Left Behind Quotes - Page 18

• The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Importance

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• The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

  Milan Kundera

  Voice, Calling, Return

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• We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Men, Light

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• The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Riding, Ghost, Problem

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

  Tony Kushner

  Dream, Progress, World

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.285, Theatre Communications Group

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• How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

  Carson McCullers

  Soul, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Behinds

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.

  Chris Sanders

  Family, Mean, Forgotten

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• I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

  Kerry Packer

  Technology, Opportunity, Want

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• Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

  Edward Abbey

  Machines, Wilderness, Former

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

  Laura Dave

  Breakup, Thinking, People

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  Who Cares, Mark, Behinds

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Important Choices, Theory, Behinds

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Thinking, Effort

  "A Parent, Community, and National Audit: It’s Time for Adults to Shape up and Close the Hypocrisy Gap" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2011.

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• If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Goodbye, Teacher, Work

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• Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Kids, People

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Apr 07, 2011

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• If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Missing, Kind

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• The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Inspiration, Insecurity

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