Unable To Let Go Quotes

• Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Letting Go, World, Might

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Letting Go, Essence, Special

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin

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• The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Letting Go, Pain, War

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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• He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Letting Go, Pain, Voice

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• I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Letting Go, Real, Character

  Source: slushpile.net

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• I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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