Staying Quotes

“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Whatever comes, let it come, what stays let stay, what goes let go.”
― Papaji

“You forgot that sometimes, fair value comes from change, and death, and sacrifice. You can't have everything and give fair value. You can't stop your clock and expect to stay a part of the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“To want to run away is an essence of being human, it transforms any staying through the transfigurations of choice. To think about fleeing from circumstances, from a marriage, a relationship or from a work is part of the conversation itself and helps us understand the true distilled nature of our own reluctance. Strangely, we are perhaps most fully incarnated as humans, when part of us does not want to be here, or doesn’t know how to be here. Presence is only fully understood and realized through fully understanding our reluctance to show up. To understand the part of us that wants nothing to do with the full necessities of work, of relationship, of loss, of doing what is necessary, is to learn humility, to cultivate self-compassion and to sharpen that sense of humor essential to a merciful perspective of both a self and another.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

“night opens
I enter
night shuts
I don't leave”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.”
― Darren Hardy

“It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Path of Minor Planets

“She hopes she might convince her sea monster that she will not abandon her.”
― Melissa Barbeau, The Luminous Sea

“Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.”
― RSCruz

“It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
When you're already gone.”
― Margo T. Rose, The Words

“Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.”
― Steven Magee

“She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“In reality, for anybody to make real impact, he ought to be real. He ought to know the real position of materialism in purposefulness. He ought to understand the real reasons to act and the consequences for staying dormant. He ought to know the people who matter most in making true impacts and build the best synergy. As a matter of fact, he ought to be ready to embrace the real challenges that come with staying purposeful and making real impact. In fact, he ought to be able to turn what least counts and what is so uncanny to what really counts. He ought to be a mindset changer.He ought to know the real essence of time and timing and the value of patience and assertiveness. He ought to be strong. Living to leave footprints that count is what will make us count”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Maybe the truth is that saying goodbye seems to me a rejection of human warmth - even the minimal warmth that makes us feel solitude less. I mean real solitude, which rises up by surprise and lasts a few seconds, the solitude that derives not from lack of company or affection, but from our innate separateness from one another.”
― Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, Incidental Inventions

“10 Minutes - Staying is a concept of a lie.”
― Deyth Banger

“Our faith is often embodied in the relationships and neighborhoods where we live. In our world of globalization, technology, and mobility, we've misplaced the sacredness of place.
The act of staying and living in our place has an impact on us practically, of course, but also on us theologically. It's not always sexy to stay put, is it? In most of my church tradition, no one ever mentioned the holy work of staying.”
― Sarah Bessey, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith

“One woman married for twenty-five years said, "Many times, it simply seemed easier to stay than to figure out how to divvy up the books. And then we broke on through to the other side...like playing a video game where you suddenly hit a new level that you didn't even know was there.

"When I wanted to leave, it didn't seem like a good time for various reasons," a woman married for fifteen years told me, "and then when it was a convenient time, I no longer wanted to. And so you sort of stagger on and then you think, "He makes me crazy sometimes, but what would it be like not to have him around? I wouldn't like it.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“Some people are meant to stay put, and some people are meant to go. But running is different than going. When you're running, you spend the whole time looking over your shoulder. To go forward, you gotta look forward.”
― Gretchen Anthonyy

“When leaving becomes an option staying becomes a choice”
― Malaika Gilani

“I never thought it would be hard to leave. People say it is, but to me it seemed that it was the waiting that was most difficult, the trying to keep alive something precious inside me buried so deep. Staying was killing it off for sure, no matter how hard I tried to keep it beating.”
― Corinne Beenfield, Where Green Meets Blue

“The ancient sapien instinct: love is an approximation to danger.
You make me feel safe, so I want to run away.”
― Jireh Deng

“If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to stay. That the impulse to live was in him stronger than he might have imagined, undiminished by his bleak circumstances.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

“12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.”
― Deyth Banger

“SLeeping is a time lost, staying with your parents it's the great time of depression.”
― Deyth Banger

“...and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.”
― Rose Tremain

“Don’t confuse staying the course with clinging to a cursed ‘how’.”
― Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

“Know when to stay, and when to leave the room.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Nicholas was still afraid; desperately so.

But the only thing more terrifying than the thought of leaving the Library was the thought of staying.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Don’t go away mentally or spiritually as much as you may want to. Take a stand to stay. Stay. Stay like you’ve never stayed before. Should you feel tired and want to stop, know that is the first destination the ego will take you to . . . . Don’t go back to sleep, stay. Stay awake and press on. The journey has begun.”
― Melanie DewBerry, The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature