Quotes About Departure

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you

Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Wonderful to depart! Wonderful to be here! The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood! To breathe the air, how delicious! To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand! To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh! To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large! To be this incredible God I am! To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love. - from Song at Sunset

At the entrance, a mailbox: last opportunity to make some sign to the world one is leaving.

He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion.

Head of Disney Studios, clashed with Eisner and resigned

After you interact with Ginevra de' Benci long enough, what at first seem like a vacant face and distant stare begin to appear suffused with a haunting tinge of emotion. She seems pensive and ruminating, perhaps about her marriage or the departure of Bembo, or because of some deeper mystery. Her life was sad; she was sickly and remained childless. But she also had an inner intensity. She wrote poetry, one line of which survives: "I ask your forgiveness; I am a mountain tiger.

often think of how so many people have walked into my life for just a few minutes and kicked up some dust, then they're gone away.

I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away; I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay. MALLET.

At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.

He drifted out the door like a handful of black feathers cast on a winter's breeze.

The slightest departure from absolute obedience to God's law is sin.

come on, you" (last words from flight 128)

When he was finished, he left without so much as a word.

A lot of people leave Arkansas and most of them come back sooner or later. They can't quite achieve escape velocity.

The night before Al left, they partied at the Rocking Chair, a club where Ray Charles would later be discovered.

This night is my departing night, For here nae longer must I stay; There's neither friend nor foe of mine But wishes me away. What I have done through lack of wit, I never, never can recall: I hope ye're all my friends as yet. Good night, and joy be with you all. Armstrong's Good Night

A "B" when you (be - here) and a "B" when you (be-gone ).

Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)

Wanting to leave is enough.

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

I imagined our mother crossing a great river on Lady's strong back, finally leaving us nearly three years after she died. I wanted it to be true. It was the thing I wished for when I had a wish to make.

She would always be my mother, I told her, but I had to go. She wasn't there for me in that flowerbed anymore anyway, I explained. I'd put her somewhere else. The only place I could reach her. In me.

Every shut-eye ain't sleep and every good-bye ain't gone.