Thought Catalog

28 Beautifully Painful Quotes About Lost Love And Those Who Leave

As I looked you in the eyes, I saw the cold look of a stranger. 
Kirsten Corley
November 22, 2016
“Try losing the only thing you care about and not going insane. I dare you.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“Losing you would be like losing part of me, only it’d be losing the best part of me.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“Whatever may or may not happen in the future, I find comfort in knowing someone like you even exists in the world.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“You gotta believe there’s something better for you than someone who makes your heart hurt and someone who gives you a halfhearted love story.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“You’ve been waiting by your phone every night for him to answer. He has answered, in silence. It’s just not what you want to hear.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“I think one of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is just picking up and getting on with things when you haven’t a clue how you got there in the first place.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“It isn’t you. I want you to know that some people just aren’t ready for a good thing to come into their life. And when that happens, they run because it’s unlike anything they’ve ever known.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“Darling, just because someone isn’t loving you back doesn’t mean you are doing it wrong. It just means they are wrong. Please don’t mistake the two.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“When you walk away with an uncertainty of the next time your paths will cross, ‘goodbye’ becomes the saddest word.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“The measure of a person’s character is defined by how they choose to exit your story.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“I challenge you to let go of everyone and only reach again to those few people who are still hanging on for dear life refusing to let you go.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“If you are good to them I promise you, darling, they will miss you.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“The question should never be why is someone leaving but rather why are you wasting time caring about someone who doesn’t want to stay.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“And when someone leaves, let them go without a chase. Allow them to figure out what they need to. And trust once they find those answers they are look-ing for, they’ll come back.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“To lose oneself to another person is life’s greatest tragedy.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“One of the hardest things you’ll ever do is walk away from someone you love, admitting that love in itself wasn’t enough to save you.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“He said he’d call me right back. That was the last I ever heard of him. And even though years have passed, if he called back I’d still answer.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“You still love me?’
‘Yes.’
‘How do you know?’
‘Because I don’t hate you, after all, you put me through.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“She said goodbye with tears in her eyes not because she didn’t love him. But she knew love wasn’t supposed to hurt you this much.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“She kissed his cheek and said goodbye for what she knew would be a final time. And that was the beauty and tragedy of it, really: getting what you want, only to run away when it got too close.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“She was caught somewhere between missing him and respecting herself enough not to show it.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“She wasn’t meant to be healed or have her broken pieces put back together. She just needed someone to run their fingers around her rough edges and say I love you.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“As I looked you in the eyes, I saw the cold look of a stranger and I knew all we had in common was the past we wanted to forget.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“We ended the same ways we started, as strangers. Only this time, I had no desire to want to know you.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“Most of all I’m afraid of forgetting you. Maybe that’s why I’ve been holding on so tight.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“I loved him a little more than I loved myself at the time. I think that’s why it hurt so much to lose him.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“And in the eyes of everyone that came after I looked for you in a desperate attempt to find myself once more.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love
“And before I knew it, it was over. But you didn’t bother to ask me if my heart was ready for that sort of thing yet.”
— Kirsten Corley, But Before You Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Lost Love