Leaving Quotes

1928 Leaving quotes by 1411 unique authors

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation… — Douglas Hofstadter
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as… — William Shakespeare
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a… — Khaled Hosseini
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, but you have… — Mark Leyner
Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and… — Terry Pratchett
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own… — Tim O'Brien
Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search… — Evelyn Waugh
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave… — William Arthur Ward
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will,… — Victor Hugo
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,… — Suzanne Weyn
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have… — Unknown Author
You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. — Jodi Picoult
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the… — C.S. Lewis
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying. — Wilkie Collins
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical… — Sharon Kay Penman
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the… — Banksy
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable… — Yukio Mishima

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