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Quotes About Departure

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.
~ Peter Jurasik
It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.
~ Candace Bushnell
I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.
~ Frida Kahlo
I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.
~ Kim Yuna
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
With every farewell comes a hidden hope.
~ Paulo Coelho
Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if I were a ship with their hope on it, dropping down over the horizon.
~ Alice Munro
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
~ Mark Twain
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
~ Billy Collins
Awe! Leaving so soon?" Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. "I was just about to pull out the gun for you to play single-player Russian Roulette.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Keepers
I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.
~ Ally Spina
A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
~ Karl Marx
True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.
~ Jamie Muir
The people of the stone houses are gone, whirled like chaff over dry fields, scattered by the war dances of dust devils. what remains — sculpted walls, curved shards, small stores of corn — says little. What we know is that they lived like birds. That from their doorways they looked out and out over shimmering trees into the arms of sky, And that one day, light-boned, weightless as any winged flock before a journey, they rose and flew. —Mesa Verde
~ Jane Candia Coleman
Throughout the ages, humans have had a need to mark the time and place when and where people make the final stop on their journey from this world to the next.
~ Jane Eppinga
Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.
~ Jane Hamilton
When the body dies, where will they go, those migrant birds and prayer calls, as heat from sheets when taken from a dryer? With voices of the ones I loved, great loves and small loves, train wheels, crickets, clock-ticks, thunder – where will they, when in fragrant, tumbled heat they also leave?
~ Jane Hirshfield
the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country?
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
The godwits vanish towards another summer. Everywhere in light and calm the murmuring Shadow of departure; distance looks our way; And none knows where he will lie down at night.
~ Janet Frame
Death steals a part of you.
~ Janet Griffin
My heart was already cracked, but this one word, gone, was the stone that broke it.
~ Janet Lee Carey
CEOs and senior leaders who are thinking about leaving a company have effectively already left, and the biggest favor they can do the organization is to get out of the way and allow the business to change and grow.
~ Jason Jennings