Leaving Me Quotes - Page 13

• Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

  Tom Robbins

  Dark, Night, Don't Leave Me

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.92, Bantam

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• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

  Mason Cooley

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members

  Elliott Smith

  Leaving, Paws, Bears

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• Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye

  Faraaz Kazi

  Goodbye, Lying, Ifs

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• Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beauty, Genius, Mediocrity

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144

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• I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted...leaving me broken hearted.

  Chris Elam

  Sad Love, Heart, Broken

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• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sorry, Practice, Hopeful

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• When I was 12 years old, I was just horrible. My parents were ashamed to watch my matches. I would play on a court at the local club and they would watch from the balcony. They would scream, 'Be quiet' to me and I would scream back, 'Go and have a drink. Leave me alone.' Then we would drive home in a very quiet car. No one speaking to each other.

  Roger Federer

  Home, Years, Play

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• Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

  Louise Bernikow

  Sister, Children, Sibling

  Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

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• I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.

  Eddie Long

  Leaving, Don't Leave Me, Ifs

  "Rick's List" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2010.

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Fellow Man, Ecstasy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1464, Harvard University Press

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• In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Want, Handsome

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1948.

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• I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Love, Heart, Broken

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• In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fighting, Who I Am, Leave Me Alone

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• I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Power, Night, Fire

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.182, Penguin Books India

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• Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Real, Eye, Home

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• I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace You. Oh, never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of Your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech You, absorb my mind that I may die through love of Your love, Who were graciously pleased to die through love of my love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sweet, Jesus, Love You

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• I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

  Emily Dickinson

  Trying, Littles, Force

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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• All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.

  E. M. Forster

  Trying, Cold, Daily Life

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 251, to Florence Barger, December 23, 1924.

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• Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

  Nicole Brossard

  Unique, Energy, Synthesis

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• In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Careers, Directors, Labels

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• I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Land, Enemy

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Leave Me Alone, Trying

  "J.J. Abrams Talks STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, 3D, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5, the FRINGE Finale, Future Projects, Maintaining Secrecy and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 6, 2013.

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• The joy of the Lord is my strength, knowing that He is with me, knowing that He will never leave me, knowing that He is bigger than any circumstance, and that He loves us. It's not about Nick being happy but Nick's trust in God. It is not that everything is going smoothly. It is not that Nick never cries or Nick is never fearful anymore.

  Nick Vujicic

  Knowing, Joy, Trust In God

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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