#leaving

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#good #however #leaving #market #necessarily

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#believed #crowd #down #during #father

The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

#appearance #been #begin #better #character

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. ↗

— Irving Howe

#behind #engaging #imagination #leaving #reality

You can't go home again ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#inspirational #leaving #loss #return #inspirational

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #love

If it's the beaches If it's the beaches' sands you want then you will have them If it's the mountains' bending rivers then you will have them If it's the wish to run away Then I will grant it ↗

— Avett Brothers

#love #running-away #wishes #love

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee. ↗

— John Green

#humor #leaving #paper-towns #pee #young-adult

But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn't mean them) and I was ready to follow. It was worse to think of staying behind, to grind one day upon another. Nothing to hold me here. None to regret my leaving, save Az. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#leaving #love #running-away #love