Elif Safak Quotes

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Don't get attached to anything.

Don't get too attached to anything.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you.

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

In the last few years in particular, I've found that it's okay to let go of culture rather than hold on to it. And by letting go, you kind of realise that it's there anyway.

Don't get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

At some point, we all have to let go.

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.