Quotes for All
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea. Gao Xingjian
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind. Errol Morris
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me. Ernie Pyle
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. Eric Hoffer
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: ‘I bet … Read more
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind. Emanuel Swedenborg
back turned, you don’t have to look at what you’ve left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can’t watch you break down and cry. Ellen Hopkins
I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that love doesn’t last? Doesn’t really exist? Afraid if her own father can withdraw his love (or at least the manifestation of his love), that maybe she somehow isn’t worthy of … Read more
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. Ellen Glasgow