Leave behind Quotes

“You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!”

“Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.”

“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”

“Some people behind leave a legacy, some leave behind children. Which would you prefer?”

“We have relinquished and abandoned and left behind and forgotten what we believed we had to relinquish, abandon and leave behind and ultimately forget; we have let ourselves go and we have gone away and we have gone under, but we have relinquished nothing and abandoned nothing and left behind nothing and forgotten nothing; we have in reality extinguished nothing whatsoever, because our parents did not inform us of or enlighten us about the fact that our life-process is in reality nothing but a process of illness. We were up above, in the company of our parents, locked up in our walls and in our rooms and in our books and papers and everything around us and in us was nothing but lethal and we are down below, without our parents, again locked up in these walls and in our rooms and in our books and papers and everything around us and in us is nothing but lethal.”

“The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.”

“I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.”

“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.”

“But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.”