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Quotes About Departure

Odchodzisz w cieniu, pomy?la?em. Tak, jak ?y?a?.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.
~ Carson McCullers
She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town.
~ Carson McCullers
April that year came sudden and still, and the green of the trees was a wild bright green. The pale wistarias bloomed all over town, and silently the blossoms shattered. There was something about the green trees and the flowers of April that made Frankie sad. She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town.
~ Carson McCullers
Pax Intrantibus, Salus Exeuntibus
~ Catherine Aird
You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
~ Celia Rees
He didn't say anything and just helped me to my room...He gently patted my back and then left the house and drove off to one of his stores in the city.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
I don't like having feelings, Eric said coldly, and he left.
~ Charlaine Harris
The fae were gone from America. Their departure point? Bon Temps, Louisiana. The woods behind my house.
~ Charlaine Harris
He didn't stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into oblivion. And that was the way things should be, as far as I was concerned. Life should imitate romance literature far more often.
~ Charlaine Harris
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
~ Julianna Baggott
I will leave no memoirs.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
I miss everything, fighting here, the friends, my family and the food, but I knew that to succeed and fulfill my dreams I needed to leave Mexico.
~ Andrade
Inglewood is a microcosm of Los Angeles. It's a city by the airport. It's the first city when you're coming into L.A., and the last city when you leave.
~ Rick Famuyiwa
When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
~ Paget Brewster
The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done seems to have been a taking leave of us. Suddenly the true nature of everything about him that was merely preparation for his ultimate death becomes truly visible.
~ Thomas Bernhard
With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.
~ Thomas Browne
What is it, Angel? she said, starting up. Have they come for me? Yes, dearest, he said. They have come. It is as it should be, she murmured. Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me! She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. I am ready, she said quietly.
~ Thomas Hardy
On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.
~ Thomas Hardy
Henery Fray was the first to follow. Then Gabriel arose and went off with Jan Coggan, who had offered him a lodging. A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry. Flourishing his finger ominously he threw a gaze teeming with tidings just where his eye alighted by accident, which happened to be in Joseph Poorgrass's face.
~ Thomas Hardy
You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?
~ Thomas Harris
Crawford got to his feet. "Director Noonan, may I say—" "You may leave, is what you may do," Krendler said.
~ Thomas Harris
For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Our product is still totally DeepArcher?" "Which is…" "Like 'departure', only you pronounce it DeepArcher?" "Zen thing," Maxine guesses. "Weed thing.
~ Thomas Pynchon