Leaving Quotes

If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach last week. Not once had she led him to believe that she liked him improperly. And yet, last night, he had appeared as if she had invited him. She had given herself so willingly, so lasciviously, that he must have thought she had desired him all along. Perhaps she had, or perhaps she had not realised how pleasurable intimacy could be.

~ Mahita Vas

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

~ Dorothy Allison

Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boywho asked where I live.His unwashed hair or the way his eyes were just eyes…the soul is a tiring thing. You can have it.I don’t know what you mean’s what I told him.It’s more simple than that. I’m just passing through.

~ Alex Dimitrov

How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, ‘when will the train leave, when will it leave?’ This world is not worth getting impatient restless about.

~ Dada Bhagwan

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own

~ Salman Rushdie

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

~ Frida Kahlo

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

~ Julie Kagawa

Each drop hits the pavement;A soft, incoherent shatter below.Here I stand in torturous observanceOf this strange disappearing act.

~ Katie Douglas

Just before the men closed the tail gate on the float, she strained her head to see me and nodded her head so hard her blonde mane flew around her face—she looked like she was standing in a cloud of icing sugar. She uttered such a quiet neigh, it seemed only I heard it. She stared at me, and closed her eyes. Then she was gone.

~ Kelly Batten

Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.It is a big miracle to be loved because of your inadequacies, not despite them. And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

If you think deep inside yourself that you can not live except in the presence of someone that is not true, but this feeling remains true and this is more important than anything else .

~ Mahmoud Hamdy

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 shadowsClaim too much your sadness at leaving.

~ Scott Hastie

I am leaving. Where? Not where but whom. Whom? You.

~ Vikrmn

No. No!” he says.“I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I don’t know.“You can’t go. Ana, I love you!”“I love you, too, Christian, it’s just—”“No . . . no!” he says in desperation and puts both hands on his head. “Christian .

~ E.l. James

She’s leaving me!”“Leaving? She’s been waiting for you to get your shit together.”I step into him. “That Hunter bastard is offering her the world! What do I got to give? Nothing. I’ve got nothing.”Isaiah slams his finger into my biceps. “She looks at you like you’re the whole universe! I’d kill to have a sliver with Beth of what you have with Echo. Wake the f*ck up!”I pound my hand to my chest, mimicking the pain slicing it. “Echo’s leaving me.”“No, man. You’re the one leaving her,” he seethes. “Get it together or she will walk.

~ Katie Mcgarry

They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.

~ Jennifer Niven

Occasionally we must disconnect to reconnect later on.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly as my embrace of my nothingness. Most days don’t really matter, because there is only this day, and right now I feel like fear is all I am. I don’t want you to leave. Just let me pretend you won’t.'He wrapped his arms around me and we slept. For that night, we would last forever.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

I’ve just been transferred to Kanglung,” I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wipes his runny nose on his sleeve and looks up. “Oh, miss,” he says sadly. “Please don’t go.”“Just a minute,” I say, and go into the bathroom. I latch the door and turn on the tap full force. When the water is running noisily, I lean my hot forehead against the damp, flaking concrete, and cry.

~ Jamie Zeppa

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

~ Joan Didion

If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan

~ Munia Khan

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

~ Turcois Ominek

Yesterday, today, tomorrow and maybe forever, living and leaving without you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

~ Beryl Markham

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

~ Robyn Schneider

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

~ Gregory Galloway

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.

~ Sol Luckman

The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.

~ Will Advise

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

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

~ Daniel Willey

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.

~ Emma Brynstein

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Don’t confuse the darkness that’s leaving with the light that’s coming in.

~ A.d. Posey