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Quotes About Departure

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
~ Jessamyn West
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
~ Jean Baudrillard
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.
~ Alex Campbell
Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
~ Charlotte Bronte
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. "Anyone else here feel like swooning?
~ Richelle Mead
At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
~ William Shakespeare
The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
~ Lauren DeStefano
My native land, good night!
~ Lord Byron
All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.
~ Thomas Nash
I do not expect to see home again.
~ Edward Snowden
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
~ Jean Cocteau
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
~ Tryon Edwards
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
~ James Buchanan
Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving
~ Confucius
We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
~ John Milton
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
~ Anne Sexton
The world's thy ship and not thy home.
~ Therese of Lisieux
The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home. Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden, Without me, will still bear flowers.
~ Su Ting
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.
~ Dido Armstrong