Carson McCullers
Novelist
"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"
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Left Behind
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Diana Ross
Singer
"You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!"
Robert Smith
Musician
"I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'"
Ovid
Poet
"When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?"
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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."
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"There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts."
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"Don't think about what you've left behind."
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"Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again."
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"In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind."
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"All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg."
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"I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride."
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"What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us."
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"Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind."
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