Breaking up\u2014it happens to everyone. For most of us, it happens multiple times. Yet, why is it that every time you break up with someone, it feels so fresh and new? Maybe it’s because when you’re in the middle of moving on, it often feels like you’re stuck. You’re still thinking about the other person, still dwelling in the past, still feeling the feelings you felt, and still not ready to say goodbye. To help you realize you’re not alone, and give some much needed inspiration and advice from people who have been there before, we’ve compiled over 50 quotes about moving on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the poetry of Pablo Neruda and the lyrics of Ben Harper, to wise words from figures like Babe Ruth or Albert Camus, you’ll find moving on quotes to make you feel a little bit better about where you are and, hopefully, give you a little inspiration to move forward and move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
\n– Paulo Coelho<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s so hard to do, and so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes, you just have to walk away.
\n– Ben Harper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
\n– Mo Willems<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
\n– Prescott Bush<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t regret the past, just learn from it.
\n– Ben Ipok<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
\n– Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
\n– Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best way out is always through.
\n– Robert Frost<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
\n– T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
\n– Babe Ruth<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
\n– Hermann Hesse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
\n– Lao Tzu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
\n– Justin Timberlake<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.
\n– Mandy Hale<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can\u2019t move forward if you\u2019re still hanging on.
\n– Sue Fitzmaurice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space.
\n– Ena Snow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did.
\n– Markus Zusak<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get on with living and loving. You don\u2019t have forever.
\n– Leo Buscaglia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, now,
\nif little by little you stop loving me
\nI shall stop loving you little by little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If suddenly
\nyou forget me
\ndo not look for me,
\nfor I shall already have forgotten you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Pablo Neruda<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where does love go? When something you have taped on the wall falls off, what has happened to the stickum? It has relaxed. It has accumulated an assortment of hairs and fuzzies. It has said “Fuck it” and given up. It doesn’t go anywhere special, it’s just gone. Energy is created, and then it is destroyed. So much for the laws of physics. So much for chemistry. So much for not so much.
\n– Lorrie Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing, not just a waiting.
\n– Susan Sontag<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Listen, I\u2019m going to give you some advice, not because I think you need it, but because I feel like I\u2019ve earned it. The right, I mean. To give advice. Here it is: don\u2019t hold onto things. It\u2019s a problem the men in my family have. It\u2019s taken me a long time to figure this out. Me, my father, my grandfather, we collect things. We collect miseries. It\u2019s what we do. But sometimes the best thing to do is to just let things go. To let them pass.
\n– Joe Meno<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you’re dreaming.
\n– Alice Walker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don’t think about it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don’t think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Alice Munro<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.
\n– Jeffrey Eugenides<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. – Ernie Harwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
\n– Albert Camus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
\n– Isabel Allende<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The heart will break, but broken live on.
\n– Lord Byron<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
\n– Samuel Beckett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goodbye baby, that is all I have to left to say.
\nBut you have lost your good thing,
\nGo ahead and have your own way.
\n– Muddy Waters\/ McKinely Morganfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get out of my eyes teardrops, I’ve got to see my way around.
\n– Allen Toussaint<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I’d like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
\n– Raymond Carver<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside you. And it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends… you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he’ll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.
\n– Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) from The Holiday<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A breath
\ncan uncoil as you walk across your own muddy yard,
\nthe big dipper pouring night down over you, and everything
\nyou dread, all you can\u2019t bear, dissolves
\nand, like a needle slipped into your vein\u2014
\nthat sudden rush of the world.
\n– Ellen Bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you’d grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren’t for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
\n– Nicole Krauss<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone… so far.
\n– Marilyn Monroe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
\n– Nora Ephron<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
\n– Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.
\n– Ellen Degeneres<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are never stronger than when you land on the other side of despair.
\n– Zadie Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
\n– Johnny Cash<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
\n– William Faulkner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She can’t say to herself that it is really over, even though anyone else would say it was over, since he has moved to another city, hasn’t been in touch with her in more than a year, and is married to another woman.
\n– Lydia Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
\n– Nick Hornby<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?\u2014It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Caitlyn isn’t someone to get over. She’s someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can’t deny they ever happened. You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain. Hearts live by being wounded There are no happy endings. Inspiration from authors and famous personalities to help you move on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-on","category-quotes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n– Jack Kerouac<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n– Henry Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n– Judy Blume<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n– Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEndings are the saddest part.
\nSo just give me a happy middle
\nAnd a very happy start.
\n– Shel Silverstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"