Stephen King Quotes

Some things are hard to let go of.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

I’m trying to make myself let you go before Ms. Mary comes to get you, but you go and shiver at my touch and weaken my resolve to stop holding you.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

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

I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

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.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

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

Tell me why you're so hard to forget. Don't remind me, I'm not over it. Tell me why, I can't seem to face the truth, I'm just a little too not over you.