Left Behind Quotes - Page 9

• It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

  Seamus Heaney

  Desolation, Operations, Difficult

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.422, Macmillan

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• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

  J. D. Salinger

  Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

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• I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

  Stephen Levine

  Love You, Healing, Eye

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.35, Harmony

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• It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Jigsaw Puzzles, Color

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2007.

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• the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

  Charles Bukowski

  Hands, Understanding, Novelists

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• over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Offering, Pages

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• It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Would Be, Samwise Gamgee, Frodo

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

  C. S. Lewis

  Easter, Stars, Clothes

  Clive Staples Lewis, “Here The Whole World”

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• Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

  William Dalrymple

  Gone, Misery, Delhi

  William Dalrymple (2003). “City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi”, p.60, Penguin

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• Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

  Conor McGregor

  Ufc, Boxing, Kind

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There are places that are thriving in America that don't need very much help, and then there are places where people feel so discouraged and so left behind, like nobody cares about them. And I want to try to help there.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, People, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology, rapid social change that were reflected in Brexit, that's been reflected in some of the debates in Germany and France and other places, that those exist in the United States as well. My view is that over the long term, over the next 10, 15, 20 years, if we are able to address the legitimate economic concerns of those who feel left behind by globalization, then many of these tensions will be reduced. And we will see a world that is less divided.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Important, Addresses

  Source: time.com

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• If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.

  Tony Blair

  People, Support, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue logging the forests, she's going to continue burning charcoal, she is going to continue practicing agricultural activities that destroy the environment, and sooner or later Africa's problem will become a global problem.

  Wangari Maathai

  Atmosphere, Logging, Forests

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. So many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Space, Stories, Rooms

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.13, Penguin

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• When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that, and there I think we need growth and skills - but there are these other people who have been left behind. When I say out loud, "Fifty percent of inner-city schoolkids do not graduate from high school," that is a national catastrophe. We should be ringing the alarm bells. It's not fair.

  Jamie Dimon

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty.

  Nicholas Stern

  Dirty, Years, Worry

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• We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is bound to get involved. Otherwise it will be left behind in the development of advanced technology. Germany understands that very well. The US understands it too, and they fully expect that Germany and other countries that they want on board will go along with the program.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Technology, Space

  Source: www.madre.org

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• The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Talking, World, Gaps

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• I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

  Robert Smith

  World, Strange, Drifting

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Evil, Separation

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360

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• Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

  Brigid Lowry

  Towns, Twenties, Miles

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