This post contains some of the best ghosting quotes.
Ghosting Quotes
1. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” ― Helen Rowland
2. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”— Mae West
3. “All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left.”― Carrie Ryan
4. “Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”― Jennifer Niven
5. “But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?”― Susane Colasanti
6. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.”— Robin Sharma
7. “Do people always fall in love with things they can’t have?’ ‘Always,’ Carol said, smiling, too.” ― Patricia Highsmith
8. “Endure the present, and watch for better things.”— Virgil
9. “Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.” ― Harriet Evans
10. “He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.”—Christina Yang
11. “He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.” — Jennifer Weiner
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12. “He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.”― Emily Brontë
13. “I hated myself for going; why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
14. “I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?” ― John Green
15. “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” ― L. Frank Baum
16. “I’m choosing happiness over suffering. I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
17. “If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.”— Oprah Winfrey
18. “If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”— Ivan Nuru
19. “If you really want closure… at some point, you have to shut the door.”— Jacki Wells Wunderlin
20. “If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.”— Unknown
21. “In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!” — Andre Aciman
22. “It becomes easy to leave once you realize you didn’t belong there.” ― Farhad Writings
23. “It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.” ― Susan Sontag
24. “Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.” ― Nicole Lyons
25. “Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.”― Javan
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26. “My ex is living proof of how stupid I can be”— Unknown
27. “My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.” ― Meredith Taylor
28. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”— Mark Twain
29. “Not friends, not enemies, just strangers with some memories”— Unknown
30. “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt
31. “Of course. That’s what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”― Lauren Oliver
32. “Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”― Jeannette Walls
33. “Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.” — Tabitha Suzuma
34. “Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”—Cheryl Strayed
35. “She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.” ― Julia Quinn
36. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”― E.A. Bucchianeri
37. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”—Faraaz Kazi
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38. “Some people don’t realize what they have until it’s gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.” — Stephan Labossiere
39. “Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.” — Reuben Holmes II
40. “Sometimes you have to unfollow people in real life.” — Unknown
41. “The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.”― Beau Taplin
42. “The feeling was enough, I think. Just to know it. To have it in my bones, make it a part of my history. There was a beautiful ‘before,’ without an ‘after’ to wreck it on the other side.” ― Emma Lord
43. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi
44. “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” — Jonathan Harnisch
45. “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”― Elizabeth Gilbert
46. “The only way to leave forever is to do so as quickly as possible.” ― Anna Godbersen
47. “The way they leave tells you everything.”— Rupi Kaur
48. “There are people out there who do this. They pick up and they leave. Sometimes they were never really there. Other times they are with you, but in their minds they are a thousand miles away. They are taking a walk down an endless road; they are standing in a field of daisies on some unknown cliff; they are floating through space.”― Shilo Niziolek
49. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
50. “There is no need to know the reason for why everything happens the way it does. We never question the good, so we mustn’t question the bad. Just trust that what’s meant to happen did, for a reason, and keep moving on.”— Kylie Francis
51. “They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.” ― John Irving
52. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
53. “This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too… This happens every day. Every day this happens and scarcely anybody cares.”― Daniel Handler
54. “When someone leaves you, maybe you get a reason and maybe you don’t. I don’t know which is better.”― Jeff Zentner
55. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation, trying to put the pieces together. Or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”– Tupac Shakur
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56. “You didn’t break my heart; you freed it.”— Steve Maraboli
57. “You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels, and hazardous waste. But people?” ― Autumn Doughton
58. “You get used to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”― Rachel Ward, Numbers
59. “You know how it feels when you’re someplace and you ask yourself, Why am I here? That’s how it is with me all the time. I can’t wait to leave. To go from wherever I am to some other place. It never ends.”― Etgar Keret
60. “You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.” ― Fannie Flagg
61. “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.” — Tablo
62. “You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”— Sonya Teclai
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