Quotes About Departure

Don't go away mad, just go away!

There is time for departure even when theres no certain place to go.

I want to travel anywhere I want, anytime I want. I want to come back here and know I can leave.

Good-bye, America, the grizzled captain said during our ascent, looking out the window at a landscape I could not see from my aisle seat. I've had enough of you, he said. The affectless lieutenant, sitting in the middle, agreed. Why did we ever call it the beautiful country? he said. I had no answer.

The General, who hardly ever raised his voice, now did. Unofficially, you are abandoning us, he shouted. All day and night planes depart from the airport. Everyone who works with Americans wants an exit visa. They go to your embassy for these visas. You have evacuated your own women. You have evacuated babies and orphans. Why is it that the only people who do not know the Americans are pulling out are the Americans?

He who leaves and then returns will have a good trip.

if you attempt an investigation for truth that is independent from truth, then your investigation departs from truth at the very beginning, and there is no way that you will arrive at truth when you start out by running away from it. In bringing them to faith in Christ, God saves his elect from their initial intellectual waywardness.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

If I should later come to see that I did wrong, well, then I shall of course be sorry, but as it is I have been unable to see how else I could possibly have acted. When somebody tells me decisively, 'Get out of my house, the sooner the better, in half an hour rather than an hour,' well then, my dear fellow, it doesn't take a quarter of an hour for me to leave, never to return either.

For the rest, however, one might say that Mother is looking particularly well. But there is something that makes me think of what I told you. I don't think it would be a bad idea at all if Mother made a few trips shortly, to Anna, to Amsterdam, to Cor - especially as she seems to be resolved on it and to long to see them all once more. But it might well be that she herself has a presentiment that at the same time it will be a leave-taking.

Quand on aime on est toujours sur le quai d'une gare.

Unwillingly I left your land, O Queen.

Before us lies eternity; our souls Are love, and a continual farewell.

O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' love That had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stay Have changed their silk for sack.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;

How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away

Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.