Over It Quotes - Page 27

• You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Pain, Pregnancy

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• Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Happiness, Notebook, Movie Love

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 15, 2011

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• I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Horse, Fun

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1951.

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• Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Museums, Sometimes, Empty

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• You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Thinking, Sea

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Taken, Writing, Guy

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• There's no direction I can go in. If I met someone else, what meaning would there be left? If the pain goes, does that mean I never loved her? How can I get over it? I can't, I mustn't. But what else am I going to do?

  Marie Phillips

  Pain, Mean, Doe

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• The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made of." "Rest you brains and do not worry about the wall," replied the Woodman, "when we have climbed over it we shall know what is on the other side.

  L. Frank Baum

  Wall, Thinking, Worry

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• You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Get Over

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• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Bad Ass, People

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• I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

  Betty Smith

  Love, Happiness, Fall

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• When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mean, Doe, Way

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• So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a black onyx heart on a silver chain, worn privately, under her clothes, close to her body, all her life. The guilt, the beauty, everything. It wasnt over, it had only begun. Well ok then, Okay.

  Janet Fitch

  Passion, Heart, Clothes

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• She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Heart, Instruction, Understood

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.22, A&C Black

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• When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker

  Katsura Hoshino

  Thinking, Forever, Matter

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• Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Mad, Gone, Cuz

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Happy Life, Journey

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• ...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

  Spider Robinson

  Design, Failing, Knows

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• I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Sometimes, Objects

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• I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

  Margaret Mead

  Religious, Animal, Hands

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• She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fear, Prayer, Heart

  Marilynne Robinson (2008). “Home: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Falling In Love, Men

  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Francis W. P. Bolger, Elizabeth R. Epperly (1992). “My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery”, Oxford University Press, 1992

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• War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

  T. H. White

  War, Men, Fire

  "The Once and Future King".

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• You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

  Martin Buber

  Heaven, Rakes, Delight

  Martin Buber (2013). “Tales of the Hasidim”, p.817, Schocken

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