Eve Ensler Quotes

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

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

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

You don't have to give up to let go

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

One of the most scariest thing in life,is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you,is...yourself Demi lovato

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Everyone's gotta make their own way.

I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. "it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.