Quotes About Departure

Langdon joined her at the book, peering down at the text. Now that he knew the line, he was able to make out the faint handwritten letters: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns.

And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days;

This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.

I thought it was one thing but it was the other, it was zero zero zero alone on the bus while you slept in the room I had to leave, and that's why we broke up.

Before he could say any more or try to stop me, I was out of the lab, and I caught the elevator down and out of Beekman for the last time.

When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.

The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

One morning toward the beginning of that time, while he still remained in charge of his life, though we could see that his departure had begun

Leo flounced off through the doors.

and headed back towards the entrance of the lagoon, but the

T]he thing about someone who is escaping is this: he's more concerned about what he's leaving than what he's going to.

Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh. - LOVE'S SECRET

God, so long worshipp'd, departs as a lamp / Without oil.

He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter...

Then she too seemed to blow out of his life on the long wind like a third scrap of paper.

His WIFE, understanding everything, wants him to stay. MARVIN wants to go. Or MARVIN wants to stay. She wants him to go. Anyway, he's going.)