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Quotes About Leaving

I like it when people actually come, but I love it when they go.
~ Virginia Woolf
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
~ Larry Page
He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he'd read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn't have to. He could turn about this moment and ride away. Yet that would mean leaving her forever.
~ Celeste Bradley
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
~ Charles Dickens
Kindness is the most tender and effective form of leaving a memory inside people's hearts.
~ Dodinsky
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
~ Groucho Marx
Hello, I must be going.
~ Groucho Marx
Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.
~ Groucho Marx
We will leave a name.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I left acting in the summer of 1988 because I was unhappy with a lot of the irresponsibility that was going on in the entertainment industry.
~ Ben Harney
Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.
~ Howard Jacobson
Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.
~ Scott Kelly
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
~ Peter Bart
I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I am left.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
~ Nick Flynn
After the leave-taking, there is the leaving. And once you have left, you discover the ten thousand things that you still carry - memories of touch, scent and sight.
~ Omair Ahmad
We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
~ Orson Scott Card
I cried because I knew for certain that I was leaving home, and abruptly, I did not know if it was such a good idea- I realized that I, like my parents, had never believed I'd actually go.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
The children nodded in agreement, and rose from the table. Leaving their dirty breakfast dishes behind, which is not a good thing to do in general but perfectly acceptable in the face of an emergency.
~ Lemony Snicket
I have stood in a department store, and seen something written on a price tag that told me I had to leave at once, but in different clothing.
~ Lemony Snicket
He's sort of a homeless horse," I said. "I'm leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I won't be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I don't want that horse in my apartment." "Who would put a horse in an apartment? That's dumb." "Where's the horse staying now?" "My apartment." "I can always count on you to brighten my day," Ranger said. And he disconnected.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.
~ Jenifer Lewis
Either help me, or go with me right now to explain to my sister and mother that I will be leaving again first thing in the morning. She frowned at him. That sounds vaguely like a threat. It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
~ P. C. Cast
It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.
~ Pablo Neruda