Charles Bukowski Quotes

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

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.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.” “Really? Was that how you quit me?

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.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

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.

You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

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

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, he’s still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

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

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

And I am in retirement from love.