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.

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.

Turcois Ominek

I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at
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.

Ram Mohan

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

Ram Mohan

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. F.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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.

Aniekee Tochukwu

Let's create a new memory,where our futures will fall back for strength

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

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.

Rachel Ward

You get use to someone - start to like them, even - and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

George Bernard Shaw

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.. George Bernard Shaw
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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.

Derek Landy

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

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.

John Green

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

Anita Shreve

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

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.

Julie Kagawa

Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

John Green

It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Thomas Wolfe

You can't go home again

Lili St. Crow

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

A.R. Ammons

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

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?

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.

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.

Tim McGraw

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

Hassan Choughari

Sometimes correct decisions are not good decisions

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.

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.

Khalid Masood

Time is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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.

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.

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.

Amit Kalantri

Goals doesn't leave you like men, goals wait, they wait for their achievers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mike Shinoda

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Jodi Picoult

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Ally Carter

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

Paulo Coelho

...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

Karen Kingsbury

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

Karen Kingsbury

Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last.
Karen kingsbury # Leaving

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

Robyn Schneider

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

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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