Top 100 When You Leave Quotes
#1. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
Anne Fadiman
#2. A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
Bill Engvall
#4. Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Claude Bernard
#5. The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
Yoko Ono
#6. I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
Don McLean
#7. I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
Miranda July
#8. My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
Abbey Clancy
#9. That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about.
Neal Stephenson
#10. You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.
Pascal Bruckner
#11. I'll miss you every day for the rest of my life. You're my heart and it'll go with you. I'll be here, and I'll hold your hand, and you focus on me, and when you leave me, you won't be alone. Don't be afraid. We won't be saying good-bye, baby. Just, 'til later.
T.A. Webb
#12. It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.
Danny Bautista
#13. Nothing is as frightening as the thought that only blackness will greet you when you leave this life.
David Dalglish
#14. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. My mom instilled in me at a young age how important it is to be properly dressed when you leave the house, no matter the time of day. Even if it's 4:30 A.M. and you're heading to the airport, you want to look and feel your best.
Olivia Palermo
#16. Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become stunted child parts disguised in a grown-up body.
Angela Hoke
#17. Let's walk down the road that has no end
Steal away where only angels tread
Heaven or hell or somewhere in between
Cross your heart to take me when you leave
Don't go
Please don't go
Don't go without me
The Civil Wars
#18. 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
#19. There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets ... when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
Charles Bukowski
#20. A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.
Terence McKenna
#21. What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.
Abigail Breslin
#22. My heart is where you are, Ainsley. So when you leave ... " Cameron made an empty gesture.
"I'll come back," she said stubbornly.
"To this wreck of a man? Why should you?"
"Because I love you
Jennifer Ashley
#23. Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#24. All right, Jeffy. Here are some big-boy pants. Put 'em on and crank out fifty miles for me. By the way, the iPod only has one playlist on it. Press play when you leave the starting line, okay?
Jordan Sonnenblick
#25. When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
Utah Phillips
#26. When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.
David Einhorn
#27. When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.
Crystal Woods
#28. When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.
Eric Thomas
#30. 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
#31. When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.
Erma Bombeck
#32. I want to believe your love is only for me. That your lips are mine. That your kisses are meant for me. That your body belongs to me." His arms move to my waist and tighten around me and he presses his hard body against mine. "But when you leave me to see him, it's hard to know for sure.
Kim Karr
#33. I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.
Sloane Crosley
#34. I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.
Drew Barrymore
#35. Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
Alison Owen
#36. You might be a redneck if when you leave your house, you are followed by federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the only thing you worry about is if you can lose them or not.
Jeff Foxworthy
#37. In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#38. Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
#39. The secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. - Quentin
John Green
#40. I get so high when you're with me then crash and crave you when you leave
Ke$ha
#41. When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.
Jimmy Breslin
#42. There are no true monsters, only some people [ ... ] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [ ... ] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture.
Jim Harrison
#43. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received
only what you have given.
Francis Of Assisi
#44. Asylums are crazy places, with crazy rules. If you're not mad when you arrive, you are when you leave. (That's if you ever leave.) I was lucky ... I got slung out; they couldn't afford to keep me any longer.
Stephen Richards
#45. L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.
Steve Martin
#46. There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.
Hunter Tylo
#47. I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#48. The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
David Coverdale
#49. A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........
Anonymous
#50. Our greatest value is to reproduce ourselves in the lives of others. When you leave behind a vibrant Christian who knows his calling and his commission, you can be buried, but you will live on through all those in whom you have been reproduced.
Jerry Falwell
#51. The noise the phone makes when you leave it off the hook It stops after a while.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.
Jennifer Crusie
#53. When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. But London didn't care, she never does when you leave her because she knows for every one that leaves another two arrive. Besides, she was too busy painting on her neon lipstick and dolling herself up in red and gold.
Ben Aaronovitch
#55. 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
#56. This is real, then?" Jaron's heart pounded, though he couldn't tell whether it was from sadness or fear for his future. "When you leave, I'm no longer Prince Jaron. I'll be nothing but a commoner. An orphan.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#57. I never knew anybody ... who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.
Iwan Rheon
#59. The easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up.
Ransom Riggs
#60. Am I hurting you?" he asked, his voice breaking and his eyes vulnerable.
"The only time you ever hurt me is when you leave me," she replied, wrapping herself around him. "Don't ever leave me again.
Josephine Angelini
#61. This life is a journey and it is one that can be snatched right out of our hands. Therefore it is wise to know where you are going when you leave this life behind.
Robin Bertram
#62. I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.
Kate Hudson
#63. Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
Wendell Berry
#64. Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
Ayn Rand
#65. It was like when you see a movie in the theater during the day, and when you leave the movie, you can't believe that it's still daylight outside
Stephen Chbosky
#66. It's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut-down.
Steve Maraboli
#67. Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.
Wayne Dyer
#68. It's basically my fear about what happens when you leave a room. Everyone says the thing about you that you really can't bear.
Meg Wolitzer
#69. It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
Piers Corbyn
#70. Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.
Alan Cohen
#71. When you leave a place, it's best to leave.
John Green
#72. What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
Ken Robinson
#73. Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.
Richard Rohr
#74. When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Anna Quindlen
#75. When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing.
Annie Lobert
#76. Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.
John Green
#77. Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
Ray Bradbury
#78. But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.
Guy Forget
#79. When you leave," Gwen said, "take Mouse. Give Ryn's horse to Myron."
"What does Myron need with a horse?" he asked. Gwen just smiled, and Royce knew better than to question further. "Okay, but I'm warning you now. He'll spoil it rotten
Michael J. Sullivan
#80. 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
#81. I'm afraid that, if I let myself feel ecstatic about being with you, then when you leave me, I won't be able to pull myself back together..
Jodi Picoult
#82. When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T.D. Jakes
#83. When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.
Flannery O'Connor
#84. If people don't feel any emptiness when you leave a place, then it means you were an emptiness for them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn't love, but gratitude.
Kelly Moran
#86. When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
Gabriel Iglesias
#87. When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
Alfred Polgar
#88. You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me.
Sam Shepard
#89. When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Alex Van Halen
#90. Moon, moon,
when you leave me alone
all the darkness is
an utter blackness,
a pit of fear,
a stench,
hands unreasonable
never to touch.
But I love you.
Do you love me.
What to say
when you see me.
Robert Creeley
#91. -What do you hate most? he asks.
-A lie. And you?
-Ownership, he says. When you leave me, forget me.
Michael Ondaatje
#92. Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian
#93. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.
David Baldacci
#94. because the easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up, I passed with flying colors.
Ransom Riggs
#95. When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
Pat Riley
#96. Remember this when you leave me here: that your sweetest face and loving voice, I forevermore hold dear.
Chrissy Moon
#98. But I'm gonna make sure when you leave here, you'll know three things very well. How to think. How to not die. And how to live." For
Lucian Bane
#99. You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you'll never be the same again
Azar Nafisi
#100. Well, just remember
all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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