Quotes about leave
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“That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Kelsier, Chapter 13
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006)

“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Understanding, Thinking, Fight

“You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Heart

“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Water, Heart

“And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Imagination

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Death, Dreams

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Happiness

“I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

Love, Fear, Personality

“He seemed only… annoyed. Annoyed, and sweaty, and hot.
"Yeah, well," he said, "the next time you decide to sneak out of our magically warded apartment through a door that shouldn't really exist, leave a note.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Time

“Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

Sex, Girl

“Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare.
"The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Winter

“A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Variant: I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
Source: The Song of Achilles

“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

People, World, Hope, Thinking

“You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Girl in Blue

Source: The Girl in Blue (1970)

Guy

“Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a smallthat smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Sadness, Light

“I don't know myself, what to do, where to go… I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort… it's what the world offers… please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.”

William H. Gass book Omensetter's Luck

Source: Omensetter's Luck

Lie, Books, World, Dreams

“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

Feeling, Soul

“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”

Susanna Tamaro (1957) Italian writer

Source: Follow Your Heart

Way, Tear, Heart

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: Love Bites

Life, Home, Suffering, Teachers

“I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Boy, Princess

“I will be the one to leave you.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”

John Hersey book Hiroshima

Source: Hiroshima

Life, Money

“I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Death, Question, Thinking, Suicide

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, Time, Cry

“To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Books

“You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Life, Time

“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once blown for ever dies.”

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Life, Flowers

“thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

World, Dependency

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Life

“I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Source: Gentlemen and Players

Autumn, Rage, Time

“I don’t give a damn if they throw me down into the deepest, slimiest pit for eternity. I belong here and no one is going to make me leave. No one! (Selena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Change, Horse

“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life

“It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.”

Lois Lowry Son

Source: Son

Hate, Search, Thinking

“When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Chasing Fire

People, Way

“I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

“Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Source: The Essays: A Selection

Soul

“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Life, Hate

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Love, Dreams, Forgetting

“Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me, and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Horse, Night

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

World, Spring, Flowers, Thinking

“We couldn't understand because we were too far… and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign… and no memories.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Age, Travel, Understanding, Memory

“Death always leaves one singer to mourn.”

Katherine Anne Porter book Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Source: Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Death

“It has oblique leaves”

Jenny Offill (1968) American writer

Dept. of Speculation

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Men, Tree, Training

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Night

“But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, World, Nature, Housing

“The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.”

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

Heart

“That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.”

Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire

Source: Soul of the Fire

Lying, Sister, Time

“I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting."

My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

Guy

“Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world…”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

World

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)
Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Books

“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

Leon Uris (1924–2003) American novelist

Life, War

“FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs.”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 3
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

Men, Youth, Sadness, Thinking

“We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.”

Kathy Reichs book Seizure

Source: Seizure

Chance, Dance, Night

“As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You

Way, Drawing

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. 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 (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)

Children, Thinking, Future, Childhood

“the beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left, they were so
beautiful.

they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Beauty, Understanding, Silence

“Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

Children, World, Communication, Learning

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more…”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Love, Life, People, Cry

“Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Home, Heart

“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”

John O'Hara (1905–1970) American journalist

People

“Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Friendship, People

“The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Nature

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Courage, Past, Dead

“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

Parting

“You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Girl

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Travel

“Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

God, Way

“The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Money

“You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Happiness, Tree, Sun

“If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

“That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

People, World, Tree

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets… when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Hope, Girl

“It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some "safe" place where it doesn't have to put up with me and my night terrors.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Feeling, Soul, Night

“Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick)
Oh the horror. Guess I’ll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Love

“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”

Jonathan Franzen (1959) novelist

Imagination

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Way

“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Time, Sad

“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”

Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian

Source: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

Housing

“You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”

Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) English short story writer and novelist

Source: A Prisoner in Fairyland

Memory

“… it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.”

Stef Penney book The Tenderness of Wolves

Source: The Tenderness of Wolves

“And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.”

Dylan Thomas Rebecca's Daughters

Source: Rebecca's Daughters

“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Memory

“Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

Men, Fools

“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”

Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary

“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ch 43
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Hate, World, Fight

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Love, Courage, Hurt

“I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.”

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

Life

“I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Chance

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