Left Behind Quotes

426 Left Behind quotes by 351 unique authors

Itâ€™s the leftover humans. The survivors. Theyâ€™re the ones I canâ€™t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek… — Markus Zusak
People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can… — Jeanette Winterson
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want… — Charles Bukowski
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when… — Jodi Picoult
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go… — Sharon Salzberg
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left… — C.S. Lewis
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,â€™ she said. â€˜Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The… — William Dalrymple
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues… — William Gibson
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. — Milan Kundera
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part. — Darynda Jones
Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was… — Lauren Oliver
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still… — Stanislaw Lem
Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds." I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each… — Veronica Roth
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. — Melina Marchetta
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone.… — Chuck Palahniuk
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill… — Sarah Dessen
Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems… — Rachel Cohn

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