Committed Quote by Hubert Selby, Jr

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

— Anita Shreve

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

— Maurissa Tancharoen

It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for us that…

— John Carlos

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

— Neil Gaiman

Loyalty & respect goes both ways. If they don't return it, they don't deserve it.

— Blondie

Only Someone Who Held On To The Very End Can Say That They Let Someone Go...

— Pacifiersucker

Those who left, left us a lesson.

— Anonymous

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,

— Richard Russo

They were making their way with the resigned expression of those who are condemned to hope forever.

— Charles Baudelaire

Watching people leave is hard, but it's harder remembering that time when they promised they wouldn't.

— Anonymous

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

— Gustave Flaubert

People always leave.. but sometimes.. they come back.

— Anonymous