Steve Martin Quotes

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

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

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

'Teenage Dream' was the hardest breakup for me.

I think, for other people who have lost someone and have loved again, it's a beautiful thing. But it's just not really on my horizon.

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more walking around with my head down, I'm so over being blue crying over you.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

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.