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Quotes About Leaving

If you leave you leaving the best so you would have to settle for less.
~ Lil Wayne
We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.
~ Florence King
Alas," Brian said, "I really do have to leave posthaste.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
~ Andre Previn
La inspiración del cansancio dice menos lo que hay que hacer que lo que hay que dejar. Cansancio: el ángel que toca los dedos del único rey que sueña mientras los otros reyes siguen durmiendo sin soñar. Cansancio sano; él solo, el descanso. (p. 79)
~ Peter Handke
Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them.
~ Philip Pullman
Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.
~ David Levithan
He is, he thinks, almost ready to leave this place behind forever. Almost eager, in fact. Almost.
~ David Maine
That you should save me—be so good and kind—want to make me happy—why, it's beyond belief. No wonder I'm wretched at the thought of your leaving me. But I'll be wretched and bitter no more. I promise you.
~ Zane Grey
After leaving 'Vice Magazine' a couple of years ago and working only part time on boring administration stuff, I made antagonizing the press almost my full time job.
~ Gavin McInnes
We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
~ Louise Jameson
Gee, this has been fun," he said. "But I have to go watch paint dry now.
~ Jill Shalvis
eu, prestes a deixar o mundo, sentia um prazer satânico em mofar dele, em persuadir-me que não deixava nada.
~ Joaquim Machado de Assis
Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.
~ Jodi Picoult
With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.
~ Jodi Picoult
I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
~ Jodi Picoult
my love was always woven with leaving
~ W.S. Merwin
I was suddenly alarmed about leaving this attractive forty-five-year-old woman alone with him, dead though she was.
~ Philip Roth
Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and to see it from a distance.
~ Rachel Cohn
My, my, will you look at the time?" Bailey muttered, staring down at her watch. It was half-past frustration and thirty minutes to despair. The only way she could easily extricate herself from this mess was to leave—now.
~ Debbie Macomber
I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.
~ Unknown
Last night I dreamed that Roger was leaving. I've been dreaming about his going for a week, ever since Da suggested it. Suggested—ha. Like Moses brought down
~ Diana Gabaldon
The only job I'd consider leaving ESPN for would be to call NFL games.
~ Jesse Palmer
The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
~ Unknown