Quotes About Holding on

I was in a place composed of tall spires. There was a sound, not Mozartiana, but a kind of shattering, prophetic, organ-like sound, and I was walking on the vibrating spires upward from one pinnacle to another. It wasn't precarious. My footing was very stable; I was holding on to the air.

The point is, of course, that we live in total uncertainty already. This is nothing new. Our tensions are therefore simply our attempt to hold onto something and to create some certainty for ourselves. Yet, in creating something certain, we deny ourselves access to our great inner treasure. We do not see that we are only holding onto rabbit pellets.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost

Maybe someday, I'd find someone who'd prove he really loved me. Someone who'd hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who'd never lie to me.

Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.

Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don't look back.

Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don't hold on for long enough?

It will never happen for them, but somehow he's content in knowing that in some other place and time it would have. He holds her for ten seconds, twenty. Thirty. Then she slips away, and he returns to the dining hall. In a few minutes he hears her playing, the strains of her music pouring forth, filling Happy Jack with the upbeat, pulse-pounding sound track of the damned.

I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go.

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living.

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

Addiction is an anchor that won't break out.

Are you holding on to me because you think I'm going to disappear?

No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

Vianne knew about the kind of talon grief that wouldn't let go; she had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone.

could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

instead of the last stop for desperate

You can't heal a heart that has been smashed to pieces; you can only move forward, doing your best to hold the shards together until they eventually form into something new.

Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.

when things are tough, and when I don't think I can last another minute, if I just hold on, hold on tight and with everything I got, the shit gets better.