Elizabeth Berg Quotes

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.

There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It's a very easy feeling to understand - the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

And I am in retirement from love.

To love makes one solitary.

In love, you pay as you leave.

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.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

It's sad when people break up.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.