Quotes About Departure

the fact that most people live and die where they were born, or they leave home and live somewhere else for decades but come back to pass away, like migrating birds

It's amazing how easily someone can leave your life. It's standing on a beach and stepping back to see the hole of your footprint subsumed by the sand and the sea as if it were never there. Grief, it turns out, is a lot like a one-sided video conversation on an iPad. It's the call with no response, the echo of affection, the shadow cast by love. But just because you can't see it anymore doesn't make it any less real.

I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much of anything at all

I don't know why, when it comes to death, we say we lost someone. They're not missing or misplaced. They're whisked away from the tightest embrace.

If I hadn't left at that moment, I knew I would have stayed forever.

I wonder how someone can leave in the blink of an eye without you even noticing.

i had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it. For

They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.

I won't be coming back, she replied, taking the ticket from his hands and placing it carefully in her purse, for she had a sense that this might be an item that would be worth holding on to, a paper memory with the date of the beginning of her new life stamped across it in heavy black ink.

Oh, God, you bore me this morning," my wife said. "I've been bored for the last six years," I said. I took a cab to the airport and an afternoon plane back to the city. We had been married twelve years and had been lovers for two years before our marriage, making a total of fourteen years in all that we had been together, and I never saw her again.

Goodbye, Daddy, I said, and I went down the stairs and got my train, and that was the last time I saw my father.

Time passes. Memories fade. Feelings change. People leave. But hearts never forget.

He gave me nothing, and he took it with him when he left.

I would rather leave now still loving you then to leave later hating you.

If you love me as much as you say you do then you'll leave.

I could fill out a thousand pages telling you how I felt and still you would not understand. So now I leave without a sound, except my heart shattering as it hits the ground.

Forever has 7 letters, but so does goodbye....

Remember the feelings, remember the day, my stone heart was breaking, my love ran away.

Time will pass, Memories will fade, Feelings will change, People will leave, but the heart never forgets.

When the trust is gone so am I.

Don't be surprised that when you finally realized that you care, you look behind... and I'm not there.

Some people do not want to lose you, but don't make way for you to stay.

She will cry and get over it, she will hate you and then love you again but, one day she will leave and wont come back.