Leaving Me Quotes - Page 14

• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  E. M. Forster

  Trying, Cold, Daily Life

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 251, to Florence Barger, December 23, 1924.

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• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Nature

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• Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
  may your eyelids never flutter into the empty
  distance.
  Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

  Pablo Neruda

  Famous Love, Beach, Distance

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

  J. B. Priestley

  Death, Prayer, People

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• People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Self, People

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Angel, Faces, Peril

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.85, Sounds True

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• One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

  Lawrence Block

  Morning, Writing, Giving

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• We built a foundation called the 3HO Foundation: a Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization of people. The first song I sang was, "We are the people, the people of love, let us people love today."All of those who have left, all who are with me, who shall be with me, or who shall leave me, all play a very important role in the development of 3HO-a lifestyle of the Age of Aquarius where humans shall be first and foremost purely human, and will do everything graciously.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Song, Aquarius, Play

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• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  Patsy Cline

  Bullying, Angel, Finals

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• It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself

  Bobby Darin

  Space, Anxiety, Flying

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• I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

  Elton John

  Complaining, Boring, Mines

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• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Expression, Fundamentals, Dimensions

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• Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

  Andrew Solomon

  Pride, Giving, Feel Good

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• I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

  Emily Dickinson

  Trying, Littles, Force

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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• Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

  William James Mayo

  Teacher, Science, Experience

  William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

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• Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

  Bootsy Collins

  Running, Pain, Rejection

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• Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Eye, Dancing, Rejection

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• Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

  Janis Ian

  More Time

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• People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

  Bianca Jagger

  Country, Loss, People

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• I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

  Jason Newsted

  Leaving, Never Regret, Metallica

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• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  Hal Sparks

  Artist, Dust, People

  ChicagoPride.com interview, chicago.gopride.com. May 19, 2010.

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.

  Eddie Long

  Leaving, Don't Leave Me, Ifs

  "Rick's List" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Love, Heart, Broken

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• In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fighting, Who I Am, Leave Me Alone

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