Drifting Apart Quotes

“He started to estrange her...
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart,
So broken as they drifted apart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“This bed yawns
beneath the weight
of our absent selves.”
― Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems

“People don't drfit apart for one specific reason. Well, you might be able to find a reason, but you could come up with one only after you made up your mind, a tired excuse tacked on after the fact. If their hearts were still in it and their bond was threatening to sever, you'd think one of them would step in and try to fix things. When no one does, you you know the bond has already been broken.”
― Keigo Higashino, ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟

“A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?”
― Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“Things are really fucked up right now. We hardly see each other anymore and when we do, we go to sleep on opposite sides of the bed”
― Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw...

“Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.”
― Jane Green, Dune Road

“And so, as we keep turning the pages of Life, we may find ourselves having touched the heart of each other lightly only to see us drifting apart forever.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Continents drift, and so do hearts.”
― John Mark Green

“I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any more.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

“She rattled around that huge house, growing more and more used to being on her own, resenting his presence more and more when he was back for the weekends, feeling like he was invading her space.
They became like strangers, ships that pass in the night, not able to agree on anything, not having any common ground”
― Jane Green

“My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself.
' I have to go to sleep' she'd scathe.
Then she'd roll over, and so would he. They'd be lying there like two strangers who just happened to be sharing the same bed. It was in those moments she began to plot her escape.”
― Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw...

“She: So where do we go from here?
He: Nowhere!
She: What do you mean?
He: You go your way and I go mine!
She: Can we have a future together?
He: I don't settle down! I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!”
― Avijeet Das

“A week goes by and I don't call Lucy or Dylan. I want to drift away from them - more than anything, I want to drift away. I sometimes imagine myself totally alone and I enjoy the feeling. And I mean something by alone, something more than the word holds. I mean something blank and pure and vacant, plus me. And also moral. This blank and pure vacancy that includes me that is also moral is so empty, it is so no one, that my presence in it makes me not exist, although I am still there, and that's what lifts all the weight.”
― Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

“But before he leaped away he asked, “Still best friends, right?”
A soft smile curled her lips, and her heart pulled back into place.
“Forever.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“At other times, he wondered whether it was the world that had lost its color, or his friends themselves. When had everyone become so alike?”
― Hanya Yanagihara , A Little Life

“I don't think we really talked about what our life would look like afterward. I had these expectations, and she had other expectations, and in the end, we just stopped... working toward the same goal, the same sort of life.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

“She: So where do we go from here?
He: Nowhere!
She: What do you mean?
He: You go your way and I go mine!
She: Can we have a future together?
He: I don't settle down! I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!

― Avijeet Das”
― Avijeet Das

“Drift into the Eversea.”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora and the Monster King

“Without sufficient pull inwards, towards the sanctity of the couple relationship, the relationship can become lost, powerless, and vulnerable to many divisive factors including other people. Without sufficient pull outwards, into the world, we can become so selfish and inward-looking as a couple that we stop growing. The relationship can become stale and the people involved can become suffocated with their own togetherness.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing