Quotes About Departure
When McCandless came into his world, however, the boy undermined the old man's meticulously constructed defenses. Franz relished being with McCandless, but their burgeoning friendship also reminded him how lonely he'd been. The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it. When McCandless departed as suddenly as he'd arrived, Franz found himself deeply and unexpectedly hurt.
~ Jon Krakauer
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He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.
~ Jon Krakauer
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He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.
~ Jon Krakauer
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cuando Gill salió del coche aquella mañana tan fría, consciente de su ausencia definitiva, la invadió la mayor sensación de soledad que recordaba haber tenido nunca.
~ Jonathan Coe
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Y se fue. Y ella se convirtió en mejor lectora.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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She, for her part, was accustomed to my leavings and didn't complain too much. But she still felt about me what she'd always felt, which was what I wouldn't really feel about her until after she was gone. I hate it when Daylight Savings Time starts while you're here, she told me while we were driving to the airport, because it means I have an hour less with you.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn't come back
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
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The author's economy, and happy life, among the Houyhnhnms. His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations. The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from the country. He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits. He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture. I
~ Jonathan Swift
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Si para todo hay término y hay tasa y última vez y nunca más y olvido ¿quién nos dirá de quién en esta casa, sin saberlo, nos hemos despedido?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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The goal is oblivion. I have arrived early. from 15 Coins
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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The truth is that we all live by leaving behind
~ Jorge Luis Borgesis Borges
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shuffled off this mortal coil.
~ Joseph Campbell
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TTFN Ta Ta For Now!
~ A.A. Milne
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
~ A.E. Housman
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years.' She kissed him good bye on the station platform, a long and passionate kiss. Now she was a civilian it did not matter if anyone saw them.
~ A.R. Davey
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I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.
~ Ágota Kristóf
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I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.
~ Abe Lemons
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Life doesn't walk away, we do.
~ Abhishek Shukla
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all he could hear was their running, fading footsteps.
~ Adam Blade
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That's how he'd thought of most people—appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if by flood.
~ Adam Johnson
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Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
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