Leaving Quotes

1928 Leaving quotes by 1411 unique authors

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… — Ian Mcewan
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. — Nelson Algren
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. — Terry Pratchett
Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored. — George Saunders
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb… — Jeanette Winterson
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines… — Laurie R. King
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. — Joanne Harris
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. — John Kennedy Toole
All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/… — Charles Bukowski
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where… — Margaret Atwood
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… — Cormac McCarthy
Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. — Haruki Murakami
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of… — Elwyn Brooks White
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed… — Jack Johnson
Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd… — Sue Monk Kidd
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do… — Jonathan Safran Foer
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. — Terry Pratchett
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's… — Haruki Murakami
I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being… — Louisa May Alcott
I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows… — J D Salinger
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity:… — Allen Ginsberg
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. — Alan Watts

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