Leaving Quotes
Raymond Carver
They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.
1991 Kate DiCamillo
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.
2198 Turcois Ominek
I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.
1952 Michael Bassey Johnson
The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.
1697 Ram Mohan
Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.
3406 Ram Mohan
Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.
3425 Kellie Elmore
...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.
2300 F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
2563 Daniel Willey
A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.
1353 Aniekee Tochukwu
Let's create a new memory,where our futures will fall back for strength
4109 Kashmir Foley
sometimes I wish I would just disappear into thin air, leave the pain and the misery of this cold hearted world,I wonder who would miss me if anyone would even show a little sympathy to my family, probably no one I was just a little no one anyways.
3143 Jenny Downham
I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.
2870 Rachel Ward
You get use to someone - start to like them, even - and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
2954 Carrie Ryan
I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.
1104 Derek Landy
It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -
2207 Pascal Mercier
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
1465 John Green
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
1760 Anita Shreve
To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
2618 Charlotte Eriksson
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
3504 Julie Kagawa
Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.
2751 John Green
It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
1532 Lili St. Crow
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.
1138 A.R. Ammons
Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
3468 Betty Smith
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
2355 Judith Minty
I give you this to take with you:
Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can
begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.
4117 Charlotte Eriksson
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.
4854 Tim McGraw
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
4607 Martha N. Beck
...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
4167 Shauna Niequist
There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.
4681 Khalid Masood
Time is the only way to run away without leaving home.
3212 Sol Luckman
Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
1653 Roman Payne
A glorious death would be in my
final breath to take before I die, to hear
one final time on my belovèd's mouth
the sound of her eternal sigh.
1318 Scott Hastie
Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,
If only for moments…
And then be gone,
With gladness in your heart,
Before the creeping shadows
Claim too much your sadness at leaving.
3727 Amit Kalantri
Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.
4184 Amit Kalantri
Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.
1024 Olaotan Fawehinmi
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.
3734 Hilary McKay
She had to go," said Rose.
"It was because of her angel," said Indigo.
"And because of Granddad," added Caddy.
"And because of her nose stud."
"And because her name isn't on the color chart."
"She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why.
4808 Daniel Handler
This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.
3406 Lauren Oliver
Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.
1732 Charlotte Eriksson
He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
1683 John Phillp Santos
Crossing the ocean even on the Queen Elizabeth 2, you know in your bones, with every mile gained, that you have left your familiar world behind. You feel the full measure of the earth and heavens.
4020 Mike Shinoda
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
2330 Jodi Picoult
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
2994 Ally Carter
But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.
4241 Paulo Coelho
...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
4485 Karen Kingsbury
Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.
3281 Karen Kingsbury
Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last.
Karen kingsbury # Leaving
1965 Charlotte Eriksson
I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte
1431 Robyn Schneider
And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
4156 Emma Brynstein
This is how I disappear in pieces.
This is how I leave without moving from my place.
This is how I dance away.
This is how I'm gone before you wake.
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