Leaving Quotes

1928 Leaving quotes by 1411 unique authors

Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;… — Margaret Atwood
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it… — Gregory Maguire
This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as… — Jennifer Weiner
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the… — Paulo Coelho
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little… — Walker Percy
With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I… — Jodi Picoult
Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together,… — Amy Tan
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling… — Joan Lowery Nixon
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees… — Louisa May Alcott
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from… — Bill Watterson
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.… — Haruki Murakami
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or… — Elizabeth Gilbert
People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to… — Xiaolu Guo
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different… — Jeffrey Eugenides
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone… — Nicole Krauss
And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out. — Stephen King
My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on… — Jennifer Donnelly
I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears,… — Denis Johnson
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone… — Sarah Dessen
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has… — Milan Kundera
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. — Dave Eggers
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my… — Marjane Satrapi
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti

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