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Quotes About Departure

The pattern is clear: dissent, lose, and leave (or be forced out).
~ David P. Gushee
Soon there'll be nothing left of me Nothing left to release
~ David Robert Jones
But you know, I don't think I would be so scared to die. I think it's like today—the end of a vacation, when you are ready to go home.
~ David Sheff
John trotted up, carrying his satchel. "Yes. Wexler's gone. We need your car." "What? Why?" John circled around to the passenger-side door and said, "Car chase.
~ David Wong
Would it not be the beautiful thing now If you were coming instead of going…
~ David Yeadon
The sky is only now turning morning pink. I have that leaving-early-on-a trip feeling, where you're tired but excited and you get to see what's going on in the hours when you're usually still asleep.
~ Deb Caletti
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
~ Richard Leakey
I watched them taxi off across the grass and take off.
~ Jay Spenser
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
~ Jean Cocteau
You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....
~ Jean Genet
Divine departed as she would have desired, in a mixture of fantasy and sordidness.
~ Jean Genet
Divine departed as she would have desired, in a mixture of fantasy and sordidness. Divine is dead, is dead and buried . . . . . . is dead and buried.
~ Jean Genet
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
~ Jean Genet
En 1915 je suis parti sans croire à la patrie. J'ai eu tort. Non pas de ne pas croire : de partir.
~ Jean Giono
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
~ Jean Piaget
Can we go now, or should we load up Banjo and one of the cows?" he said. "Or the hen that lays double-yolked eggs?
~ Jean Thesman
Once she'd gone, nobody spoke, except for his father who asked what was on next. Blake said it was Newhart.
~ Jean Thompson
She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave
~ Jeanette Winterson
And then Luca leans close and whispers something in the coyote's ear. And the man reaches up and takes Luca in his arms, and Luca folds himself around the coyote's neck, and they embrace for a long moment, and then they turn away from each other quickly, and Luca ascends the steps. Lydia watches through the window as El Chacal lifts his pack from one of the lawn chairs, hoists his replenished water supplies, and heads back into the desert.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Ain't no one leavin' this party 'til I do.
~ Jeanne G'Fellers
There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.
~ Jeff thomas
Llevada por Francisco Rosas, Julia salió del atrio, sin oír
~ Elena Garro
que se quedó pensativa en su puerta, mirando cómo se alejaban, en
~ Elena Garro
E, então, o tempo, o tempo verdadeiramente físico, não se orienta pelo relógio; ele é antes, e no mais das vezes, uma função da atmosfera na qual transcorre. É, portanto, extraordinariamente difícil determinar, mesmo aproximadamente, quando um se juntou de fato à companhia dos outros, quando o outro se levantou e quando o terceiro realmente partiu.
~ Elias Canetti