Leave This World Quotes

#1. Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.

Carrie Newcomer

#2. A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference.

Molly Friedenfeld

#3. By walking on a snowy forest, you can really forget about this world and every time you forget about this world you leave this world and every time you leave this world you gain a very special wisdom that does not exist in this world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I'm thinking it would be wonderful if I could follow you into that world where you're going." "And leave this world behind?" "That's right," she said. "It's a boring old world anyway. I'm sure it'd be much more fun living in your consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

Isabel Wilkerson

#7. I honestly believe that my best work is in front, not behind me. I am driven by a deep passion and need to make a difference and leave this world a little better than when I arrived. That's what keeps me going.

Rick Hansen

#8. I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

James Monroe

#9. Lo," I whisper, my fingers making circles on his black shirt. "I just want you to know that if you leave this world, I won't be in it for much longer." He's a piece of me. You cut it off, and it's like going through life with no lungs.

Krista Ritchie

#10. I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,

Fernando Botero

#11. It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better in spite of my departure, not because of it.

Kay Whitley

#12. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

Anonymous

#13. 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

#14. If she wasn't careful, she might end up convinced that life was worth living, and that would cause her pointless pain, since she would soon have to leave this world anyway.

Paulo Coelho

#15. One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

Max Lucado

#16. When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?

Randy Alcorn

#17. I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.

Kim Wright

#18. My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be satisfied that at least I tried. I know I can make a difference, even if it might only be a small one.

Maisie Shiell

#19. What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Ken Robinson

#20. Don't leave this world without giving it your all.

Tupac Shakur

#21. At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well ... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

Carlos Slim

#23. We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

Tim McIlrath

#24. When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here."

And he did.

Brian Jay Jones

#25. The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Tomas Borge

#26. Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it ...

Wilferd Peterson

#27. You are a memory
too strong to leave this world ...

William Stafford

#28. Promise yourself that you will not leave this world before accomplishing what is important to you and what matters for the world.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder - from before my shelves of books! ...

Anatole France

#30. If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Michael Jackson

#31. When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Miguel De Cervantes

#32. I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

Alex Campbell

#33. You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

Rumi

#34. We have someone with us who is dying
someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us?

Tony DiTerlizzi

#35. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. Your people are now my people. Who you love, I'll love. Who you serve, I'll serve. When you hurt, I hurt. When you laugh, I laugh. All of my days I am bound to you and when you leave this world, I can only hope to leave it with you.

Quinn Loftis

#36. But make no mistake - if you leave this world, I will not be long behind, because I cannot live without you.

Ruby Dixon

#37. To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

Gavin DeGraw

#38. I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

Harry Chapin

#39. Leaves leave this world in beautiful fall colors and songs.

Debasish Mridha

#40. If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send ... and you must live.

Park Gye-Ok

#41. And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. [last words]

Nicolas Chamfort

#42. I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

Nick Cave

#43. Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Terrell Owens

#44. Death is the beginning of a new life, not the end of the life.
You may leave this world but not our heart, you will live there for ever.

Debasish Mridha

#45. I do so hate to leave this world.

Bertrand Russell

#46. I wanna leave this world better than I found it. I have the ability to draw people to my comedy shows so I wanna use that blessing not to make money but to make a difference.

Carlos Wallace

#47. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Baden Powell

#48. Life begins with you. You entered this world alone and you will leave this world alone. The middle is just a bonus, so embrace love but remember all things are temporary.

Theresa Lewis

#49. We all have to leave this world and we don't know when, so make sure you try and live life ... now and then!

Timothy Pina

#50. There is no such thing as death. Life existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we leave this world. Same with love, it existed before and will go on forever.

Paulo Coelho

#51. It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

Randy Travis

#52. The kind of person who wants to participate in the healing of the world is very different from the kind of person who wants to leave this world behind so she can go to a better one.

Brian D. McLaren

#53. Leave this world... a better place than how you found it.

Sarah J. Maas

#54. It's from a Celtic group. Flogging Molly," was all he said. Tom went onto iTunes and found the song easily enough: "If I Ever Leave This World Alive.

S.E. Jakes

#55. I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

Yusuf Hamied

#56. Most people leave this world without leaving any mark on, it isn't because they were lazy, but because they were working hard with their focus dispensed in many things.

Divine K. Kpe

#57. Look to what you have around you and be grateful, instead of searching for more. All you take with you when you leave this world is love, friendship, and good deeds.

Sylvia Browne

#58. The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#59. We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.

Charlaine Harris

#60. You came to this world with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing. There is nothing to gain or lose. You can only touch everyone and everything with your love.

Debasish Mridha

#61. To enter a world of shadows is to leave this world for another.

Anthony Doerr

#62. I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

#63. When I got tired, Logan would sing me to sleep, sometimes a painfully appropriate song like Flogging Molly's "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" or Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars." Sometimes he'd pick a lilting Irish lullaby, or even a song he'd written himself.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#64. O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind...

Gregory Maguire

#65. Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign

Jose De Alencar

#66. Issa knelt down in front of her, taking her hands in his. Until the end of time, I will love you. You are the moon in my endless night. I have never abandoned this world, even when I desperately wanted to, and I will never leave you, either.

Lisa Kessler

#67. To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.

Frederic S. Durbin

#68. This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.

Chris Matakas

#69. I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.

Tom Morello

#70. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

John Owen

#71. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot

#72. There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

Ibn Hazm

#73. Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life
and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Dean Koontz

#74. The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

Helen Humphreys

#75. The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Julia Cameron

#76. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

David Sarnoff

#77. Our life is our prayer. It is our gift to the universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. The best thing we can do for ourselves and everyone around us is to find our joy and share it!

Anita Moorjani

#78. Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

John Pearson

#79. We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

William Friedkin

#80. Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don't cry myself to sleep with eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world!

Anne Frank

#81. An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Pope Francis

#82. There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps.

Gloria Naylor

#83. This is how we leave the world,
with the heart weeping,
and the hope that distance
brings the solving wonder
of one last clear view
before that long sleep
about the weather's changes

Mark Haddon

#84. I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.

Mitchel Musso

#85. When you're in the military, especially if you serve, you leave in this heightened world of having adrenaline course through you, all the time. You get addicted to that because adrenaline is essentially a drug.

Jill Flint

#86. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Anthony Bourdain

#87. That was how she said goodbye to the world. To the people she loved. She was going to leave this earth the same way her mother had. With all the grace of the old world. The old, dying world.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#88. The light of the world had more or less taken leave of this man, for he was almost blind.
(from 'The Fish can Sing')

Halldor Laxness

#89. There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.

William Goldman

#90. As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#91. A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?

Cornelia Funke

#92. Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.

Rupi Kaur

#93. The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

Sarah Shahi

#94. I promised to never leave you in this world alone, no matter how happy you are without me i shall keep my promise ever and will be there for you when all leave you. That's my love for you.

Debolina

#95. I rely on one thing in this world:
my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with the
strongest hand possible.

Liv Morris

#96. I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

Alexandra Stoddard

#97. Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

Kristin Cashore

#98. I will leave with the hope that the expansion of one person - the magnification of one life - is indeed an act of worth in this world. Even if that life, just this one time, happens to be nobody's but my own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#99. Our kind, we don't leave many traces behind in this world.

Zoraida Cordova

#100. If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in.
There are some truths in this world that one cannot see unless one unbends one's posture.

Yukio Mishima