Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker reflects on a missed opportunity to stay together longer, noting how the timing of departure changed the outcome.
In plain terms
If you hadn't left so soon, we could have stayed together until June.
What can you take from it?
Timing can drastically change the duration and quality of a relationship.

Where it applies

  • relationship ending
  • planning future
  • seasonal change

Putting it to work

  • evaluate timing
  • communicate needs
  • reflect on choices

Questions to consider

  • How much of your regret is about timing?
  • What if you had chosen differently?

Another view

It assumes staying longer would have necessarily been better.

More from Pete Yorn

  1. When you come back from your escape. Then I could follow you to hell. ~ 'Committed'

    Permalink to quote #36
  2. I'm old enough to feel the way I do. And I know that you are true, it's just a part of my genes. ~ 'June'

    Permalink to quote #38
  3. Once you make your plan you follow it just right. ~ 'Committed'

    Permalink to quote #35

Related quotes

  1. Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

    Dale DautenDale Dauten quote #1
  2. Forse, se tu gustassi anco una volta La millesima parte de la gioie Che gusta un cor amato riamando, Diresti, ripentita, sospirando: Perduto e tutto il tempo C…

    Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso quote #1
  3. Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?

    Ralph HodgsonRalph Hodgson quote #1