“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, a potting shed, a wall where peaches ripen, than to burn like meteor and leave no dust.”

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”

“Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.”

“Everything that changes, where it changes, leaves behind it an abyss.”

“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”

“It is better to leave when When someone takes advantage of your straightforwardness. You should not go where your innocence is made fun of. It is better not to go there, where you are humiliated again and again, the person with whom all this happens, breaks up.”

“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”

“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”

“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”