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Quotes About Departing

It is always morning, the caravan is always departing. All we can do is share the Prophet's prayer - "O Lord increase our amazement" - and set forth into the Bewilderness.
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
~ Robert Benchley
Every believer departing this old earth ...immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself.
~ Paul P. Enns
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
There again is memory at my doorstep -- jasmine crushed under departing feet. The moon extinguishes its silver pain on the window.
~ Agha Shahid Ali
Sorry! Can't!' said Gilbert. 'Massage,' he explained, then exited the bar, apparently via catapult. 'Philip?' Claire said. My first impulse was to follow Gilbert's lead by briskly dismounting the couch and diving through the Gilbert-shaped hole he'd left in the wall on departing.
~ Joe Keenan
Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms....
~ Muhammad Imran Hasan
Trusting the Buddha, good and bad, I bid farewell To the departing year.
~ Issa (1763–1828)
When he was finished, he left without so much as a word.
~ Charles Martin
Bright sunset clouds, flushed with a crimson glow, Linger about the calm departing day, Like spirits round a good man's dying bed...
~ John Askham, "September"
I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that doing so will keep it from departing.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing.
~ Diana Gabaldon