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Quotes About Departure

Between a man and a woman, betrayal is not the ultimate sin. It is the withdrawal and departure from one another devoid of a decent just!
~ Lukhman Pambra
The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of 'Pure Love' arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.
~ Dada Bhagwan
I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back.
~ A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
Travelers we are, in this journey of memory. Aboard together we might, and get off at different times.Still, memory lingers.
~ Anonymous
Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
~ George Sanders
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
~ Alexander Woollcott
She's gone," he answered.
~ Natalie Babbitt
And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang--they didn't even go out with a whimper. They went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then he left without paying the bill, because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
~ Charles Bukowski
eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
~ Charles Bukowski
she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
~ Charles Bukowski
it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
~ Charles Bukowski
When can I see you again?" "In 2 hours or tomorrow." I walked to the door. You walk like a poem," she said. "See you in 2 hours," I told her.
~ Charles Bukowski
Of course, you leave afterwards or get very drunk which is the same thing.
~ Charles Bukowski
when you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.
~ Charles Bukowski
is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything.
~ Charles Bukowski
now they are celebrating my demise in taverns I no longer frequent.
~ Charles Bukowski
It was a month or so later that Red's family moved. One day they were gone. Just like that.
~ Charles Bukowski
Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.
~ Charles Frazier
It's good to know certain things: What's departed, in order to know what's left to come; That water's immeasurable and incomprehensible And blows in the air Where all that's fallen and silent becomes invisible; That fire's the light our names are carved in. That shame is a garment of sorrow; That time is the Adversary, and stays sleepless and wants for nothing; That clouds are unequal and words are.
~ Charles Wright
Ungley had afforded Balaclava little enough diversion during his lifetime. Maybe he was atoning by departing in a fashion so much more dramatic than his lectures could ever have been.
~ Charlotte MacLeod