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Quotes About Departure

When you are thinking about going away for a long duration mission, it has to be part of your mindset that you're leaving your family, but it's for the right reasons, for good reasons, and hopefully helping humanity.
~ Sunita Williams
I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.
~ John Andre
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
~ Camille Claudel
I was not happy when we lost Morgan Schneiderlin, Nat Clyne and other players of that quality at Southampton.
~ Ronald Koeman
After that, we had no
~ Thomas Wolfe
She went away in beauty's flower, Before her youth was spent; Ere life and love had lived their hour God called her, and she went. Yet whispers Faith upon the wind: No grief to her was given. She left your love and went to find A greater one in heaven.
~ Thomas Wolfe
There's a sad feeling in a place people have just walked out of and left behind.
~ Tim Winton
I meant to slip away, he said, busking it now.
~ Tim Winton
he embraced only a presumption of laissez-faire. That is, the burden is on the proponent of government to show that the greater happiness requires intervention: every departure from (laissez-faire), unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
~ Todd G. Buchholz
They were wheels-up in less than fifteen minutes.
~ Tom Clancy
El Apache ya se alejaba, por orden de Ozzy.
~ Tom Clancy
Spirits forget how painful it is for those on the physical plane to leave and the physical forget what it means to be united with spirit.
~ Tom Hart
the cause of what they called the "Sudden Departure" remained unknown
~ Tom Perrotta
A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.
~ Tom Robbins
No, no, no... you've got it all wrong... you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen ---it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back---an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
~ Tom Stoppard
I'm leaving everything here. Your records? No. Everything else.
~ Tom Stoppard
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.
~ Toni Morrison
You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
~ Toni Morrison
He dragged her under him and made love to her with the steadiness and the intensity of a man about to leave for Dayton.
~ Toni Morrison
he left her like a skunk leaves a smell.
~ Toni Morrison
Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it
~ Tony Judt
There's an old Army officer tradition. When you leave a post, you write 'ppc' on the back of your business card and pin it to the officers' club bulletin board or similar public place. 'Ppc' is an acronym for a French term pour prendre conge, in English, 'to take leave.' It was our final departing courtesy
~ Tony Koltz
His parting would have been solemn but we were too busy to think much of it. We were weaving fourteen hours a day then, with hardly a moment for meals, and I was dizzy with the pattern of the tapestry in front of me even when I wasn't weaving. I fell into bed each night and slept without moving until Madeleine woke me in the morning. There was little time left to think about a man's departure. The night before Nicolas went the
~ Tracy Chevalier
The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox.
~ Tracy Chevalier