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Quotes About Leaving

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
~ Eriq La Salle
They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.
~ Joe Jackson
At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Wer den Ort verlassen will, an dem er lebt, der ist nicht glücklich.
~ Milan Kundera
The only cheese I have in the apartment is a wedge of Brie in the refrigerator and before leaving I place the entire slice--it's a really big rat--along with a sun-dried tomato and a sprinkling of dill, delicately on the trap, setting it.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
She wants to tell him that life is about leaving, but that love is about memories.
~ Brian Freeman
The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
~ Camilla Gibb
Justice and revenge had been only part of my motivation for leaving Ashford. I'd run from my grief, from their pain, from being a shadow of another person, better loved for bitterly lost, and Ireland hadn't been nearly far enough.
~ Karen Marie Moning
What are you going to do now?' She faced him. What I've always wanted. I'm leaving this stupid kingdom to make my fortune, like a prince in one of the tales.' They're not true you know,' Cam said quietly. Meg stared at him for a long, grim moment. Yes they are,' she hissed.... Cam spoke in the sudden silence. 'Look, Meg. I'm not saying princes don't have adventures. But I'll bet a lot of them get eaten by the first dragon they com to.
~ Kate Coombs
Leaving?" she squeaked, bemused, as Max opened her wardrobe. "You're abducting me?" "Eloping. Eloping involves hurried packing. Abducting involves masked men and a burlap sack.
~ Kate Noble
Bond was glad to be on his way to the soft green flanks of Jamaica and to be leaving behind the great hard continent of Eldollarado.
~ Ian Fleming
I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
~ James Avery
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
~ Steven Wright
We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.
~ Chuka Umunna
The art of leaving and the art of loving are not the same.
~ Akif Kichloo
It's time to leave, though i've never really been arrived.
~ Siska Astriana
There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.
~ Olaotan Fawehinmi
The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.
~ Yrsa Daley-Ward
W]e must leave in order to achieve distance... a new perspective that is rational, understanding, AND loving and obedient, and in keeping with our faith... It is our duty to leave. Not fighting, but moving on.
~ Miriam Toews
I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
~ Mitch Albom
The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.
~ Modest Mouse
I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
~ Jason Newsted
I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.
~ Adrianne Lenker
Dick" Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, "Got to 'scram
~ Thomas Pynchon