Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

I'm still friends with most of my exes. There are only one or two people that I'll never talk to again.

Sometimes, it's hard holding back the truth, how you really feel, and sometimes the best way is let it out and move forward.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

I'm not friends with a lot of my exes, and I think there's a reason for that.

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

I'm pretty sure we've all had a situation where a certain ex or person finds their way back in your life. I've realized that it's not about dwelling over it and overthinking.

I'm friends with all my exes, as they were all friends.

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?

All my ex-boyfriends, bar one, are my best friends.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.

To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.

For me to give my advice to somebody who's thinking about going back to an ex or keeps on going back to their ex, you'll know when you're done. You'll know when you're finished with that person. You'll know when you're over them and ready to move, but nobody else can tell you that.