Quotes about leave
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“He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Time, Help

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory —
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Music, When Soft Voices Die http://www.readprint.com/work-1367/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems

Love, Art, Music, Sense

“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Sadness, Time, Night

“I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Don't leave me."
"Leave you? I'm going to marry you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out.
First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
Source: A Walk to Remember

Smile, Cry

“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Life, Death, Time

“We?" I asked.
Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“Welcome to Morganville. You'll never want to leave. And even if you do… well, you can't. Sorry about that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving.

- Macey”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Time, Madness

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

Children, People

“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”

Howard Pyle book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Source: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Tree, Time, Season

“Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Learning, Heart, Dead, Sad

“I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t got it? Flaunt it. ’Cause what are we even doing here if we’re not flaunting it?”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Loss

“I surrendered my beliefs
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons”

Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

Life, Tree, Season

“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Home

“Gods, woman," William said. "Your voice is like death. Can you shut it until I leave the room? Please. Seriously, you're like the one woman in the world Ito resist." -Page 271”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Pleasure

Death, God, World

“I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sadness

“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

Hunger, Childhood

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Music, Painting, Forgetting

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

People, Memory

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Future, Childhood

“… Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Chicago: City on the Make

Love, Heart

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, "There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh my Me! I left fuckin' pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle. But if I leave pot everywhere, that's gonna give people the impression they're supposed to … use it. Now I have to create Republicans."”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

" … and God wept", I believe is the next part of that story.
Chicago '91 (1991)

God, People, Law, Way

“After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Time

“Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Waiting

“If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Hunger, Hate, Game

“‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Arousal leaves us mind-blind.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Kiss

“You know when people say fine, it generally means ‘leave me the hell alone because I don’t want to talk about what’s really bothering me.' (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

People, Hell

“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave”

James Salter (1925–2015) American novelist and short-story writer

Source: Dusk and Other Stories

Love, Women, Men

“I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too."

What?"

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: I'm In No Mood For Love

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Pain, Time

“Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

As quoted in Sex from Plato to Paglia : A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2006) by Alan Soble, Volume 2, p. 378, ISBN 9780313334252

Dogs, Sex

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

World, Home

“I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Life

“It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

Learning

“I can’t for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That’s how I am about ignoring delicious food.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

Life, Food, Idea

“I'll never leave you.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

When Day Breaks

“If I ever leave this place-
I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Hate, Forgetting

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”

Anthony Capella (1962) British writer

Source: The Various Flavours Of Coffee

Love, Pleasure, Coffee

“Zarek! I won’t leave you here to die. (Astrid)
It’s okay, princess. I don’t mind dying for you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Princess

“Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Promise Me

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

Strong, Hurt

“I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find…”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Angels, Selfishness

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Personality

“The wolf howled under the leaves
And spit out the prettiest feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Wolf

“Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide alone
But no one is alone”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

Source: Into the Woods

People

“But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Feeling

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

Source: In November

Love, Tree, Time

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

People, Help, Heart

“Treasures:
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Children

“Success always leaves footprints.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Success

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Dreams, Bird

“The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.”

Rebecca Solnit book Men Explain Things To Me

Source: Men Explain Things to Me

Silence

“Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

God, Time

“But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Light, Heart

“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”

Neal Shusterman book The Dark Side of Nowhere

Source: The Dark Side of Nowhere

Personality

“It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.”

Frederick Buechner book Godric

Source: Godric (1980)

“I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Dead

“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, "What's wrong?" Nothing. "Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile." Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Relentless (1992)

People, Smile

“Rache! Glad you're… Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, God, Sex, Night

“What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. -- Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.”

Meg Cabot book Boy Meets Girl

Source: Boy Meets Girl

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Bee, Flying

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

André Breton book Anthology of Black Humor

Source: Anthology of Black Humor

Life, Freedom

“Thank you leaf blowers, for making me look like the world's lamest Ghostbuster. I ain't afraid of no leaves.”

Jimmy Fallon (1974) American TV Personality

Source: Thank You Notes

World

“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Life

“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”

Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

Parting

“Daimons, vampires, ghouls, whatever you want to call them. They suck your blood and your soul and leave you with nothing. Kind of like lawyers. (Selena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Soul

“What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: Stickeen

Singing

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Parting

“You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Night

“Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Hate

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 27
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

Personality

“Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?'
'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

People, Past, Future

“Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

Death, Thinking

“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea

Life

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love, Sadness, Thinking

“I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out."
"So what happened?"
"I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Life

“I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck”

Charles Simic (1938) American poet

Bad luck, People, Sadness, Color

“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.”

Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist

People

“If we can forgive what's been done to us… If we can forgive what we've done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 21

World, Forgiveness

“Things always seem to glide away.
They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Getting the Girl

“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Life

“Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

“… but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Question

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I’d really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Love, Hell, Fraud, Personality

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Love, Thinking

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Love, Lovers

“Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Time, Past

“Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.”

Karen Abbott (1973) American writer

Source: Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

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