Leave - Quotes
It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
While we try not to think about it, nearly the only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we will one day die and leave everything behind; and yet, paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to believe that this is so.
The truth is, you come into this world alone and leave it the exact same way.
When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that`s when he won`t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.
Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn`t stop for anybody.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, [...] and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
Leave home in the sunshine:
Dance through a meadow,
Or sit by a stream and just be.
The lilt of the water,
Will gather your worries,
And carry them down to the sea.
My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
We can`t leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there`s the afterbirth.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
We can start over. Every day, we get second chances to become who we always wanted to be. We can leave our past behind or we can learn from it and honor it. We can decide. It`s never too late to change.