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  • #1
    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
    tags: love, relationships, romance
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humanity, kindness, relationships
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  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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  • #5
    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
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    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    ― Nick Hornby
    tags: films, music, relationships
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  • #7
    Tom Robbins
    “When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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  • #8
    Ken Kesey
    “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: relationships
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  • #9
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: books, relationships
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  • #10
    “That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.”
    ― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You
    tags: dependability, love, lovers, relationships
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  • #11
    Mandy Hale
    “A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: being-single, dating, goals, hard-to-get, holding-out-for-the-best, love, loving-yourself, not-settling, playing-hard-to-get, positive-thinking, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, standards, the-single-woman, validation
    756 likes

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  • #12
    Alain de Botton
    “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: intimacy, relationships, weirdness
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #15
    James Dashner
    “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
    ― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
    tags: absence, alone, breakup, broken, day, felt, forgive, gone, her, i, i-love-you, in, it, know, like, loneliness, lonely, mirror, miss, mouth, need, no, one, run, sad, separated, sorry, teeth, the, they, to, up, waking, want, was, were, with, wouldn-t, you, your
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  • #16
    David Foster Wallace
    “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: loneliness, longing
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  • #17
    “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
    ― Calla Quinn, All the Time
    tags: distance, loneliness, missing, missing-someone, missing-you
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  • #18
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: depression, loneliness
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  • #19
    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
    tags: humanity, isolation, lies, loneliness, misunderstanding
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  • #20
    Rupi Kaur
    “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
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  • #21
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
    tags: affairs, breakup, life, love, women
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  • #22
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
    tags: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish
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  • #23
    I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit
    “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: breakup, commit, deserve, goodbye, happiness, inspirational, life, love, motivational, relationship, respect
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  • #24
    Nick Hornby
    “Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: breakup, hurt
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  • #25
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
    tags: abstinence, affair, apart, breakdown, breakup, celibacy, celibate, chaste, cheating, courage, divorce, end, enstrangement, falling-in-love, falling-in-love-with-a-beast, final-decision, key, lock-up, love-affair, mercilless, michael-bassey-johnson, padlock, parting, sea, single
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  • #26
    Ranata Suzuki
    “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
    ― Ranata Suzuki
    tags: beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-thoughts, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, ocean, ocean-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, silence, silence-quote, silence-quotes, the-one-that-got-away, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you
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  • #27
    Ranata Suzuki
    “Our parting was like a stalemate….
    Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.
    And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.”
    ― Ranata Suzuki
    tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, chess, chess-quotes, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, stalemate, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you
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  • #28
    Charles Dickens
    “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: breakup, broken-heart, dickens, love
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  • #29
    David Foster Wallace
    “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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  • #30
    Fiona Apple
    “When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
    ― Fiona Apple
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