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Quotes About Departure

the light of our home also was to depart to her husband's house, and leave her father's in the shadow.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
20 Día tras día él llega y se va. Ve y dale esta flor de mi pelo, amigo. Si te pregunta quién se la envía, no se lo digas, te lo ruego, pues si viene, es para volverse a ir. Está sentado bajo un árbol, en el suelo. Prepárale un lecho de pétalos y hojas, amigo. Sus ojos están tristes y su mirada pesa en mi corazón. Nunca dice qué piensa, sólo viene y se va.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was being left behind.
~ Rachel Cusk
I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone.
~ Rachel Gibson
One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.
~ Rachel Gibson
What scares you?" She looked into his eyes and said, "That I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone.
~ Rachel Gibson
Keeping my smile raised like a shield between us, I curtsied and quit the room.
~ Rachel Hartman
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
~ Seneca
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at the time, and it's the way he prefers to split, anyway. I always knew I would return to him. He's been my favorite from the start. Readers have long asked what happened to him, but I had to wait for his story to come to me on its own.
~ Lauren Kate
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
~ Bruce Catton
I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.
~ Colm Toibin
When you have to do small talk, you know, 'Hello, how are you?' after that, I don't know what to do. I go, 'OK, then,' and walk away.
~ Naomi Osaka
I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
When I left Iraq for the last time in 2008, it was the first time I left the country better off than when I arrived.
~ Seth Moulton
This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
~ Charles Frohman
I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
~ Eva Braun
To actually leave your home and somebody you have probably been with a long time is very brave.
~ Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
I was very young when I left Brazil.
~ Thiago Silva
When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.
~ Harry Redknapp
I would have loved to stay in Buffalo and all that.
~ Ryan Fitzpatrick
There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.
~ Noel Edmonds
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
~ Eric Burdon