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Quotes About Leaving

Ecstasy is almost never discussed anymore, but leaving the earth is one way of attaining it. To exchange ecstasy for death is often the bargain.
~ Caterina Fake
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
~ Lord Byron
I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile.
~ Mary Lou Jepsen
I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary that left me in writerly observational mode.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. – Genesis 2:24
~ Robert J. Morgan
Take a farewell look at the waves and sky. Take a farewell sniff of the salty sea. A little bit sad about the place you are leaving, a little bit glad about the place you are going.
~ Robert McCloskey
You who were bewildered by a meaning, whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed—Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving. Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
~ Roger Housden
I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.
~ Darrell Royal
I have a lifelong habit for dealing with dejection: I leave town. I first ran away from home at three. Mother helped pack my bag.
~ Jinx Schwartz
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
~ Robert Neelly Bellah
That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.
~ Mike Schmidt
As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.
~ Madeleine Stowe
Harvard is famous for being an 'absorbing state' for faculty with almost no one leaving it for another institution, which is why the decision of granting tenure is a life long commitment.
~ Gita Gopinath
I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.
~ Will Ferrell
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
~ Robert Neelly Bellah
leaving just before midnight
~ Robert White
I got to be going anyway," said Michaels. "Good
~ Robin Cook
You leave so much behind to do this," I said awkward, thinking of his tools, his half-finished puppets, even the plants growing inside by the window. Despite myself, I felt responsabile for it. Perhaps it was because I was glad that I was not going on alone. He glanced over me and shrugged. "I take myself with me. That's all I truly need, or own.
~ Robin Hobb
Let me see you going but never coming back.
~ Lisa See
Bethan, gleeful, left
~ Lois Lowry
I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. I never thought of being married, as you all did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
~ Louisa May Alcott
He was apparently forced out.
~ Ron Chernow
I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.
~ Eric Halvorsen
I know that the world is a salon which we ought to leave politely and honestly; that is, after saluting and paying our gambling debts.
~ Alexandre Dumas