Something Left Behind Quotes

#1. One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

David Auburn

#2. I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life - as something I have passed, rather than have actually been - and almost think of him as of someone else.

Charles Dickens

#3. Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

Stephen Levine

#4. You don't want me, and I don't want anybody else. So I'll just be . . . left behind. Left to pick up the pieces of my dreams and my heart when you get up from this table and walk away, shattering them both because the girl who means everything never even gave me a chance to mean something.

Elizabeth Hayley

#5. Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

Donna Farhi

#6. I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name.

Carlos Wallace

#7. That tug against my heart, the painless, invisible cord trying to pull me forward, rips something from me like the shirt being torn from my back, and I scream as part of me is left behind.

Celine Kiernan

#8. People break all the time, no lie there and when that wretched break happens something is usually lost, left behind confused or some is hurt, a member of the family, a child, pure and innocent of the cruel world, dangerous adult men and women.

Abigail George

#9. If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

Jakob Dylan

#10. He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust

J.M. Coetzee

#11. When that girl left, she left behind this void. No, maybe not. Maybe she just showed me something that was already there, inside me.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.

C.J. Box

#13. I collected the papers, wrapped them back in the rubber band, and felt a small grief, like a person who discovers, upon returning from a trip, that something has been left behind and there is no way now to retrieve it.

Mitch Albom

#14. Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

Paula Wall

#15. Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost
something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.

William Kent Krueger

#17. something happened to you, think how helpful it would be for your loved ones left behind to have a copy of the key

Mark Gavagan

#18. For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

John Thorn

#19. For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

Lois Lowry

#20. I'm not doing anything that is going to destroy my. Stillm there is something quiet left behind. Like sediment in a bottle of wine.

Haruki Murakami

#21. and my pack so light I'm sure I've left something behind -

but only my worry, and only for a moment.

Jameson Fitzpatrick

#22. The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little. We blur and blend to the murky shades left behind when something vivid dies.

Will Ludwigsen

#23. Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

Thomas Mars

#24. Everywhere you went, you left something behind. Maybe someday he would come back and get it.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#25. Just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere.

Morgan Matson

#26. It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

Lemony Snicket

#27. Patrick had left behind some writings, and one of his most famous works was something many of us learned in school called "Saint Patrick's Breastplate," a kind of a cross between a hymn and a poem.

Frank Delaney

#28. You see, love isn't just something you feel. Love is something you become. It's like - going to a new country, and realizing that you never particularly liked the place you left behind. It's like a sort of tingling and - oh, I don't know - when she smiles I just want to start clapping or something.

Anthony Capella

#29. And the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

Jennifer E. Smith

#30. Looking at a man as though he was something the horse left behind isn't the way to elicit confidences.

Loretta Chase

#31. If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

Lars Von Trier

#32. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

Rebecca Solnit

#33. It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

Nicholas Sparks

#34. And though there was something pathetic about it - taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat ...

Donna Tartt

#35. She'd thought she'd left this behind. This crushing awful feeling of something unfulfilled, something she kept reaching for only to be dragged away and mired in others' needs and expectations and the cloying sick grasping of their love.

Cole McCade

#36. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.

Angeles Kossio

#37. Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer.

Nicholas Sparks

#39. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

Eckhart Tolle

#40. I'm sure it was a good house in its time as well, but sometimes what is left behind when something has been lost is even better than the thing that came before.

Susanna Kearsley

#41. We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Mimi Kennedy

#42. In general, it is the people who are left behind stationary, who give way to low spirits at any parting; the travellers, however bitterly they may feel the separation, find something in the change of scene to soften regret in the very first hour of separation.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#43. I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

Jim Croce

#44. It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Jodi Picoult

#45. I want people to understand something I learned only recently: that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons of the life we left behind continue to chase us. There

J.D. Vance

#46. Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.

Hanya Yanagihara

#47. From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

Stanley Hauerwas

#48. He tried to make each painting capture that gently fuzzed qualit the camera gave everything, as if someone had patted away a top layer of clarity and left behind something kinder than the eye alone would see.

Hanya Yanagihara

#49. Fire consumes.' Lord Beric stood behind them, and there was something in his voice that silenced Thoros at once. 'It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing.

George R R Martin

#50. All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?

Thomas Ligotti

#51. The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

John Jakes

#52. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein

Jon Krakauer

#53. Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Arthur Golden

#54. Anyone who says the past was perfect is a liar and wasn't there. Everything that thinks can aspire, and everything that aspires wants something better than what they've left behind them.

Seanan McGuire

#55. We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.

Siegfried Sassoon

#56. Baby that's impossible, you can't give him something you don't have. That man who just walked out of this house, he's the one who has the majority of it. Chris, he only has the tiny pieces that were left behind when it got broken

R.S. Burnett

#57. Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#58. There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind.

Gayle Forman

#59. And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because their love was rooted in common things.

E. M. Forster

#60. You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

Steven Spielberg

#61. She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.

L.M. Montgomery

#62. I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.

Rick Riordan

#63. The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved, was gone, but I kept looking for her - long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal.

Vladimir Nabokov

#64. Lily kept her smile. She knew a little something about loss and what it was all about in the end. She searched for her answers in those items left behind.

Jack Bates

#65. It's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious occupation. As if this ugly dream and all the impressions it left behind are so dear to me that I'm even afraid to touch it with something new, lest it vanish in smoke!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#66. The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

Jim Clyburn