Quotes About Departure

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

Death cancels all engagements.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

... And death unloads thee.

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Death's long anabasis.

You got away from Palestine and the homeland. You got away from Brookline and the relatives. You got away from New York

It was all remarkable. Good-bye, remarkable. Egypt and Greece good-bye, and good-bye, Rome!

We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.

DEPARTURE The horizon slopes away The days are longer Trip A heart hops in a cage A bird sings It is going to die Another door is going to open At the end of the corridor Where a star Begins to shine A dark-haired woman The lantern of the departing train (Departure)

POST Not a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

You seem to think me inferior to the swans in prophecy. They sing before too, but when they realize that they must die they sing most and most beautifully, as they rejoice that they are about to depart to [85] join the god whose servants they are. But men, because of their own fear of death, tell lies about the swans and say that they lament their death and sing in sorrow.

Doch jetzt ist's Zeit fortzugehen: für mich, um zu sterben, für euch, um zu leben. Wer von uns dem besseren Los entgegengeht, ist uns allen unbrkannt - das weiß nur Gott.

Andrè fu il primo a partire, mentre parlava, a metà di una frase, come si spegne una candela.

I slammed the car door, and we sped away.

You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

I knew she was leaving. I knew we were never going to date long-distance. I knew that we wouldn't have been able to be like this back when we were dating, so there was no use in regretting what hasn't happened. I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to? When the club closes or when everyone leaves?

Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave