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Quotes About Departure

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
~ Richard Dawkins
Thus attired in the night of their grief, they prepared to depart into a morning she seemed determined not to relinquish.
~ Richard Flanagan
It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself.
~ Richard Ford
Les adieux classiques, où tout le monde respecte pieusement les formes, c'est l'exception, dans la vie, pas la règle.
~ Richard Ford
I'm forever amazed at how much fun it is to leave. Just to leave. Arriving has its points, but leaving is inexhaustible.
~ Richard Hell
Será mejor que se vaya, teniente. Todos estos prejuicios me dan dolor de cabeza.
~ Richard K. Morgan
We're leaving, I told her one July afternoon. We? You and I? Where are we going, young Master Paul? Do you have your belongings tied up in a red-spotted handkerchief on a stick?
~ Julian Barnes
Did you get a good look at her, then?" he added in a rush. Alec nodded. "You'll be taking her with you, won't you?" The Kincaid stared at the old man a long minute before answering. "Aye, Beak. I'll be taking her with me.
~ Julie Garwood
Anyone who had anything got out
~ Julie Salamon
The person they'd locked up last summer was gone, and she wasn't coming back.
~ Juliet Marillier
We head for the mainland, and the long journey home.
~ Juliet Marillier
Dar chiar ÅŸi cu bilete dus-întors, dac? punctul de plecare era diferit, destinaÅ£ia era, fireÅŸte, ÅŸi ea diferit?. Åži n-ar fi deloc straniu dac? biletul lui de întoarcere ar fi de fapt biletul ei de plecare.
~ K?b? Abe
Mi viene in mente che non riesco a ricordare nessun preciso particolare del Suo viso. Vedo ancora soltanto come Lei si allontanò poi tra i tavolini del caffè, la Sua figura, il Suo abito.
~ Kafka Franz
Blast the man! How dare he pack his bags and ride away after all the work she'd done! Worse, how dare he do it while looking so damned appealing?
~ Karen Hawkins
And that right there is the difference between me and my brother—I was always afraid of being made to leave and he was always leaving.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Will let out a long breath. She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again. Where does she go? I have no idea. You've never asked her? No. Sara Didn't pretend to understand. Why not?. He glanced out into the street, watching the traffic zoom by. It's complicated.
~ Karin Slaughter
Bodies are just leftovers, not the real event on death.
~ Kat Richardson
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.
~ Matthew Henry
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
~ Jonathan Swift
Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
~ Bob Dylan
Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. "I have come for the girl in the window," he said, and his eyes filled with tears
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.
~ Frederick Buechner
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg