Leaving The World Behind Quotes

#1. Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#2. The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The moon is a loyal companion.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself; when they have cut this, at last, wise people leave the world free from cares, leaving all affection behind.

Anonymous

#5. I fear that the evil which man brings into this world will never be squelched, leaving behind a terrible, uninhabitable wasteland of a world for our ... " She stuttered minutely before continuing, " ... children and their children.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#6. It feels like a threat. It feels like the world changing and leaving you behind.

Patrick Ness

#7. There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Bootsy Collins

#8. For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.

Bruce H. Lipton

#11. Change Agents have a "learning wheel" in their mind.

Pearl Zhu

#12. I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.

Gena Showalter

#13. America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Elizabeth George

#15. Never let anyone tell you that true love doesn't exist, because it does. The world may be leaving romance behind, but it can still live in our hearts if we let it. To lose romance would be one of the greatest tragedies. Keep it alive. If it dies the world will be a darker place.

Charisse Spiers

#16. [David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as long as it came in a single gigantic serving. Thus was born the two-quart bucket of popcorn, the sixty-four-ounce Big Gulp, and, in time, the Big Mac and the jumbo fries.

Michael Pollan

#17. The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Primo Levi

#18. And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

Jim Coleman

#19. 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

#20. We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.

Marilynne Robinson

#21. Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them.

Philip Pullman

#22. Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

Joseph Campbell

#23. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Oscar Wilde

#24. Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

Albert Claude

#25. A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

Kenneth Anger

#26. Patient Zero, Three Years to Live By Margaret Kane, Ph.D.

Margaret Kane

#27. The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air ... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

Philip Pullman

#28. Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.

Tom Standage

#29. All the stuff she says on the radio. It's just fear. The world is leaving people like her behind, and it scares the shit out of her.

Matthew Norman

#30. It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ...
Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.
Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else ...

Sanhita Baruah

#31. There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Frederick William Faber

#32. I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.

Nora Ephron

#33. No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

George Washington Carver

#34. I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

Evelyn Waugh

#35. Your Honor, if giving the finger is a motive for murder, then most everyone in this courtroom would be on trial

Kenneth Eade

#36. You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Jodi Picoult

#37. The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.

Sue Grafton

#38. The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best.

K.P. Yohannan

#39. Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it
unable quite to let each other go.

Kazuo Ishiguro