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Quotes About Departure

I'm at that place I grew up to leave.
~ Adrian C. Louis
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
~ Adrienne Rich
Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.
~ Shahid Khan
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
~ Desmond Tutu
Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.
~ Nina Arianda
No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.
~ Pitigrilli
We who of old left the booming surge of the Aegean lie here in the mid-plain of Ecbatana: farewell, renowned Eretria once our country; farewell, Athens nigh to Euboea; farewell, dear sea.
~ Plato
Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.
~ Portuguese Proverb
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
~ Portuguese Proverb
What else is life but always bidding farewell?
~ Poul Anderson
Dia telah tinggalkan aku, entah untuk sementara entah tidak.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Semua harus datang karena panggilanku. Semua harus pergi karena usiranku.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Il y a toujours quelque chose de solennel dans un départ, même quand on se quitte pour peu de temps.
~ Prosper Mérimée
partir du jour où il s'est rendu à
~ R De Roussy De Sales
Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
~ R.L. LaFevers
Chanakya says that a guest is important only if his stay is short. If without hesitation or shamelessly he extends his stay, then it is graceless, as a prostitute leaves a poor man, the subjects leave a defeated king and birds leave a dead tree, similarly, a guest must quickly leave after having and praising the food, offered to him.
~ R.P. Jain
Chanakya says that as a Brahmin moves on after receiving offerings, a student goes his way after completing his education and animals abandon a burnt forest, similarly, a man should quickly leave the abode taken up for attaining his objective, after achieving his objective. This will indicate his wisdom.
~ R.P. Jain
The corpse looks to me like a suit left behind.
~ Rabih Alameddine
In the early pages of his gorgeous novel Sepharad, Antonio Munoz Molina writes: "Only those of us who have left know what the city used to be like and are aware of how much it has changed; it's the people who stayed who can't remember, who seeing it day after day have been losing that memory, allowing it to be distorted, although they think they're the one who remained faithful, and that we, in a sense, are deserters.
~ Rabih Alameddine
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
One clings desperately to some vain hope, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and then it breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers! I bow to you all and take my departure. Here I give back the keys of my door---and I give up all claims to my house. I only ask for last kind words from you. We were neighbours for long, but I received more than I could give. Now the day has dawned and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out. A summons has come and I am ready for my journey.
~ Rabindranath Tagore