Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
Manuel Puig

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Thomas Mann

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
John French Sloan

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
Wilford Brimley

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.
Nicholas Culpeper

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Algernon Sydney

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
Janis Ian

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Thomas Beecham