1.
And I'm lost behind
The words I'll never find
And I'm left behind
As seasons roll on by
Chris Cornell
I'm stranded without the speech to articulate my feelings,
Abandoned as time ceaselessly marches on.
2.
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
Anthony Browne
3.
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
Carson McCullers
4.
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
Kiran Desai
5.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
6.
You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!
Diana Ross
7.
I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic
Grace Coddington
8.
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Jeanette Winterson
9.
I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.
Maurice Gibb
10.
I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.
Jim Croce
11.
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
Audrey Niffenegger
12.
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Jerry B. Jenkins
13.
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.'
Robert Smith
14.
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Travis Tritt
15.
When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
Ovid
16.
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
Ratan Tata
17.
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
John Green
18.
We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
Steven Pressfield
19.
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.
Edward Abbey
20.
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
Bill Bryson
21.
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
22.
There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.
P. C. Cast
23.
Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
Cy Coleman
24.
To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.
Natsuki Takaya
25.
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
26.
Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?
Atsushi
27.
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
Stephen Greenblatt
28.
If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.
Alan Armstrong
29.
Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.
Stephen King
30.
Tears for the mourners who are left behind
Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
Lucretius
32.
In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
Coco Chanel
33.
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.
George Santayana
34.
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
Jim DeMint
35.
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
Richard Dawkins
36.
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
Rufus Wainwright
37.
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
Joel Barlow
38.
Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
Statius
39.
Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
Sara Sheridan
41.
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
Jessica Sorensen
42.
Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
Darynda Jones
43.
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
Sarah Dessen
44.
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
Melina Marchetta
45.
No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.
Hillary Clinton
46.
Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?
Brom
47.
Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.
Tiger Woods
48.
I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.
Henry Rollins
49.
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
Frances Hardinge
50.
NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".
Jim DeMint