Top 90 Jacqueline Simon Gunn Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Love makes people do crazy things. And not feeling loved can bring people to the edge of madness.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

2. “The pain of running relieves the pain of living.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

3. “Sometimes we don’t know where we are going until we get there.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

4. “Sometimes, we miss the truth when it’s right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

5. “I can’t reconcile who he was, the man who was so kind and loving and considerate, with who he is now. I know the truth is who I’m seeing now, but I keep hoping the former man will come back. It’s like I love someone who doesn’t even exist.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

7. “Love should be easy. Life is hard. Relationships are complicated. But the love, that’s the one thing we should be able to count on.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

8. “I used to think that life was only about progress, getting to a destination, the final outcome. But this isn’t quite right. Life is more of a process, and as much as goals are important, the in-the-moment experiences along the way are really where authentic living takes place. Running has taught me this. In fact, running has been my greatest teacher of life.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

9. “You will always be my first love. My first everything. No love will be like the one I had for you, but I think the loves that come afterward can be just as good and most of the time better, because we are better. I was jealous when you first started dating her, because I could tell she was different. I kept wondering what she had that I didn’t, but it wasn’t her that was different, it was you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

10. “Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

11. “You are the stars hidden by clouds. I know you’re there even when I can’t see you. Your shine peeks out and reaches me in the depths of my soul. Tell me your arms are long enough to reach me across oceans. Tell me someday we will be together, somehow, some way. Tell me that this love we have can survive being together as well as we’ve survived being apart. Tell me we are more than the chasm of our divide.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

12. “Not everyone is going to love us. And that’s OK. There’s nothing like rejection to make a vulnerable person question their worth. But do not let your reflection in the mirror be distorted by what you imagined someone else saw.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

13. “It’s unfortunate that inflated self-worth is being mistaken for confidence when it’s really an indication of the opposite. True confidence is reflected through humility, vulnerability and kindness. It’s quiet. It’s subtle. It does not overwhelm. It does not shrink others down to elevate oneself and it doesn’t not knock others down to give the illusion of being above.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

14. “Don’t blame yourself. You believed what he told you, because you trusted him. You’re a warm, open, trusting person. And you’re trustworthy. Trustworthy people like us always get screwed, because we expect other people to be like us. Don’t let his bad behavior make you question yourself.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

15. “Sometimes the only way to hold on, is to let go.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

16. “Somewhere buried deep in my heart was a longing for him, for us, for all that had remained unfinished. I only wished that my heart understood the way my mind did, that some questions could never be answered, that some words needed to remain unsaid, that some of our most significant relationships needed to be severed.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

17. “Kiss me hard, let your wetness linger along my lips. I want to drown against you, our bodies woven together and raging in ecstatic synchrony. I don’t want to lie in an easy, hollow embrace. I want to feel the hunger emanating from you. I want the desire to swallow me. I want it to hurt. I want you to show me that this matters. That we matter. That you would risk it all for me. Love me with everything you have or don’t love me at all.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

18. “I felt his pain as my own and I wanted to touch him, feel him, reach inside his fractured heart and pull out all of the love he buried inside. I wanted to kiss every inch of his skin. I wanted to feel his brokenness against mine, like if we held each other hard enough something within each of us would finally heal.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

19. “It’s never the right time if it’s the wrong person.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

20. “I loved being near you. Even though I felt that bubble you had around you, even though I never quite knew what you were thinking, damn, did I love being near you. Somehow, I knew you would rip me apart and drown me. Somehow, I knew we wouldn’t last. It didn’t matter. You were my sun. I loved feeling you upon me, around me, between me. Even though you could only love me from a distance, I didn’t care. I never felt more warmth inside of me than when you were against me.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

21. “Sometimes the truth isn’t obvious; sometimes it exists in the silence, in the emptiness between the spaces, but we’re too afraid to hear it.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

22. “Life is messy. No matter how hard we try to create order, something happens to cause the structure we created to falter. Maybe that’s the only way for us to learn. If everything stayed neat and orderly, then we would never be forced to grow and change. We need something unexpected to help us make sense of where we are and to guide us to where we need to go.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

23. “Between the empty spaces is a place called forever.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

24. “I fell in love with the expression in his eyes when he looked at me.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

25. “I learned to run toward the pain, not away from it. There is nothing like that feeling: pushing, your legs like two powerhouses, your cadence a seemingly effortless rhythm in sync with your mind, every emotional pain you ever experienced washed away by your power to endure. A personal thought I often have after a great run: The pain of running relieves the pain of living.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

26. “Humans were always trying to fit in. Many of them didn’t feel like they belonged. When someone came along and was brave enough to show the truth of who they were, flaws and all, it could inspire others to accept themselves as they were.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

27. “I wanted her to know that she was. She was whoever she saw herself as. I wanted her to know that we defined who we were, and we couldn’t let the mirror or Facebook or even the people closest to us make that decision. We couldn’t let others who had things we didn’t – like tails – make us feel any less than we were.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

28. “Sometimes we have to get out of our own way.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

29. “You have been with me all along, even when it hurt like hell you have been with me, because I love you. And when you love someone they are with you forever.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

30. “I wanted to keep him there to hold me up, to rely on, to remind me that there were places we found in other people that were safer than any walls could keep us.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

31. “She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

32. “I’ve always been so full of melancholy. But I’ve realized it’s because I’m alive. I’m open. I feel. I carry all things in my heart and sometimes I mistake the weight of it for heaviness when it’s really fullness.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

33. “You could crush me right now if you walked away, but I would survive because I would know that I gave it everything I had.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

34. “She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who were able to love deeply enough that they could be destroyed by it. For a moment, he knew that gaze intimately, remembering it from a time long gone. The ache of a shattered belief once known. He knew that feeling.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

35. “Her thoughts were like the moon eclipsing the sun.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

36. “Love. The only emotion that could twist you into such a knot that you could no longer distinguish between wanting to be with someone and wanting to destroy everything you shared. Love. The only emotion that could break the same person it had healed.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

37. “Maybe my fear wasn’t that he couldn’t sustain emotional intimacy, but that he could. Maybe the scariest relationships were the ones where both people wanted to be close.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

38. “Maybe it’s better to be with someone you don’t love too much. Someone you love just enough, but not so much that it could destroy you.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

39. “Love was feeling the person everywhere, under your skin, in every strand of your hair, in your heart, in your bones, in the tone of your voice when you said their name. Love wasn’t always about being with the person, it was feeling that your world was better just because they lived. Even if you weren’t ever going to be together, he was the air you breathed, invisible but everywhere.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

40. “Sometimes when we least expect it, love gives us a second chance.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

41. “Happiness is a frightening state of being. If we let ourselves be happy, then there is something that can always be taken from us. In one minute, one second, everything can change.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

42. “When someone shares their distress or their inadequacies, the natural inclination is to comfort them. To mollify. When we do this we brush over their emotions, often because they make us uncomfortable. Most times, people don’t want a blanket. They want someone who is willing to stand outside and shiver with them in the cold.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

43. “I rested my chin on my paws, wondering if she’d ever be able to open her heart to another man-human. I knew firsthand how hard it was to try again, to let yourself be loved by someone who could love you back after you’d been hurt. And I knew sometimes when someone said mean things if you were sensitive you couldn’t shake it no matter how much you knew it wasn’t the truth.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

44. “We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

45. “Go where the silence says something good.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

46. “Sometimes the beginnings of relationships are the hardest. People always say the beginning is the easiest, but two people trying to let their guards down and be open to intimacy can be hard too.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

47. “In a world filled with envy and greed, we have dared to find love. We have dared to be vulnerable. And that is worth fighting for.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

48. “I think what we want is within us from the beginning. I think fear can distract us from knowing the truth of who we are and what we want.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

49. “Sweat dripped down his chest. She never thought she could envy a piece of fabric, until she saw the T-shirt kissing his skin the way she wanted to.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

50. “I needed to walk away. I needed to walked away without trying to fix him or our relationship, but leaving the pieces broken wasn’t easy. It was like leaving shards of the most beautiful glass scattered across your floor, because the pieces were too shattered. And now, you had to step cautiously around the brokenness in order not to slice yourself on the remains.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn