Leaving Quotes

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. (Lin Yutang)
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. View quote
Emily Brontë
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark begind. View quote
Brandon Lee
Art is running away without ever leaving home. View quote
Twyla Tharp
The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. View quote
Mick Jagger
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. (Carl Sandburg)
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. View quote
Fiona Apple
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. View quote
Camille Paglia
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. View quote
Charles Lamb
Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. View quote
Phil Ochs
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the first duty of the educator. View quote
Maria Montessori
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. View quote
Robert Jordan
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. (Cyril Connolly)
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal. View quote
Octavia Butler
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven. View quote
Henry Fielding
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut