Leaving Quotes

1928 Leaving quotes by 1411 unique authors

I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations… — Patrick O'Brian
Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with… — Reif Larsen
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. — Audrey Niffenegger
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I… — Jodi Picoult
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood;… — Paulo Coelho
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at… — Ayn Rand
Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard. — Sarah Dessen
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on… — J M Coetzee
You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl. — Karen Marie Moning
I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. — Simone Elkeles
That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got… — Kate DiCamillo
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming… — Oscar Wilde
Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean.… — J D Salinger
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. — Jack Kerouac
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his… — James A. Michener
She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. — Gregory Maguire
I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know,… — Lilith Saintcrow
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship,… — Hermann Hesse
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I… — Louisa May Alcott
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green
The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. — Andre Breton
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent… — Maggie Stiefvater

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