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Quotes About Leaving

In leaving Balbec, I had imagined that I was leaving Gomorrah, plucking Albertine from it; in reality, alas, Gomorrah was dispersed to all the ends of the earth. And partly out of jealousy, partly out of ignorance of such joys (a case which is rare indeed), I had arranged unawares this game of hide and seek in which Albertine was always to escape me.
~ Marcel Proust
He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.
~ Catherine Watson
Leaving takes strength, self-respect, self-love and knowing your worth. Without the above you'll continue to put up with their disrespect.
~ Unknown
I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
~ Groucho Marx
Let me get you all some punch, " I said."You're leaving us?" said Isabel, sounding panicky."I'll be right back, " I promised. "If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.
~ Unknown
My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.
~ Denis Leary
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. -Ephesians 5:31
~ Bible
She shrugged. "I was going to leave anyway. I told you." "But not like this. You could have left under far more favorable circumstances." She grinned, unable to disagree. "Maybe." Her grin slowly faded, her eyes searching my face. "But I never could have left for as important a reason. We can't always wait for the perfect timing.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Autumn is leaving you'd like to hide in an opium poppy
~ Matsuo Bash?
Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.
~ Matt Haig
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact
~ Maurice Blanchot
Okay, boys, you've done worn me out, I'm gonna get going," I said. "Yeah, okay, cool," Paul said, "We're having a party here on Wednesday, why don't you come back? And give me your number, too, for sure." No one had ever asked me for my number before. I gave it to him and every guy in the room and then I left, excited and liberated
~ Megan Hart
Havia duas maneiras de partir: uma era ir embora, outra era enlouquecer.
~ Mia Couto
It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.
~ Unknown
I'm glad you're the one I get to leave the parties with.
~ Michael Hastings
When I got to San Francisco that afternoon, it was one of those days that arrives at the end of summer just as the last tourists are leaving complaining about the cold and fog.
~ Unknown
Tom Fox's announcement came as a shock, even to congregants who complained about him. The most grief-stricken and rattled were those members who had come to the AUUCC during his reign and stayed because of him. Some of them loved Tom as some of us loved Sparlo, ardently and unconditionally. "It's good news hiding bad," muttered Charlotte as we shuffled toward the exit. "He's leaving, but we still have another whole year of him.
~ Michelle Huneven
It's almost always sadder to stay than to depart
~ Unknown
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
My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, "Where's the bathroom?" and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.
~ Mindy Kaling
A well-trained soul will not fear leaving this world. For the death of the body is the initiation of the soul into the land of immortality.
~ Unknown
First of all, love will approach, caress and then embrace you. Afterwards, it will start pulling itself out slowly. Leaving you with its opposite feelings; which is hate.
~ Unknown