Holding On Quotes

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
― Lili St. Crow, Jealousy

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
― Shaun Hick

“Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you wish could stretch out like a hammock for you to lie in, well, those moments leave the quickest and take everything good with them, little burglars, those moments, those hours, those days you loved the most.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you will suffer guilt, and you will second-guess yourself, but for your own sanity and quality of life, there will come a time where you hand them to God, with your love, and trust Him to be who and what He is. May our Lord comfort you.”
― Lee Goff

“Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.”
― Lauren Oliver, Hana

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“And now—our love is so true, I won’t take a step without you. Thank God, you came. If you love me, please don’t ever let me go.”
― Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep

“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost”
― Kevin Arnold

“No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream.”
― Mouloud Benzadi مولود بن زادي

“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Sometimes you win or sometimes you lose.
I don't wanna lose you, Don't even own you.
I just wanna stay right here, Until never dawns”
― Corinne Bailey Rae

“for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“There's always hope. We can give up, or we can hold on to it. We can grasp it until the stars burn out and the world collapses. Because even in the most desperate times, in the more uninhabitable places, it's there. It's there in the spots you least expect. We simply must be brave enough to look for it.”
― Israh Azizi, The General

“Sometimes letting go is braver than holding on until you break.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“I wanted to hold you until you weren't falling apart anymore, and I wanted to be the stitches that helped you heal, but I knew that I'd just infect your wounds further, so I couldn't stay.”
― K. Weikel, Replay: Lifeline

“I only hold on so I can let go.”
― Kris Kidd

“There are so many things I want to remember, even if the memories break my heart.”
― Stefanie Lozinski, Manifest

“Life is a delicate dance between holding on and letting go, finding balance in the ever-changing rhythms of existence.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“You don't deserve that. You don't deserve everything that I've laid at your feet, and you sure as hell don't deserve the fact that I'm still trying to hold onto you. That when it comes time for you to leave, I'm still going to want you. Even when you inevitably do leave, I'll still want you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Holding on to someone who doesn't love me is akin to clutching fragile petals in the wind, yearning for a love that remains elusive.
In the quiet strength of letting go, I find the courage to embrace my own worth, like a delicate blossom unfurling beneath the sun.
For in releasing what cannot be, I discover the space for a love that echoes my own heartbeat—
a love that blooms authentically,
rooted in the fertile turf
of self-respect.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“In the crossroads of holding on and letting go, find solace in understanding that sometimes releasing someone is the kindest way to love them.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“How much we regret, how much we hold on dearly for our lives for the very past that is now gone, all these events that once had such an enormous sway over us and are now so very insignificant. But how we hold on to these memories for our dear life. It seems to be all we have. The interesting question now is, are memories something we should cherish given how much joy they can provide or something we should better let go of, considering how much anguish they can cause?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“I can’t hold on to this moment any longer. It won’t stretch and stay with me no matter how badly I want it to.”
― Sarina Bowen, Him

“She’s in the rain
You wanna hurt yourself, I’ll stay with you
You wanna make yourself go through the pain
It’s better to be held than holding on”
― The Rose

“Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember.”
― Hanako Footman, Mongrel