed me, and told me not to worry, there was no way you’d ever leave me. I felt a sense of comfort. I believed you. That is, until you left.” – Joanne Golden
“No more crying. I can’t cry anymore. Don’t take my hand this time, just go please and don’t look back. Because I know if you did, I would come running back to you.” – Unknown
“No more loneliness and heartache, no more crying myself to sleep, no more wondering about tomorrow. Won’t you come back to me? Come back to me. Do I ever cross your mind anytime? Do you ever wake up reaching out for me? Do I ever cross your mind anytime? I miss you..” – Brian McKnight, ‘Anytime’
“All I ever wanted was to make you happy. I can only do that by stepping aside. I just have one favor to ask of you… remember me.” – Family Matters
“And so if I have to leave you, I want you to know that in the end, it wasn’t because I stopped caring, it’s because you stopped being a friend.” – Unknown
“The hardest mile I’ve ever walked was the one away from you.” – Unknown
“So maybe you were special, and maybe you were supposed to be the one, but then again maybe you were just like the rest of them, only you took my heart with you when you left.” – Unknown
“From the moment he said hello, I could see goodbye in his eyes.” – Roseanne
“How can I say goodbye to you without losing myself too?” – Lost North Star
“I love you enough to let you go, but do you love me enough to come back?” – Unknown
“You turned away from opportunities to sit and talk things through but now when I say I’m leaving you, you have so much to prove.” –Brandy, Tomorrow
“So long to all my pain. Good night to my heartache. Goodbye sorrow. I won’t cry no more. I’m leaving tomorrow.” –Brandy, ‘Tomorrow’
“You couldn’t even say I’m sorry for all the hurt and pain you caused me. Now I am supposed to give my deepest sympathy? You see I had enough of cryin’ and I’m tired of all the lyin’. You see I refuse to let you take advantage of me, baby.” – Brandy, ‘Learn the Hard Way’
“It’s so hard to say goodbye to you. My heart knows the words, they just won’t pump up to my lips.” – Family Matters
“So, here I am again. ending yet another pathetic excuse for a relationship. And it always seems one things is always the same about it. I’m always the one who walks away from it all. Away from the person who always said he’d never let me go. Well, once again, I’m walking away… And once again, no one is stopping me.” – Unknown
“And every time I see you my heart falls to the floor and I want to stop you from walking away and I want to tell you everything, tell you how I feel, tell you that sometimes when you’re not even noticing, I look into your eyes, and when I do, it’s not my love for you I see, its my need.” – Unknown
“Sometimes what may be the best thing for you to do, sometimes that’s the hardest thing for you to do. And that’s real cause I know I love you, I know how I feel about you. But I also know that don’t make everything all right. And for that reason I gotta say goodbye.” – Jagged Edge, ‘Goodbye’
“Maybe I was just a stepping stone for you to get to that point in your life where you’d figure out what you wanted, or didn’t want. So to prove to you that I love you and all I want is for you to be happy, I’ll walk away.” – Unknown
“So kiss me hard ’cause this will be the last time that I let you. You will be back someday and this awkward kiss that tells of other people’s lips will be of service to keeping you away.” – dashboard confessional, “best deceptions”
“As you walk away I see the fire in your eyes and I can hear the laughter in your voice as you watch my heart break. And I’m frozen. I can’t find the words to tell you that I hate you. I can’t tell you how I wish you would just leave my life forever. And I can’t tell you how much I hope she hurts you. So instead I tell you I love you. Hoping that the fire in your eyes die down, and the laughter in your voice becomes tears in your eyes, and you turn around and unbreak my heart. Only to realize that wishes often dont come true, and hearts are more often then not, broken. And I stand there and watch you walk away.” – Unknown
“I think of a while ago, we might have had it all, I was so stupid then, you needed time to grow. But now just as things change, as well my feelings do. In time things rearrange and I’m so sick of chasing you.” – Blink182
“I feel safe around him, he’s like this great man in my life and he’s leaving.” – Sex and the City
“I can’t go any further down this love road and have my heart broken.” – Sex and the City
“I never thought saying two words would be so hard. I said them a thousand times, but it has never ever been so hard. That night as we stood in my drive way I didn’t want the night to end… I knew those words were coming but I didn’t wanna hear them. You said them then I said them too. I turned and walked away, tears in my eyes I will never forget that night I had to say good bye.” – Unknown
“Baby, one more thing before you go, in case you didn’t know, I wouldn’t trade you for the world.” – Weekend Excursion
“I wish there was something I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you, but I’d rather walk alone then chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.” – Ben Harper
“Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I’ll just say fare thee well, I ain’t sayin you treated me unkind, you coulda done better but I don’t mind, you just kinda wasted my precious time, but don’t think twice it’s all right.” – Bob Dylan
“I always wanted to try for you..I’d have done anything and more. But now you’re so far out of reach. I’ve tried to hold on..but I just can’t anymore. I’m tired of trying for something that never get any better. I’m tired of the pain. So from now on we’ll live our lives apart from each other, and we’ll pretend we don’t remember everything we’ve shared. But I would’ve done anything for you..and I still would.” – Allison
“I feel like I am holding you back. Like you’re missing out on something else by hanging on with me. And I don’t want you to miss anything.” – Allison
“Love hurts. It takes strength to keep it going and right now, I just don’t have the strength or the will power. Please just try to understand.” – Michelle Burns
“I love you, I really do, and yet you still hurt me. But thats ok, I can walk away. I can let you leave because in the end, I’ll know you didnt leave because I wasnt pretty enough, or smart enough, or nice enough. You left me because you don’t care about me, because you’re scared, and because you cant make up your mind. I didn’t do a thing wrong, except maybe choose the wrong guy.” – Unknown
“I don’t get how you can just walk away from this. We’ve worked so hard to be together, we’ve broken every rule they could have given us, and now you’re just leaving… I thought I meant more to you than that.” – Michelle Burns
“I can’t write this thing. I have to answer one simple question, right? Who am I? But if I have to leave town and you and my life to figure that out, what does that say?” – Party of Five
“I know exactly who I am, and I’m just afraid to say it out loud… I love you, so much. I really do. But I’m 19, and in college, and for me that means trying stuff out, like making mistakes. But mistakes where I can take an incomplete if things aren’t working out, not mistakes where other people’s lives are riding on what I choose.” – Party of Five
“I live to like you and I can’t like you anymore. So when you get your heart splattered all over hell and you’re feeling really low and dirty, don’t run to me to help pull you back up because, maybe, for the first time in your life, I won’t be there.” – Pretty in Pink
“There are just certain people who aren’t meant to fit in your life no matter how much you want them to.” – Dawson’s Creek
“Life has been screaming at us, ‘It’s not meant to be.’ I wish I could stay, but the fact of the matter is that that wouldn’t be good for either one of us. I’ve been away from home for too long, and you… you’ve been trying to find where you wanna be. I’m slowing you down. You’ll find what you’re looking for faster without me.” – Party of Five
“I don’t want to make you feel terrible anymore.” – 90210
“Cuz if I don’t go right now, things are gonna change.” – Roswell
“You’re leaving. You’re finally walking out that door. And it hurts because there’s nothing I can do to change your mind.” – Joanne Golden
“Honey help me out of this mess. I’m a stranger to myself, but don’t reach for me, I’m too far away. I don’t wanna talk cause there’s nothing left to say. So my darling, give me your absence tonight. Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside. Cause there’s no kind of loving that can make this all right. I’m trying to find a place I belong and I suddenly feel like a different person.” – Fiona Apple
“So I’ll ask you, If I walked away right now, would you come after me?”- Unknown