Top 250 Lang Leav Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.”

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52. “Just Friends I know that I don’t own you, and perhaps I never will, so my anger when you’re with her, I have no right to feel. I know that you don’t owe me, and I shouldn’t ask for more; I shouldn’t feel so let down, all the times when you don’t call. What I feel – I shouldn’t show you, so when you’re around I won’t; I know I’ve no right to feel it but it doesn’t mean I don’t.”

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53. “We were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.”

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54. “Sometimes I am caught between poetry and prose, like two lovers I can’t decide between. Prose says to me, let’s build something long and lasting. Poetry takes me by the hand, and whispers, come with me, let’s get lost for awhile.”

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55. “Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.”

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56. “Sea of Strangers In a sea of strangers, you’ve longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores. The arms that yearn to someday hold me, will ache beneath the heavy oars. Please take your time and take it slowly; as all you do will run its course. And nothing else can take what only – was always meant as solely yours.”

— Lang Leav

57. “The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.”

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58. “The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.”

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59. “I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.”

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60. “Because sooner or later, all kinds of love – crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.”

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61. “It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was a dreamer, and you were a traveler. We met at the crossroads. I saw love in your smile, and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch, and I was already home.”

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62. “After all this time, my love for you burns constant and true, my guiding light, my morning star. Time is testament to the relentless, unyielding power of this old, ancient love. A love I will carry with me, from eons to oceans to inches, back to you.”

— Lang Leav

63. “Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.”

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64. “It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.”

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65. “Who you love and who loves you back determines so much in your life.”

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66. “I know you are scared. Who could blame you? Love is a hurricane wrapped inside a chrysalis. And you are a girl walking into the storm.”

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67. “Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.”

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68. “I have been quiet lately, I know. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I have too much.”

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69. “Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.”

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70. “And if nothing ever comes of it, at least I have known the feeling, this wonderful sense of optimism. It is something I can always keep close to me – to draw from in my darkest hour like a ray of unspent sunshine. No matter what happens next, I will always be glad to know there is someone like you in this world.”

— Lang Leav

71. “I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer.”

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72. “I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.”

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73. “She walks the earth freely, yet her feet never touch the ground. Many hands will reach for her, but she cannot be anchored. She belongs to no one, to nothing, to nowhere. When you meet her, you will recognize her for what she is – a free spirit, a wandering star. She will fit in your arms like she was made to be there. And she will show you what it means to hold something you can never hold on to.”

— Lang Leav

74. “To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.”

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75. “I was coming to the end of a difficult period in my life, though when the end isn’t in plain sight, you don’t realize how close you are.”

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76. “I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.”

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77. “Slowly I am withering – a flower deprived of sun; longing to belong to – somewhere or someone.”

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78. “Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.”

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79. “A Stranger There is a love I reminisce Like a seed I’ve never sown Or lips that im yet to kiss and eyes not met my own Hands that wrap around my wrists and arms that feel like home I wonder how it is I MISS these things I have never known...”

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80. “One day you will be nostalgic for today.”

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81. “It was a gentle love, a tactile love. It was all hands and lips and hearts in tandem. There was motion in our bodies and emotion in our discourse. We were a symphony of melody and melancholy. When you find peace in another’s presence, there is no mistaken.”

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82. “But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me – not at all.”

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83. “Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.”

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84. “Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who beaks it.”

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85. “I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.”

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86. “You’re still crying about him aren’t you? Silly girl. What good will it do you to spill those sky blu tears? You meant either everything to him or absolutely nothing at all.”

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87. “I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don’t know if what we had was love, but if it wasn’t, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.”

— Lang Leav

88. “Of all you’ve used against me, the worst has been my words.”

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89. “You turn him into poetry because you can’t have him any other way.”

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90. “Which is why I am not here to tell you tomorrow will be a new day. That the sun will go on shining. Or there are plenty of fish in the sea. What I will tell you is this; it’s okay to be hurting as much as you are. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary – because it makes you so much more human. And though I can’t promise it will get better any time soon, I can tell you that it will – eventually. For now, all you can do is take your time. Take all the time you need.”

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91. “That’s the thing about happiness. It doesn’t require justification.”

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92. “You are a toolbox, and you have to add stuff to it and build on it. I think the more tools you have, the better life gets.” “I like that idea.” “That’s my mission in life. To keep adding to the toolbox.”

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93. “There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue; those that could have loved me so and I’ll never wonder who.”

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94. “Life has a way of working itself out. You’ll see.”

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95. “Where are you?” She asked. “I have been searching all my life.” “Stop looking for me,” Love replied, “and I will find you.”

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96. “I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.”

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97. “I wrote your name over and over – on scraps of paper, in books and on the back of my wrists. I carved it like sacred markings into trees and the tops of my thighs. Years went by and the scars have vanished, but the sting has not left me. Sometimes when I read a book, parts will lift from the pages in an anagram of your name. Like a code to remind me it’s not over. Like dyslexia in reverse.”

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98. “Fear isn’t a reason when it comes to love – it’s an excuse. Anyone who has ever been in love will tell you that.”

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99. “If they were meant to be in your life, nothing cover ever make them leave. If they weren’t, nothing in the world could make them stay.”

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100. “Some days it felt like a burden, to smile for you. To keep the lines of worry from etching into your forehead.”

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