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Quotes About Departure

Yeah, well my walking body abandoned me and flew south
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
~ Dorothy Parker
mon tour viendra de quitter la scène.
~ Douglas Kennedy
Working women seemed "brazen," even to those like Lila Chunn who understood and encouraged necessary departures from tradition.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
~ Richard Linklater
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.
~ Richard Crashaw
Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.
~ Karen Kingsbury
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
~ Seneca the Younger
Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
~ Samuel Beckett
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
~ Isabel Wilkerson
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
~ Andre Gide
I have told you the story, and while I have been telling it, Robin - the biggest-hearted and the most faithful friend man ever had, has gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds, where I know I shall find him waiting for me.
~ Jim Corbett
Death does not tidy up or sweep as it departs. We all of us leave traces other than the ashes and the bones.
~ Jim Crace
The Fourth Wiseman delivered his gift and slipped away.
~ Jim Dodge
I nod to say good-bye, and I almost believe she's nodding back at me. But she's not. It's me nodding. Me nodding to her, and to myself. When I stand, I see the shape of my legs reflected in the stone. I step backward. Backward. Backward until I can't see my image there anymore. Then I turn and walk away.
~ Jo Knowles
I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.
~ Joan D. Vinge
And this young man, where is he?" "He had to go to his aunt's house." "Why? He didn't like the cooking here?
~ Joann Sfar
I wonder if sometimes you can miss something so much it breaks you, and still be happy you left.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
You'll all set sail, as you should, and leave your mother and me here. It's a tale as old as time.
~ Ann Napolitano
But even a day out of heaven has to end.
~ Ann Nolan Clark
Sometimes it take courage to leave.
~ Ann Rinaldi
Sentirai il tuono e mi rammenterai, penserai: desiderava la bufera... Sarà una striscia di cielo accesa di rosso, e il cuore come allora in fiamme. E ciò accadrà nel giorno moscovita in cui abbandonerò per sempre la città, muoverò verso il bramato riparo, lasciando in mezzo a voi ancora la mia ombra.
~ Anna Achmatova
If we were in a proper relationship and I did live with him and was officially committed to him, first thing I would have to do would be to leave.
~ Anna Burns
Den Kummer dessen, der das Unglück auslöst. Diejenigen, die bleiben, bedauert man, die tröstet man. Aber diejenigen, die gehen?
~ Anna Gavalda