“She left one too many a boy behind
He committed suicide”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Gypsy Lou (recorded 1963)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“She left one too many a boy behind
He committed suicide”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Gypsy Lou (recorded 1963)
Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
"Keep Gomorrah Weird", Texas Monthly (December 2004) http://www.texasmonthly.com/2004-12-01/friedman.php
“To be left behind… or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.”
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 16
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: 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 to
get away
from
them.
"John Fetterman for U.S. Senate," September 14, 2015
“The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
Written after a thief robbed his hut, as translated in The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry (1993) by Stephen Mitchell, p. 162
“There is never no hope left. Remember.”
Larry Niven book The Ringworld Engineers
Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 280