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Quotes About Departure

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?
~ Murasaki Shikibu
I left them all and walked briskly towards the aeroplane not looking back, looking only at my shadow before me, a dancing dwarf on the tarmac (122).
~ Naipaul V.S
With the departure of the acknowledged head of the Catholic party, the Protestants gained a degree of influence over the royal family completely out of proportion to their numbers in the general population.
~ Nancy Goldstone
To make matters worse, Linda, it appears, is madly in love with a monster of a Scotsman, who came to dinner last night in his kilt. Those hairy old knees decided us. The Mountains I can bear, said Loudie. Natives in the semi-nude at dinner time is another matter. I leave tomorrow.
~ Nancy Mitford
ese rumor de aliento libre en primavera que corre al mar para volver y volver a partir. that whisper of the free breath of spring that flows seaward only to return returning only to depart again. (de Negro)
~ Nancy Morejón
By dawn, June 18, 1778, an eerie silence surrounded the docks of Philadelphia, which were strewn with tables, chests and other household goods. Tossed overboard by the departing British to make room for military gear, those possessions were the remaining personal effects of the three thousand Tories who had streamed onto British ships and sailed for New York City the preceding day.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?
~ Naomi Novik
We leave tonight, he continued, very cold and calm, and we take the eggs with us.
~ Naomi Novik
De school. De hele school. Wij gaan weg en we vullen de hele school met mals.' Ik staarde haar aan. 'En dan? Schoppen we het hele zwikkie de leegte in of zo?' 'Ja!' zei Liu.
~ Naomi Novik
Nuestro sino es marcharnos [...]. No hemos de quedarnos para siempre.
~ Naomi Novik
There may be, and there usually is, one love experience which leaves a deeper imprint on the heart than all the others, but all love experiences are beneficial, except to the person who becomes resentful and cynical when love makes its departure.
~ Napoleon Hill
Death comes once, let it be easy.
~ Carl Sandburg
When the rose's flash to the sunset Reels to the wrack and the twist, And the rose is a red bygone, When the face I love is going And the gate to the end shall clang, And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"— Maybe I'll tell you then— some other time.
~ Carl Sandburg
Siempre había pensado que las viejas estaciones de ferrocarril eran uno de los pocos lugares mágicos que quedaban en el mundo. En ellas se mezclaban los fantasmas de recuerdos y despedidas con el inicio de cientos de viajes a destinos lejanos, sin retorno. Si algun dia me pierdo, que me busquen en una estación de tren, pensé.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Los muertos nunca acuden a su propio entierro.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sólo desaparece la gente que tiene algún sitio adonde ir
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People only dissappear when they have somewhere to go
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Marino, zabra?a? ze sob? wszystkie odpowiedzi.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Cómo se sale de aqui? -Si tanta prisa tiene... Hay dos maneras, la permanente y la temporal. La permanente es por el tejado: un buen salto y se libra usted de toda esa bazofia para siempre. La salida temporal está por allí, al fondo, donde anda aquel atontado puño en alto al que se le caen los pantalones y hace el saludo revolucionario a todo el que pasa. Pero si sale por ahí, tarde o temprano volverá aquí.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Només desapareix la gent que té algun lloc on anar.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sabien que aquell dia una llum s'apagava al món i que, a partir d'ara, tots estarien més sols, més buits.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Te vas en sombras, pensé. Como viviste.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
His legacy to me was his considerable repertoire of smoke and mirrors. And he asked me to let him go, because he had been born to be forgotten.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon