Leaving Quotes · Page 83

To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.…

— Osamu Dazai

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are…

— Regina Spektor

Those smiles on my face are the only cure that's preventing me from shedding tears for your goodbye.

— Usman Ismaheel

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,…

— Tim O'Brien

Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at…

— Darrel Ray

In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving…

— Jim Thompson

I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want…

— Harper Lee

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

— Scott Westerfeld

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit…

— Simon Blackburn

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

— Keith Carter

You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium,…

— Mark Leyner

We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

— Angela Thirkell

The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this…

— William Golding

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

— Susan Wojcicki

He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her…

— Melissa Marr

WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power…

— Walt Whitman

Being on 'Corrie' is the best job I've ever had; leaving is going to break my heart.

— Debra Stephenson

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

— Anonymous

Countries that work with Europe should feel safer than they would if they worked with non-democratic regimes. Why isn't Europe building infrastructure…

— Sigmar Gabriel

After leaving 'Grey's,' I left 'Grey's' - like, let it go.

— Chyler Leigh

If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in…

— Judith McNaught

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm…

— Mirai Nagasu

We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.

— Liam Fox