Leaving Behind Quotes

65 Leaving Behind quotes by 52 unique authors

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices… — Jerry Saltz
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
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
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
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind… — N.D. Wilson
To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion… — Brandon Sanderson
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was… — Curtis Sittenfeld
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.… — Haruki Murakami
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
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the… — Nicholas Sparks
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as… — Lewis Thomas
Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother,… — Hans Christian Andersen
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go,… — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind. — Lauren Oliver
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the… — Tim O'Brien
What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams… — Tim O'Brien
I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind. — Nelson Mandela
The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and… — Philip Pullman
Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he… — Lauren Oliver
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order,… — Jorge Luis Borges
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. — Marguerite Yourcenar
He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But… — Jan Myrdal
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer… — Andrew Carnegie

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